Optimización de la planta de tratamiento de agua potable de la parroquia Totoras, cantón Ambato.

Abstract

The Treatment Plant of the Managing Board of Drinking Water and Sewerage Of the Totoras Parish presents a problem in the quality of water that is distributed to Its inhabitants, being several parameters outside the norm INEN 1108: 2006, like: Hardness, calcium, phosphates and fluorine, this is due to an inefficient treatment in the In view of these antecedents, the project of titling aims at Optimize the Treatments plant, establishing a series of physical, Chemical and microbiological, besides proposing alternatives that improve its treatability So that the parameters comply with the established standard.

The methodology used is a simple random sampling of raw water and water Drinkable for two months in different environments such as sunny and rainy days, Verifying that the temporal factor did not affect the physical-chemical properties and Microbiological analysis of the water, the treatability tests were performed with a solution of Polychloride and sodium carbonate, whereby the treatment improves in one 53.59%, at the same time an economic analysis was carried out determining that this Treatment costs by 311.52%, in view of Proposes an alternative treatment using filtration with zeolite activated to 10%.

Therefore, the most appropriate treatment for the optimization of the plant is the Implementation of a zeolite filter, which in addition to complying with the parameters of the Standard reduces the current cost of treatment by 31.4%.