Evaluation of common design criteria and water quality for newly conventional construction WTP in Iraq

Dissertant

Salman, Havan Hasan

Thesis advisor

Khayyun, Thair Sharif

University

University of Technology

Faculty

-

Department

Department of Building and Construction Engineering

University Country

Iraq

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2013

English Abstract

Recently appeared a campaign to build conventional water treatment plants in Iraq after a break period continued for more than two decades, so is imperative to find ways to evaluate these plants by identification the treatment process’s construction details and their efficiency to produce drinking water, by comparing its quality with the international standards parameters that agreed and approved by the Iraqi Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works.Four water treatment plants were chosen for the purpose of evaluation, and these plants were; Al- Nasiriyah WTP in The-Qar province, Al-Mishkhab WTP and Al-Manathra WTP in Al-Najaf province, which were operated on January 2011 and Al- Daghara WTP in Al- Qaddissiya province that has been operated on august 2011.The selection process on the basis that at least there were six months operated period available for appropriate assessment, as happened in the Al- Daghara WTP.Adopted removing turbidity efficiency as a key element in the performance assessment of the plant’s units ,through laboratory’s recorded data analysis for each plant for the first operational period this include analysis of available records examination data of daily produced water for one year of the first operational life of the plants .

Then measuring the quality of each unit’s out^ow in each plant and comparing it with the standard specifications.

Other physical parameters like pH, TDS and EC were also measured, because that these elements were daily measured in these plants and almost southern plants in Iraq to control produced water, to have more reality in our evaluation.The previous steps led us to identify weaknesses points as guideline to search of rezones that led to the deviation values from the standard results by identifying and comparing the construction specifications and the state of treatment units with the standard designs.

Although of recently construction of these WTPs, but it could be noticed that there is a decline in the efficiency of performance of these basins throughout the study period in addition the fundamental differences in standards design of the basins in the Al- Nasiriyah, Al-Mishkhab and Al-Daghara WTPs and mismatch in the operational standards and maintenance required for all plants, especially Al-Manathra WTP.The results of the study suggest the need to establish regular performance evaluation system to the water treatment plants in Iraq to identify potential and existing problems so that correction action could be immediately taken and to ensure the safe cleaning water to the community.

Main Subjects

Engineering & Technology Sciences (Multidisciplinary)

Topics

• Iraq
• Water treatment plants

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-417888