Water Treatment
WATER INTAKE STRUCTURE AND WATER PRETREATMENT PLANT
Water Pretreatment Plant consists of the Water Intake Structure where water is taken in from the Ankara Brook and subjected to physical treatment, and the water preliminary treatment plant where water is subjected to physical and chemical treatment and the dissolved and suspended solid substances in the water are removed and the temporary hardness of the water (carbonate hardness) is eliminated.
At the water intake structure, the water passes through physical treatment and is collected at the pump basin. The water collected at the pump basin is pumped into the preliminary treatment plant through two lines via submersible pumps.
Water sent from the water intake structure via two lines comes to two decarbonization reactors each with a volume of 1700 m3 and with the ability to condition water at 630 m3/hour. The water is discharged into the turbine section at the reactor core and enters into reaction with the added chemicals. The clean water sluiced from the reactor surface goes to sand filters. A portion of the sludge produced at the reactors is sent to the slurry thickener. The slurry thickened at the thickener is then pumped into belt presses. Here, the caked slurry is disposed at the slurry storage area.
Water filtered at sand filters is transferred to a 800 m3 raw water pool. The raw water exiting the preliminary water treatment plant is sent to the cooling towers at the main site, via a line. The daily production capacity of the plant is 30240 m3 of raw water.