K CONSULTATION | design and engineering consultancy firm based in India for Water Treatment Plants and Solid-Liquid Separation

Kcon PMC Pvt. Ltd. is a 25 years old design and engineering consultancy firm based in India. We specialize in water treatment systems and solid-liquid separation. We work in private, industrial, municipal and government sectors. Our founders have a cumulative experience of seventy years in this field.

We have to our credit about 600 plants around the world

A new simplified treatment plant at Songad
S.J. Kardile,
Consulting engineer, K Consultation, Nasik Road, Maharashtra

Introduction:

The United Nations organization has decided to cover 100 percent Urban and rural population of the world for providing protected water supply schemes during the international decade for drinking water supply and sanitation. The conventional methods of providing slow sand, rapid sand and pressure filters are rather costly for construction and also difficult for maintenance particularly in rural areas. The skilled labor and supervision are required for the construction as well as maintenance of the conventional filter plants. Due to these difficulties many towns and villages particularly in the developing countries cannot afford to adopt the same for their water supply schemes. An intensive search is therefore going all over the world for the development of simple and cheap water treatment plants using new technology. The Songad Treatment Plant in Gujarat which has been constructed and put into operation recently has been designed to meet the demands of this challenging problem. The purpose of this paper is to explain the new features which have been adopted in the design of this unconventional treatment plant.