Unit Operation and Water Treatment Process

Water Treatment Process and Unit Operation

Water treatment involves removal of undesirable constituents from water and them disposal of them in easiest and safest manner. To achieve these goals, a variety of treatment operation and process are utilized, which exploit various physical and chemical phenomena to remove or reduce the undeliverable constituents from water. Those operation used in this treatment of water in which change is brought about by means of or through application of physical forces are known as Unit operation (UO). Those process used for the treatment of water in which change is brought about by means of chemical reaction are known as Unit Process (UP).