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Removal Efficiency of Cryptosporidium Tracer in Drinking Water Treatment Process  

Lee, Shun-Hwa (Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Kim, Yun-Hee (Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers / v.28, no.12, 2006 , pp. 1304-1309 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, removal efficiencies of treatment processes with C. tracer which is similar to the characteristics of Cryptosporidium were investigated. The highest removal efficiency of C. tracer was 97.16% when the input dose of PACI(Poly aluminium chloride, $Al_2O_3$(10%)) was 10 mg/L. The higher turbidity and SS removal efficiencies were, the more C. tracer cohesion efficiency increased. Also when pH of the raw water was high, removal efficiency of C. tracer increased. As the correlationship($R^2$) between effluent turbidity after coagulation-precipitation and removal efficiency of C. tracer was 0.9506, removal efficiency of Cryptosporidium could be evaluated by effluent turbidity after coagulation-precipitation. Also the range of C. tracer removal efficiency by sand filtration was $94.00{\sim}95.83%$ and the correlationship($R^2$) between effluent turbidity after filtration and removal efficiency of C. tracer was 0.8704. Therefore, when filtration-effluent turbidity is good under the optimized coagulation condition, removal efficiencies of Cryptosporidium by coagulation-precipitation, sand rapid filtration and sand rapid filtration after coagulation-precipitation are estimated as 1.55 log(97.16%), 1.38 log(95.83%) and 2.31 log(99.51%) respectively.
Keywords
Cryptosporidium; Tracer; Turbidity; Coagulation; Sedimentation; Filtration;
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