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Effect of Water Conditioning on Wastewater Quality
Author(s) -
Williams James W.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1968.tb03680.x
Subject(s) - conditioning , wastewater , water quality , precipitation , environmental science , land reclamation , water treatment , softening , ion exchange , waste management , environmental engineering , process engineering , chemistry , engineering , ion , materials science , mathematics , ecology , geography , statistics , biology , organic chemistry , meteorology , composite material
Water conditioning is the process of improving water quality for industrial and household uses. This definition includes all conventional operations conducted in a water treatment plant; however, as used in this paper, water conditioning refers to those types of treatment that modify the chemical rather than the physical or biologic character of water. This limits conditioning to ion exchange, precipitation, or membrane methods of treatment. This paper focuses on ion exchange softening, but does provide a discussion on chemical precipitation, regeneration, and reclamation.