ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Comparison of Conventional Water Treatment
and Ultrafiltration Pilot Tests
in the Rozgrund Water Treatment Plant
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Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University
of Technology, Radlinského 11, 810 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
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The Central Slovak Water Company, Partizánska cesta 5, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Submission date: 2023-09-02
Final revision date: 2023-10-31
Acceptance date: 2023-12-26
Online publication date: 2024-04-15
Publication date: 2024-04-18
Corresponding author
Danka Barloková
Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 11, 81005, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2024;33(4):3599-3608
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ABSTRACT
WTP Rozgrund, which was used to treat to the water from Rozgrund reservoir, must have been set
out of operation due to the deteriorated quality of the water and its smell. The aAim of this work was to
perform the pilot-plant tests, with the goal ofaiming to treating water from the reservoir to achieveand
get the compliantying water quality of the water. Conventional water treatment concerning coagulation,
flocculation, and filtration with two different filtration fillings – Filtralite Mono-MultiFine and filter
sand with black-coa material Carboziar – was compared with conventional treatments with filter sand
and Carboziar complemented with filtration through granulated active coal (Norit 830), the ultrafilration
using fully automated equipment with membrane module UA-640 (Microdyn-Nadir), and ultrafiltration
combined with active granulated carbon. Monitored wereas the pH, turbidity, color, alkalinity, CODMn,
TOC, aluminum, number and size of particles, and hydrobiology in the samples of raw and treated
water. Obtained results provided that the two most suitable treatment technologies were the filtration
with double layer filling consisting of sand and antracite combined with filtration via GAU (removal
efficiency of CODMn and turbidity was 90.5% and 85%, respectively) and the ultrafiltration combined
with GAU (82.6% for CODMn and 89% for turbidity removal). Biological activation after the treatment
was not found.