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Water Practice & Technology © IWA Publishing 2012  |  doi:10.2166/wpt.2012.033

Micro hydraulic mobile water treatment plant: application in the field

R. Garsadi^a, S. Notodarmojo^a, P. S. Ross^b and J. Q. J. C. Verberk^b

^aBandung Institute of Technology, LAPI ITB, Indonesia
^bDepartment of Water management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. E-mail: J.Q.J.C.Verberk@TUDelft.nl

The micro hydraulic mobile water treatment plant is an emergency water treatment unit which is fast to deploy, simple to operate and has a low energy and chemical consumption. The mobile treatment plant has been operated successfully after several natural disasters in Indonesia. Currently more than 30 installations are used on a daily basis in Indonesia. Water quality control is done manually on a daily basis and a large database of results is available. These water quality data have been compared with computer model water quality calculations in order to optimize coagulant dosage.

Keywords: disaster relief; drinking water supply; micro hydraulic mobile water treatment; surface water treatment

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