Civil · Water & Environmental
Water Treatment Plant Design
Intermediate 5 weeks 35-60 hours
Build a working multi-stage water treatment demo (coagulation, filtration, disinfection with UV/turbidity check). Measure turbidity reduction through each stage.
Major
Civil
Focus area
Water & Environmental
Total hours
35-60 hours
What you'll need
- turbidity sensor module water quality detection for Arduino
- UV LED module 395nm for Arduino
- 12V DC submersible water pump for Arduino
- activated carbon and sand filter media
- Arduino Uno R3 ATmega328P microcontroller board
- clear vinyl tubing and reservoir tank set
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Steps
- Design a treatment train with coagulation, settling, filtration, and UV disinfection stages.
- Build the stages in containers connected with tubing and the pump.
- Mix a test water with a measured amount of fine soil.
- Run water through and measure turbidity after each stage.
- Adjust coagulant dose and flow rate to improve removal.
- Chart turbidity at each stage and document the plant for your portfolio.
What to photograph for your portfolio
- Treatment demo build
- stage-by-stage turbidity
- removal efficiency
- process flow
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Designed and built a water treatment plant design using Water treatment, filtration, water quality sensing
Applied process design to implement, test, and validate the system end-to-end
Skills you'll show off
Water treatmentfiltrationwater quality sensingprocess design