Roșu water treatment plant

GROUP:1511b(BEM)

PROJECT DONE BY:

POTÎRNICHE ANDREEA
POPESCU ANDREI
PUFLEANU IOANIS
NOVOLAN MIHAI
Apa Nova Bucharest (a company belonging to the Veolia Group) has as main activity the
management of water supply and sewerage services on the territory of Bucharest, being the
concessionaire of the public water supply and sewerage services in Bucharest for a period of 25
years since 2000.
The Apa Nova Company treats and produces drinking water in the Arcuda, Roşu and Crivina
plants, which take water from the Argeş and Dâmboviţa rivers.
The plant from Roşu is one of the most important ones from Romania. It provides daily 300.000
m³ of water to the city of Bucharest. Its capacity can grow, if necessary, up to 520.000 m³, in
order to sustain the plant from Arcuda and the new plant from Ogrezeni
As the treatment plant from Arcuda, the one from Roşu belongs of Bucharest Municipality,
which entrusted, in 2001, the upgrade of the APA NOVA society to the French company Veolia
Eau. To be precise, the operation of the whole water feeding system of Bucharest was entrusted,
through a concession contract, to the Veolia Eau society, which had set goals – reaching the
required level of services regarding the water quality and upgrading the Roşu treatment plant
Built in 1970, the plant has been completely upgraded since 20020. The Stage is equipped with a
treatment bed that allows the elimination of all unwanted toxins and substances that result from
domestic, industrial, agricultural or natural environment.
Today, the plant from Roșu is equipped with 6 suction pumps for rough call, 6 treatment plant, 6
decanter flocculants, 28 filters of sand, 2 double-layer sand and granular activated charcoal
filters on a surface of 120000m².

1.Intake and pumping

The water is taken through an aqueduct from the Argeș river through a pumping station whose
actual configuration of the pumps is: 2 groups type DV 2-87, each with a capacity of 9000
mc/h.,2 WILO fixed assemblies,each with a capacity of 7700 mc/h, 2 variable groups WILO,
each with a 4400 mc/h capacity. A grater collects all floating objects (branches, leaves, plastic
bags, etc…).
2. Clotting-Flocculation-Decantation-Filtration.
Very fine particles, suspended in the water, gather in the shape of flakes under the action of a
coagulation agent. Such flakes, heavier than air, settle on the bottom of the tank and thus 90% of
the suspended matters are removed.

Decantation

Trained by their own weight, the nocons are deposited in 6 clindric decanters with a nominal
flow rate of 3600 mph, each 5 and 48 m in diameter. At the end of this stage the water is
cleaner.

3.Sand filtration
After decantation, the clear water near the surface is routed through channels to the filtration
stage consisting of 28 sand filters and 2 double-layer filters: sand and granular activated charcoal
with a unit surface area of 120 m². This treatment step allows the elimination of all remaining
particles after flocculation.
4.Dinfection(with chlorine gas)
Disinfection is a treatment aimed at eliminating pathogenic micro-organisms: bacteria, viruses
and parasites. This stage of treatment allows obtaining a bacteriological bacterial water with a
high disinfection power to avoid bacterial returns in the distribution network. The Red Plant
uses this upstream filtering method to avoid filter contamination and leaving the filter for 24/24
hours.
The largest chlorine stocks are found at Roşu. Gas chlorine is being used in every station, which,
in the case of any damage caused will be neutralized with soda. For this purpose, the station is
equipped with soda deposits
The drinking water law demands that it is necessary to have values between 0.1 and 0.5
milligrams of chlorine per liter when the water gets to the customer and the quality of the water
is determined by three big categories of parameters: sensory – color, smell, taste -,
physicochemical (turbidity) and microbiological.
5. Calco-caloric rebalancing(with soda)
During pipeline displacement, aggressive or corrosive waters attack the limestone layer of the
pipes, generating limestone deposits on the pipes. Treating at the exit of the strip allows these
inconveniences to be avoided.

6. Tanks and high-pressure stations

At the exit of the Rosu plant, the water is transported through concrete aqueducts, to the 20
reservoirs located on the outskirts of Bucharest, and which provides for the storage of drinking
water of 360,000 m3. All tanks are cleaned, washed and disinfected once a year.
Drinking water is pumped from the reservoirs through 8 pumping stations consisting of a total of
52 pumps, then distributed in the supply network.

The sludge
The sludge from the decantation is directed to the lagoons located at 3 Km from the treatment
plant.

Laboratory
Monitoring the quality of the drinking water relies on strict technical procedures and state-of-the-
art measuring instruments.
The quality of the drinking water is monitored both in the water plants where the automatic
testers supervise each treatment phase in real time to check for efficacy, and in the water tanks
and supply networks. Parallel, lab tests are made, according to frequency required by regulations.
The quality of the drinking water is continuously and permanently checked by means of
automatic testers and complex physical-chemical, biological and microbiological tests.
Approximately 120,000 indicators are checked annually for a number of 6,000 samples taken
from the supply network.
Apa Nova Bucureşti water test labs are accredited by the Romanian Accreditation Association
(RENAR); they employ qualified personnel for water chemistry and microbiology and are
equipped with state-of-the-art equipment that guarantees the accuracy of the results obtained for
all the quality indicators of the drinking water.
What is the water checked for?
 Organoleptic and physical-chemical indicators:

 the smell and the taste of water are given by the change of properties thereof (whether
some substances, mineral salts and dissolute gas are present);
  the colour of water is given by the substances dissolved naturally, whether mineral or
organic;
 the colour of water is given by the substances dissolved naturally, whether mineral or
organic;
 pH;
 conductivity shows the total salts dissolved in water;
 residual free chlorine is the quantity of chlorine left in the water after disinfection to
ensure the safety thereof;
 ammonium, nitrites and nitrates show the changes of the water quality in time caused by
contamination sources specific to such type of compounds;
 iron is a natural component of water in the shape of compounds (usually ferrous
bicarbonate);
 oxidability is given by the total quantity of organic and non-organic substances that can
be converted into an oxide in water;
 total hardness represents the properties given by the calcium and magnesium compounds
present in the solution. Generally, the hardness of water is expressed in German degrees
of hardness.
 aluminium is naturally contained in water and induced following the treatment for
drinking water.
 Bacteriological indicators:

 Coli form bacteria, Escherichia coli, enterococi, clostridium perfringens are

microroganisms existent in the environment, which presence in the water may cause
hydric diseases;

Conclusions
 Apa Nova is the concessionaire of the public water supply and sewerage services in
Bucharest for a period of 25 years since 2000.
 The Apa Nova Company treats and produces drinking water in the Arcuda, Roşu and
Crivina plants, which take water from the Argeş and Dâmboviţa rivers.
 The plant from Roşu provides daily 300.000 m³ of water to the city of Bucharest. Its
capacity can grow, if necessary, up to 520.000 m³
 The water purification process is : Collecting the water, Filtration, of calco-
carbonical rebalancing , disinfection
 The sludge from the decantation is directed to the lagoons located at 3 Km from the
treatment plant.