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

One year Observations on Filtration Plant at Ramtek,
Near Nagpur.

J.N. Kardile, M.E. (P.H.) A.M.I.E. Research Officer,
Maharashtra Engineering Research Institute, Nasik-4.

The filtration plant at Ramtek, near Nagpur has been designed utilizing new basic objective of developing a simple and cheap filter for rural areas and small towns. In this plant, gravel bed pre-filter has been provided in place of the rapid sand filter. The plant consisting of two such units, has been designed for the pumping rate of 1, 00,000 liters per hour with the capacity of 2.4 MLD (say 0.5 mgd). The technical details re: The plants, designed and constructed by the author in the year 1973, were published in paper presented at the 6th Annual convention of Indian Water Works Association held at Baroda in Feb. 1974. As stated in the paper, one of the dual media filter bed was run for a higher rate of 9650 lit/sq.m./hour. (215 gallons / sq.ft./hour) from 1-5-1974 for actual plant observations.