Water Treatment Plant

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Water Treatment Plant

Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, materials and biological contaminants from raw water. The goal is to produce water fit for a specific purpose. Most water is purified for human consumption (drinking water) but water purification may also be designed for a variety of other purposes, including meeting the requirements of medical, pharma, chemical and industrial applications. In general the methods used include physical process such as filtration and sedimentation, biological processes, chemical process such flocculation, chlorination and use of electromagnetic radiation such ultraviolet light. The technologies used for treating the water is highlighted below

    Ultra Filtration (UF) System
    Reverse Osmosis (RO) System
    De-Salination System
    Electro Deionisers
    De-Mineralisers
    Softner Plants
    Filtration Systems

How we Do it

Ultra Filtration (UF) System

Ultra-Filtration membranes typically have pore sizes in the range of 0.01 - 0.10 µm and have a high removal efficiency for bacteria and most viruses, colloids and silt. The introduction of Ultra-Filtration (UF) as a pre-treatment for Colloidal Silica removal, and tertiary treatment for Recycling plant has resulted in several advantages

Typical benefits with an UF system include

Consistently low SDI in the UF filtrate
Significantly reduced RO membrane fouling and cleaning frequency
Extended RO membrane life
Reliable production of high quality water regardless of raw water turbidity
Higher RO membrane flux
Smaller footprints lower land acquisition costs
Lower consumption of operational and cleaning chemicals

Reverse Osmosis (RO) System

Hydroflux offers range of Reverse Osmosis plants to meet industrial and domestic requirements. Hydroflux strictly designs all its systems as per the guidelines of the membrane manufacturers by utilizing the latest generation spiral wound thin film composite polyamide membranes. These membranes have extremely high resistance to fouling and thereby we could offer the best energy savings RO plants to our customers globally.

The Reverse Osmosis units are designed in a compact skid with easy access to monitoring of check points and sample valves. These features come from the extensive field experience of Hydroflux in operating and maintaining the plants spread over entire South India. The standard systems are offered with the manual option and field instruments to monitor the performance and necessary safety interlocks to protect the membranes.

Advanced automation packages with PLC based Scada control system which monitors auto flushing, real time logging etc., and provision for either a wired or a remote communication to other locations. Hydroflux automation packages are user friendly and flexible with respect to data access and data logging. Adequate security features with supervisory control with access codes are also provided.

De-Salination System

Approximately 95% of the world's available water reserves consist of seawater containing salt, which is therefore undrinkable. Many countries of the world are suffering from an acute water shortage. Accordingly, the desalination of sea water and brackish water has gained enormous importance and is now a technically and economically recognised method of obtaining clean drinking water and fresh water for industrial operations.

Generally De-Salination is done by the following process

Reverse osmosis
Thermal desalination
Electrodialysis

Hydroflux supplies Sea Water desalination RO plants in differing sizes for various types of raw water such as sea- and brackish water and industrial effluent. Major attention is paid to economic factors such as chemical consumption, energy recovery, membrane durability and process automation.

Electro Deionisers

Electro deionization process is utilized predominantly for the production of high purity water. EDI is generally used as a post treatment, after a Reverse Osmosis to achieve high purity water. Typically EDI is used to achieve the treated water quality for the following applications

Semi conductor industry production water
Printed circuit board manufacturing
Solar cell manufacturing
Pharma grade water
Vaccines
Parental
Water for Injections

EDI utilizes and operates on the principle of migration of charged ions across a semi-permeable membrane which contains charged resin beds. The migration of membranes is initiated by applying current, by means of cathode and anode. This generates the migration of ions across the oppositely charged membranes. The oppositely charged ions permeate through the charged membranes and collect in the concentrate chamber. A constant flow is maintained in the concentrate chamber to continuously evacuate the ions into the reject stream.

The ultra pure water from the pure water chamber flows out continuously. The reject water is not wasted and is recycled back to the pre-treatment sections.

De-Mineralisers

Hydroflux offers a range of packaged demineraliser units and custom built demineraliser to meet individual customer requirements. Packaged De-Mineralisers comprise of two pressure vessels in MS / FRP filled with Strong Acid Cation and Strong Base Anion resin respectively. All packaged plants are skid mounted, completely assembled including necessary piping valves, and chemical tanks for regeneration.

Degassifiers

Hydroflux offers a full range of degassers to suit the packaged and custom built demineraliser. Degassers when installed downstream of the cation unit removes the carbon dioxide thereby reducing the load on the downstream unit. This results in cost savings by way of reduced chemical consumption. Standard units comprise of a Tower in mild steel rubber lined / FRP construction along with a blower and transfer pump in stainless steel construction.

Custom Designed DM Plants

To meet specific customer requirements Hydroflux offers de-mineralisers incorporating Weak Acid Cation and Weak Base Anion to handle water containing high amounts of alkalinity, chlorides and sulfates. All DM units are available as a manual, semi-auto or full auto options with PLC based control systems. Automatic systems can be easily upgraded to be linked to client DCS if required.

Mixed Bed Demineralisers

Mixed Bed de-mineralisers are used downstream of the DM unit, to achieve high purity levels in the treated water. Mixed bed units comprise of a single vessel with a mixture of cation and anion resins. The mixed bed units are offered with complete service and regeneration piping, self supporting skid foundation and chemical tanks for regeneration.

Softner Plants

Hydroflux offers a series of pre engineered packaged softeners to meet the needs of small and medium industries. In addition, custom-built softeners are offered for larger requirements. Softeners are available as manual, semi automatic and fully automatic versions to suit client's specifications and requirements.

The water softeners utilize a strong acid cation resin in the Sodium form to exchange the hardness salts in the raw water. All Softeners are offered with complete inbuilt regeneration system and Brine tank. Both co-current and counter-current regeneration options are offered based on the inlet water quality. The typical application are for

Low and medium pressure Boiler feed treatment
Textile dyeing processing
Cooling water treatment
Air conditioning plants
Food processing
Hotels, Hospitals and Laundry
Pharmaceutical

Filtration Systems

Hydroflux offers a wide range of filters to suit various filtration applications. Pressure Vessels with single, dual or multiple media are offered based on the specific requirements of the customer. All filters are available in Manual, Semi Auto or Fully Automatic Options with mono valve for smaller versions and multiple valve control for the larger filters.

Pressure Sand filters

This range of filters utilizes a single type sieved and graded sand based media with graded silex and pebbles as support media. Options are available for the external vessel in fabricated mild steel or FRP. All filters come with custom designed internals to ensure even distribution of incoming water, uniform collection of the filtered water and proper dirt removal during backwashing.

Multi-grade filters

This range of filters utilizes a dual grade of sieved and graded sand based media with graded silex and pebbles as support media. Fabrication options are available for the external vessel either in mild steel or FRP. All filters come with custom designed internals to ensure even distribution of incoming water, uniform collection of the filtered water and proper dirt removal during backwashing.

Dual Media filters

This range of filters utilizes a combination Anthracite, sieved and graded sand based media with graded garnets as support media. Options are available for the external vessel fabricated either in mild steel or FRP. All filters come with specially designed internals to achieve higher filtration velocities and ensure even distribution of incoming water, uniform collection of the filtered water and proper dirt removal during backwashing.

Activated Carbon Filters

Carbon bed media filters are utilized as polishers for residual organics and chlorine removal. Various options are available for the carbon media form the normal Iodine value to higher Iodine value carbon for specialized applications.

Side Stream filters

Side stream filters for circulating water filters come in manual of fully automatic versions for the pressure filters. Gravity based fully automatic filters are offered for very high flow rates, to reduce operator attention for Thermal power Plants, Fertilizer and Refinery applications.

Green sand filters

This range of filters utilizes a dual grade of sieved and graded sand based media in combination with green sand with graded silex and pebbles as support media. Options are available for the external vessel in fabricated mild steel or FRP. All filters come with custom designed internals to ensure even distribution of incoming water, uniform collection of the filtered water, higher and proper dirt removal during backwashing. These filters are ideally suited for municipal and drinking water treatment applications.