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

Case Studies
Manchar, Dist. Pune, Maharashtra

Introduction:

The existing water treatment plant at village Manchar (50 km from Pune, on Nashik highway) was constructed in 1990 by Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP), then the statutory body of Govt. of Maharashtra. The capacity of existing plant was 2.88 MLD and it consisted of a Receiving Chamber, mixing channel, Horizontal flow settling tanks (2 compartments) and two rapid sand gravity filters. The plant was constructed in UCR masonry with wall thickness of about 3 ft at the bottom. No proper mixing and flocculation facilities were provided in the plant. The filter beds had stopped functioning as the media had got carried away.

In 2002 it was decided to increase the capacity of water supply scheme up to 3.84 MLD (160 cum/hr). The existing settling tank of size 4.8m x 13.5m (2 compartments) was retrofitted with tube settlers. Each compartment was augmented to produce 1.92 MLD water. The outlet zone of settling tank (4.8m x 3.6m) was converted in tube settling zone by constructing a RCC partition wall. The surface loading provided was 5000 lph/sqm. The tube modules consisting of tubes 50mm x 50mm and 600 mm length were supported by installing beams of structural steel. Collection troughs were provided at the top to collect the clarified water.