Field testing of a magnesium oxide-lime-calcium chloride hydrochloric acid based filter

Margandan Karunanithi; Rachana Agrawai; Keshaw Singh; Saroj Sharma; Kushal Qanungo; Rajeev Acharya

doi:10.2478/auoc-2013-0009

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Field testing of a magnesium oxide-lime-calcium chloride hydrochloric acid based filter

Ovidius University Annals of Chemistry

Volume 24 (2013): Issue 1 (June 2013)

By: Margandan Karunanithi, Rachana Agrawai, Keshaw Singh, Saroj Sharma, Kushal Qanungo and Rajeev Acharya

Open Access

|Oct 2013

Abstract

Field trials of a MgO-Lime-CaCl₂-HCl filter has been carried out to test the operation of the filter during actual user conditions. Water quality parameters like pH, TDS, Ca, Mg hardness, total alkalinity, SO₄^-2, Cl- were found to be within permissible limits in the water obtained from the filter except nitrate, whose concentration was above permissible limits in the raw ground water itself. The dosage of HCl had to be adjusted and fixed in the field trials. In comparison to the laboratory trials conducted earlier it was found that during the field trials there was on an average 6% reduction in the fluoride removal efficiency of the filter. Operational user problems of filter were found and were addressed in the village.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auoc-2013-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2286-038X | Journal ISSN: 1583-2430

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Language: English

Page range: 43 - 50

Published on: Oct 20, 2013

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Keywords:

magnesium oxide,water quality parameters,

removal fluoride efficiency

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© 2013 Margandan Karunanithi, Rachana Agrawai, Keshaw Singh, Saroj Sharma, Kushal Qanungo, Rajeev Acharya, published by Ovidius University of Constanta
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