BEHAVIOR OF ALUMINUM BASED COAGULANTS IN TREATMENT OF SURFACE WATER-ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICAL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF TREATED WATER

Pre-polymerized inorganic aluminum coagulants have high efficiency in reducing turbidity, total, dissolved, biodegradable organic carbon and microbiological content of surface waters used for drinking, while obtaining low concentrations of residual aluminum after the coagulation phase. Correlation between turbidity raw water and coagulant dose is logarithmic being influenced by temperature and organic content of surface waters. The coagulant's effect on the organic content of the raw water is closely related to the microbiological concentration and can thus determine the mathematical correlations between the two types of parameters after the coagulation-flocculation stage that can be used to assess the water biostability coagulant action.