Recently, Seoul city has tried to modify and upgrade the existing facilities and utilities and to improve the established water treatment plants, instead of application of a new treatment process. These efforts have finally lowered the turbidity of finished water below 0.1NTU. Small lab-scale and pilot-scale experiments have been conducted and they have provided optimum parameters for the design and operation of drinking water treatment plants. In addition, quantitative and/or trace analysis technologies developed for monitoring water quality of effluent from unit processes and automization of facilities, have contributed to the improvement of turbidity in drinking water. The Kueui water treatment plant, one of the drinking water treatment plants in Seoul, produces finished water with 0.08 NTU. It results from the operators' continuous endeavor to lower the turbidity in a scale of 0.01 NTU. The data for 12 months indicated that turbidity of settled water was less than 1.16 NTU and that of filtered water was less than 0.12 NTU for 95% of the period. Sedimentation basins and sand filters satisfy the recommended turbidity criteria, 2 NTU and 0.3 NTU, respectively. Also Kueui water treatment plant has focused on the control of organic matters to decrease in DBPs and on the removal of microorganisms.
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December 01 2002
Modifications of unit processes for finished water quality improvement at the Kueui water treatment plant in Seoul Available to Purchase
M.J. Yu;
M.J. Yu
*Faculty of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul, 90 Junnong-dong Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-743, Korea
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H.M. Cho;
H.M. Cho
**Seoul Development Institute, Yeajang-dong San 4-5 Joung-ku, Seoul 100-250, Korea
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J.Y. Koo;
J.Y. Koo
*Faculty of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul, 90 Junnong-dong Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-743, Korea
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I.S. Han;
I.S. Han
*Faculty of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul, 90 Junnong-dong Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-743, Korea
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E.M. Gwon;
E.M. Gwon
***Department of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology, Myongji University, Seoul, Korea
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H.K. Oh
H.K. Oh
*Faculty of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul, 90 Junnong-dong Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-743, Korea
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Water Supply (2002) 2 (5-6): 193–199.
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M.J. Yu, H.M. Cho, J.Y. Koo, I.S. Han, E.M. Gwon, H.K. Oh; Modifications of unit processes for finished water quality improvement at the Kueui water treatment plant in Seoul. Water Supply 1 December 2002; 2 (5-6): 193–199. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/ws.2002.0169
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