Types of Sounds.

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CHAPTER -1

INTRODUCTION

1.1.GENERAL:

It is clear that water is one of the essential substances for living system and it is
necessary for human survival on the earth (Tansel, 2008; Ambashta and Sillanpaa,
2010). All humans daily consume water to sustain life and maintain a good health,
therefore water conservation is important and its quality must meet specific
standards.The quality of water is determined by many factors such as physical,
chemical or biological parameters. The main sources of drinking water are lakes,
reservoirs, canal, ground water, sea water, rain water, atmospheric water
generation and fog collection that depending on the source of pollutant, their
pollution could be different(Ferguson et al., 2009; Huang et al., 2008; Zhang et al.,
2009; Ackah et al., 2011; Sayyed and Wagh, 2011;Tiwari, 2011; Zhang et al.,
2011). All water in earth is not good for drinking purpose and must use of
sometreatment process to achieve the standard quality for therefore we are facing a
challenge to produce suitable drinking water. General treatment of drinking water
is consisting of several stage to remove or reduction of suspended, dissolved solid
and microbial pollutants.
Main process of water treatment include flocculation, sedimentation and media
filtration to remove colloidal and suspended solids, ion exchange, carbon
adsorption and membrane processes to remove dissolved solids; and at last stage a
disinfection for microbial inactivation that often performed by chlorination,
ozonation and ultraviolet radiation(UV) (Tansel, 2008). Any process of drinking
water has some purification limitation and application problems such as high cost,
ineffective for removal some pollutant, operationproblems and generate toxic
secondary pollutants (Gaya and Abdullah, 2008). For example, common problem
in membrane filtration is fouling and in disinfection with chlorine product DBPs
(disinfection by products) is aserious problem (Liu et al, 2005). Many
investigations have been performing to eliminate this limitation byapplication
ofinnovates technique such as semiconductor catalysts, forward osmoses, advances
oxidation process and magnetic purification (Chong et al., 2010; Ambashta and
Sillanpaa, 2010). One of the innovate technologies that was used for improvement
of water treatment process is application of ultrasound (US) waves having a
frequency of 20,000 Hz or above that is called “sonication”.
Fig.i. Types of sounds.

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