The purpose of this study is to study the effect of water quality and quantity of raw water on advanced and conventional treatment processes. We are using data of water quality and quantity to investigate difference of quality of treated water in water treatment plant. Finally we compared items of ware quality ( turbidity, free residual chlorine, total hardness, conductivity, pH, NH3-N) whether passed the Taiwan¡¦s national standard of drinking water or not. We are hoping the treated drinking water will all fit the goal of high quality. Results show that high variation of turbidity was found from May to October in every year. The high turbidity was frequently occurred from 9.9% (2008) to 39.5% (2010). It indicated the worsen trend of water quality of raw water is increased yearly. In all monitoring items of water quality, turbidity, conductivity, NH3-N was greatly influenced in seasons from June to September. The rest items had no significant affect by season¡¦s variation. The removal efficiency in items of water quality of advanced and conventional WTP we found there were high value at hardness and TDS with 49.3% and 43.3% respectively. These items, water quality of treated water (such as turbidity, free residual chlorine, total hardness, conductivity, pH, NH3-N), were all pass the current drinking standard in Taiwan ( i.e., turbidity¡Õ2NTU¡BTDS¡Õ500mg/L¡B6.0¡ÕpH¡Õ8.5¡B0.2mg/L¡Õfree residual chlorine¡Õ1.0mg/L¡BNH3-N¡Õ0.1mg/L ).

L'objectif de cette étude est de développer un procédé hybride qui combine à lacoagulation, la floculation et le procédé de flottation dans un hydroclone pour réaliser letraitement de l'eau. Le développement sert à déterminer la caractérisationhydrodynamique ainsi que les conditions optimales pour réaliser le traitement de l'eau.L'étude de caractérisation hydrodynamique est réalisée à l’aide d’une simulationnumérique (Computational Fluid Dynamics). Le travail expérimental a été réalisé à l’aidede la technique dite de l'échographie Doppler afin d’étudier l'hydrodynamique. Lesrésultats ont servi à valider la technique expérimentale « méthode de la goutte d’huile » et les connaissances de base expliquant les phénomènes du procédé hybride. La technique de diffraction du laser est utilisée pour déterminer la taille des micro-bulles ainsi que les paramètres qui affectent leur taille.Le travail expérimental sur le développement d'un pilot hybride est étudié avec del'eau synthèse et de l'eau naturelle. L'objectif de cette étude est d'appliquer ce procédéhybride pour le traitement de l'eau. Différents paramètres tels que les caractéristiques del'eau brute, le type et la concentration de coagulant et de floculant, la fraction de l'air et ledébit d'entrée, ont été modifiés à plusieurs reprises afin d'en déterminer les effets sur leprocédé hybride / The aim of this study is to develop a hybrid process which combines withcoagulation, floculation and flotation process in a hydroclone for water treatmentprocess. The development is for characterization the hydrodynamics of this process andto find the optimum condition for water treatment process.The hydrodynamics characterization study is carried out by the numericalsimulation (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and experimental work by Dopplerultrasound velocimetry technique to study the hydrodynamics for the further research.The results are used for validating the oil droplet experimental technique and to be thebasis knowledge to explain the phenomena in the hybrid process. Laser diffractiontechnique is involved for determining the micro bubbles size and also study on theparameter affects to the size. The experimental work of a developed hybrid pilot plant is studied with synthesisraw water and natural river water. The objective of this study is to apply this hybridprocess for the water treatment. The parameters have been varied in many operatingconditions to indicate the separation and the water treatment phenomena such as rawwater characteristic, coagulant - floculant type and concentration, air fraction and inletflow rate

In this research, the adsorptive capacities of kenaf, peat moss, hay, and peanut hulls were evaluated for the removal of TNT and 2,4-DCP from aqueous solutions. Adsorbent loading capacities determined by batch studies were verified by continuous column experiments. It was found that the adsorption capacity of the candidate adsorbents were significantly lower than granular activated carbon (GAC). The impact of surface modification techniques, such as surface oxidation, were evaluated to study the effect on adsorption capacity. At lower equilibrium concentrations of the adsorbate (less than 10 ppb), surface oxidation by ozone showed an increase in the adsorption capacity. The same trend was not observed with peroxone and ultrasound pretreatment. The adsorbent requirement for treating water contaminated with TNT and 2,4-DCP were calculated based on the adsorptive capacity of the adsorbents. Though the adsorbent requirements for the candidate adsorbents were considerably higher than granular activated carbon, the adsorbent requirement costs for most of the candidate adsorbents tested were competitive when compared to GAC costs.

Environmental impact of fullerenes such as C60 and carbon nanotubes is of great concern due to the projection for widespread application and mass production in near future. Understanding their fate in the aqueous phase is prerequisite for accurate assessment of their ecotoxicological and human health effects upon unintended release to environment. This research addresses outstanding questions related to the behavior of fullerenes in natural and engineered water environments. Specifically, this research focuses on investigating: 1) the stability of fullerenes in the natural water, 2) interaction between fullerenes and natural organic matter (NOM), and 3) treatability of water stable fullerenes by conventional water treatment process. The experimental results suggested that NOM readily interacts with fullerenes leading to the formation of water stable fullerene suspensions. The adsorptive interaction between NOM and fullerenes was largely affected by NOM characteristics as well as water quality parameters. The fate of fullerenes in water environments was also greatly influenced by the types of fullerenes (e.g., single walled carbon nanotubes, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, and C60) and the pathway they are introduced into the aqueous phase. These water stable fullerene suspensions were found to be relatively well removed by conventional water treatment processes while the presence of NOM could negatively impact the removal efficiency. The outcomes of this study collectively imply that the dispersion of fullerenes in the natural water can occur beyond the level predicted only based on their extreme hydrophobicity and NOM plays a critical role on the fate of fullerenes both in natural and engineered water environments.

There is a current lack of accurate tools to determine the concentration of cyanobacteria in situ.  Besides, cyanobacterial blooms have to be carefully monitored in reservoirs as they are more frequent because of climate change and can lead to potential released of toxins, along with other components. This project investigates the possible use of fluorescent probes to measure the concentration of different types of organic matter released by the algae. Three different species of toxic cyanobacteria were chosen to carry out this research as they are representative of the local harmful blooms found across Australia. Furthermore, the efficiency of two different chemicals (powdered activated carbon, also known as PAC, and alum) used in drinking water treatment plants were investigated, in order to determine a method for automatic dosage adjustment in water treatment plant. The organic matter was characterized by LC-OCD and fluorescence spectroscopy and statistical analysis such as principal component analysis was performed on the generated data. General characterization of the different species was firstly performed and globally, similar comportments were observed among the three cyanobacteria species. There is indeed a general increase in the release of organic material throughout the cell’s growth phase. Results from the jar tests showed that PAC mainly targeted humic-like substances and building blocks, which are middle size particles. The average removal rate obtained was 40µg/L per mg/L of PAC added into the water. Therefore, there is indication that the decreased efficiency for the removal of the taste and odor compounds observed in certain plants can be partially attributed to direct competition of organic matter adsorption onto PAC instead of a blockage of the PAC pores by larger particles. On the other hand, alum was able to remove large particles, particularly biopolymers and also humic-substances. However, a great increase of the low molecular weight molecules at very high doses of alum was seen, which suggest that a too high dose of alum is toxic for the algae cells. Based on the bench scale testing the recommended dose of 50 mg/L seems to be optimum for the studied water treatment plant. Specific ultraviolet absorbance and dissolved organic carbon measurements were also investigated and good correlations were found between the concentration of humic-like substances and absorbance, confirming that they are good measure to assess the content of organic matter in the water. However, as the slope coefficient of the linear trend varied between the species, it was not possible to obtain a common conversion factor for all the species. Finally, one fluorophore was found in common to all the samples and is characterized by the excitation-emission wavelength: 240/440 nm. Correlations with the chromatography’s results were investigated and this component seems to match the biopolymers and humic-like substances concentrations. Furthermore, its intensity decreases continuously with the addition of PAC whereas a drop was observed at the lower doses of alum. In regards on these findings, a method for automatic chemicals dosing from the fluorescence measures was proposed. / Detta examensarbete handlar om hur dricksvattenkvalitet kan kontrolleras och övervakas i vattenreningsverk. Nu existerar  inte någon exakt metod för att bestämma koncentrationen av cyanobakterier i vatten då det finns många olika arter. Men det är viktigt att övervaka algers tillväxt in i vattenreningsverk för de kan släppa ut skadliga ämnen till dricksvattnet. De tre arter som studerats i detta projekt är giftiga. Det organiska materialet i råvattnet kan också blockera membranporer eller leda till n biprodukter, som är cancerframkallande. Till sist konkurrerar några organiska substansen med smak- och luktföreningar för adsorptionsställena hos det pulverformiga aktiverade kolet. Därför är smaken och luktföreningarna inte väl borttagna, vilket leder till kundernas klagomål. Cyanobakterier måste övervakas noggrant.                            För att bestämma biologisk och kemisk egenskap hos vatten används flera tekniker för närvarande. I examensarbetet har undersökningar med vätskekromatografi och fluorescensteknik företagits. Kromatografi användes för att klassificera den organiska substansen i mindre grupper: biopolymerer, humus substanser, byggstenar och neutralmolekyler med låg molekylvikt (LMVN). Statistisk analys med R, inklusive huvudkomponentanalys företogs på insamlade data. Fluorescensdata registrerades också och visas i en excitationsutsläppsmatris.                            Experimenten reproducerade en behandlingsprocess och undersökte effektiviteten hos två kemikalier: pulveriserat aktivt kol (PAK) och alun. Resultaten visade att humusämnen   och dess byggstenar var väl borttagna av PAK medan även biopolymerer och humusämnen var väl bortagna av alun. Emellertid var en för hög dos av alun skadlig eftersom det ledde till en ökad frisättning av LMVN. I synnerhert kunde PAK ta bort 40µg/L av både humusämnen och dess byggstenar per mg/L av PAK tillagd. Det föreslår att de är de viktigaste konkurrenterna och att endast direkt konkurrens för adsorptionsställena sker. Om det fanns blockeringsfenomen, skulle det också finnas en minskning för biopolymererna. Den optimala doseringen av alun som bestämdes för det undersökta vattenreningsverket var 50 mg/L. Det kunde ta bort 60-70% av biopolymerer och 40-50% av humusämnen.                            Specifik ultraviolett absorbans och fluorescens registrerades. Båda visade riktigt bra korrelationer med humusämnen, vilket gör de till bra verktyg för att bedöma vattenkvaliteten. Men det kräver fortfarande att arten av cyanobakterie urskiljs eftersom koefficientens lutningar var olika. De kan därför vara ett verktyg för att mäta koncentrationen av organisk material, men arten måste vara känd. Fluorescencedata visade en topp vid 440 nm. En parallellfaktoranalys utfördes på data och endast en komponent hittades gemensam i alla prover. Därför studerades den maximala fluorescensintensiteten hos denna komponent. Å ena sidan kunde vi observera en kontinuerlig minskning av intensiteten när PAK tillsattes. Det är därför möjligt att veta hur man justerar den kemiska doseringen från fluorescensintensiteterna. I slutet av examensarbetet föreslås en metod för automatisk kemisk dosering. Fluorescensprober kan ännu inte exakt indikera cellkoncentrationen. Men med flera sonder som riktar sig till olika våglängder kan de redan vara till stor hjälp för styrning vid vattenverk.