Drinking Water Treatment and Disinfection
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Drinking Water Treatment – Chapter 25
Class Objectives
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Be able to define the possible components of a water
treatment train and their functions
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Be able to differentiate between rapid and slow filtration
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Identify the components of a water treatment train that
are best for a virus. A protozoa.
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List the possible detrimental effects of microbial biofilms
in water distribution systems
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Differentiate between dissolved organic carbon and
assimable organic carbon
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Describe the AOC test
Where does drinking
water come from?
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Rivers
Streams
Lakes
Aquifers
Drinking water treatment
processes
• Water treatment processes provide barriers between the
consumer and waterborne disease
• One or more of these treatment processes is called a
treatment process train
Typical Water Treatment Process Trains
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Chlorination
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Filtration (sand or coal)
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In-Line Filtration
involves a coagulation step (additive
that allows aggregation of
suspended solids, e.g., alum, ferric
sulfate, and ferric chloride,
polyelectrolytes)
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Direct Filtration
involves a flocculation step where
the water is gently stirred to
increase particle collision thereby
forming larger particles
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Conventional Treatment
involves a sedimentation step which
is the gravitational settling of
suspended particles
Filtration Processes Used
• Rapid filtration
– used in United States
– fast filtration rates through media (sand or anthracite)
– backwashing needed
• Slow sand filtration
– common in United Kingdom and Europe
– slow filtration rates through media (sand and gravel)
– removal of biological layer needed
– higher removal rates for all microorganisms
Coagulation, Sedimentation, Filtration: Typical Microbial Removal
Efficiencies and Effluent Quality
Organisms
Coagulation and
sedimentation
Rapid filtration
(% removal)
(% removal)
Slow sand
filtration
(% removal)
Total coliforms
74–97
50–98
>99.999
Fecal coliforms
76–83
50–98
>99.999
Enteric viruses
88–95
10–99
>99.999
Giardia
58–99
97–99.9
>99
90
99–99.9
99
Cryptosporidium
Removal efficiency is dependent on microbial type:
• Giardia and Cryptosporidium
– filtration is best
• large size
• resistant cyst and oocyst
• Enteric viruses
– disinfection is ultimate barrier
– filtration and coagulation also help via adsorption to particles
• dependent on surface charge of virus
Water Distribution Systems
Treated drinking water may go through miles of pipe to reach
a consumer. The quality of the water is impacted by several
things:
Dissolved organic compounds in finished drinking water is
responsible for:
• enhanced chlorine demand
• trihalomethane production
• bacterial colonization of water distribution systems
Increases resistance to disinfection, e.g., E. coli is 2400 X more resistant to
chlorine when attached to surfaces
Increases frictional resistance of fluids
Increases taste and odor problems, e.g., H2S production
Can result in colored water (iron and manganese oxidizing bacteria)
Can cause regrowth of coliform bacteria
Can cause growth of pathogenic bacteria, e.g., Legionella
Bacterial growth in distribution systems is influenced by:
• Concentration of biodegradable organic matter
• Water temperature
• Nature of the pipes
• Disinfectant residual
• Detention time within distribution system
How do you determine biodegradable organic carbon in a water
distribution system?
One way is to determine Assimilable Organic Carbon (AOC)
• This test is used to determine amount of organic carbon
capable of being oxidized by microbes
• Measurements of bacterial activity in the test sample are
determined over time by plate counts, ATP, turbidity, or direct
cell counts
AOC Test
• Performed with a single bacterial species, Spirillum NOX or Pseudomonas
fluorescens P-17
• A water sample is pasteurized by heat to kill the indigenous microflora and then
inoculated with the test bacterium in stationary phase
• Growth is monitored (7 to 9 days) until stationary phase is reached
• Growth is determined and compared to standard growth on acetate (AOC
concentrations are then reported as acetate-carbon equivalents)
AOC can be calculated as follows:
AOC (μg carbon/liter) = (Nmax x 1000)/Y
Nmax = CFU/ml
Y = yield coefficient in CFU/μg carbon
where:
When using P. fluorescens strain P-17, Y = 4.1 x 106 CFU/μg acetate-carbon
Thus, if the final yield of the test organism is 5 x 106 CFU/ml after 9 days of
incubation:
AOC = 5 x 106 CFU/ml x 1000 ml/L = 1.22 μg acetate-carbon equivalents/liter
4.1 x 106 CFU/μg acetate carbon
Comparison of Concentrations of DOC and AOC in Various Water Samples
Dissolved organic
carbon
(mg carbon/L)
Assimilable organic
carbon (mg carbon/L)
River Lek
6.8
0.062–0.085
River Meuse
4.7
0.118–0.128
Brabantse Diesbosch
4.0
0.08–0.103
Lake Yssel, after open storage
5.6
0.48–0.53
River Lek, after bank filtration
1.6
0.7–1.2
Aerobic groundwater
0.3
<0.15
Source of water