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| Author(s): |
Paulo Luiz Centurione Filho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. , gráficos, ilustrações, tabelas. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2002-03-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Di Bernardo;
Mauricio Luiz Sens;
Bernardo Arantes do Nascimento Teixeira
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| Advisor: | Luiz Di Bernardo |
| Field of knowledge: | Engineering - Sanitary Engineering |
| Indexed in: | Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca da Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos; TESE 1506 |
| Abstract | |
Due to the potentiality of the algae removal by dissolved air flotation, it was proposed the development of an equipment in laboratory scale of easy operation and maintenance, dominated Floteste, integrating the geometric characteristics of the Jarteste equipment in this work. Tests were carried out with synthetic water containing a high concentration of algae (~108 ind/L) and natural water from and eutrophicated source. Besides several improvements in the equipment developed in this study, the rapid mixing can be considered the most important, followed by flocculation and flotation. Also, flotation and sand filtration tests were performed to simulate the floto-filtration technology. The Flotateste vessel have a perforated plate that provides enough loss of load in order to uniform the distribution of saturated water in the bottom. It was concluded, mainly, that the coagulant dose and the pH of coagulation, time and velocity gradient of rapid mixing, time and velocity gradient of flocculation, time and saturation pressure chamber and the amount of air supplied played a significant role in the removal of algae, turbidity, true color and of the number of particles in the two types of water studied. (AU) | |