Industrial Visit to Huda Water Treatment Plant in Gurgaon
19th February, 2019
ASCE DCE Student Chapter has organized one-day industrial visit to "Huda Water Treatment Plant in Gurgaon" on 19th February 2019. 40 students of II & IV semester of Civil Engineering Department along with faculty members Mr. Nitin Goel, Assistant Professor and Mr. Ravinder Kumar, Lab Instructor visited the plant.
Students and faculty members were welcomed by the staff of plant. Later expert lecture were given by some scientist on their work on Water treatment plant to students. Students were assisted by faculty and staff of the department for thorough understanding of the operation of Water Treatment plant.
Students were divided into 2 groups for proper demonstration of various working units of water treatment plant. Firstly students were detailed about intake of water and source of water to be treated.
Gurgaon gets its water from the Yamuna River's Tajewala headworks near Yamunanagar. The water comes through the WYC (Western Yamuna Canal) near Sonepat and then through the 70-km Gurgaon Water Supply (GWS) Canal from Kakaroi village to Basai in Gurgaon. It is designed to carry almost 245 MLD of water at the head at Kakaroi village. Basai water treatment plant comes under Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), HUDA has three water treatment plants (WTPs) at Basai village near Sultanpur. The first was commissioned in 1995, with a capacity of 91 MLD. With the coming of the second plant in 2005, capacity went up to 182 MLD; another WTP of 91 MLD has been added, bringing the total capacity to 20 MGD.
Next students were taken to treatments unit. The various treatments units were as follows:
- Sedimentation: To remove coarse dispersed phase.
- Chlorination: To remove microbes from water.
- Flocculation and Coagulation: Salts of Al (III) and Fe (III) are commonly used as coagulants in water and wastewater treatment.
- Filtration : It is done by three ways namely Slow sand filter, Rapid - sand filter, Multimedia filters.
There were many water quality testing techniques which were told to the students as following: Turbidity, Hardness, Total dissolved solids and Fluoride content.
It was an exciting and unforgettable experience for all to witness workings onsite.