Water treatment for cement plant wastewater

Highlighting the importance of water treatment for cement plant wastewater.

A cement plant wastewater treatment system has to be highly effective in order to remove the minute particulate that remains after cement production. This task becomes even more important when a closed system – the industry standard – is in place and the waste water is reused over and over again. In cement industries water is used only for cooling operation of manufacturing process or it has different other uses. So here we discuss why and how important is water treatment for cement plant.

Why is water treatment so important

Thirumurugan Rajaram, Manager – Business Development (Sales), Grundfos Pumps India Pvt Ltd, says,

“Cement mills are water sensitive and water plays a major role in its production, starting from crushing stage till mill equipment. The source of water varies from surface water including from rivers and lakes, ground water from borewells, rainwater harvested etc. which are having different water properties.

This water is treated to desire parameters enabling the process are not affected and the end product is manufactured with good quality.” He adds, “For human consumption, the water needs to meet WHO regulations. Water treatment is an important package […]

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