Diseño de una planta de potabilización doméstica, para producción de 75 l/día de implementación en países en vías de desarrollo

Abstract

Every day we can see more of the importance of water as an essential element for life and fundamental to healthy ecosystems and socio-economic development of population. Access to clean water is now one of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. This work proposes the design of a water treatment plant based on coagulation and filtration treatments to produce purified water, using simple, low-cost and globally accessible elements. The design has been based on the experimental results obtained from both treatments.With this purpose, coal has been prepared from wood from various plants species that have been used as coadyuvant for coagulation-flocculation. After, jar test and synthetic turbid water has been used to test the optimal amount of carbon need to achieve the minimum turbidity of the water to be treated. Finally, coagulated water filtration tests have been performed to determine its yield, as well as an economic assessment of the designed plant. The designed plant has a capacity of 75 L/day, and represents an innovative, economical and viable alternative to improveg water quality in poor areas of developing countries