Introduction:
Water treatment is the process that improves the quality of water to make it more acceptable for the specific end-use. The water treatment plants remove the contaminants & undesirable components from the water by means of various physical & chemical processes to make it usable for the end-use. These plants are widely used all over the world for drinking water treatment, industrial water treatment & municipal wastewater treatment (or sewage water treatment). The process of Pump station CFD analysis involved in these plants are filtration, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, aeration, biological treatment, disinfection and advanced treatment.
Application of CFD:
Mechartes provides the engineering services in drinking water, industrial water & municipal wastewater treatment plants using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Pump house sump CFD analysis to design & verify the various processes involved and equipment used in these plants. The typical applications are listed below:
• Water intake & outlet channel facilities for flow assessment & optimization of flow splitting
• Pumping stations to verify the pump intake hydraulic performance
• Flow distribution through filters & screens inside the tanks & channels
• Analysis of Sedimentation tanks to verify & improve the flow profiles and to study the sludge settlement by wet well CFD modeling
• Analysis of Coagulation & Flocculation to verify the process of floc formation
• Residence time distribution (RTD) CFD analysis of water treatment basins & retention tanks
• Analysis of Aeration process to verify the dissolved oxygen concentration in the aeration tanks and activated sludge systems
• Analysis of mixing process in mixing tanks to study the performance & optimize the mixing process
• Analysis of primary clarifiers, secondary clarifiers and digesters
