Useful to the fraternity comprising water treatment and water supply engineers, water chemists, water microbiologists, environmental engineers, sanitary engineers, operating personnel, executives, consultants and to firms and other professionals who are engaged in water treatment and pollution control, to fishery scientists, and to all wet processing industries.

WATER CHEMISTRY BASIC INFORMATION

PART - I : BASIC INFORMATION

1. Water - The Elixir of Life
2. Properties of Water

3. Sources of Water

4. Constituents of Water

5. Examination of Water

6. Water and Scale Formation

7. Water and Corrosion

8. Water-borne Diseases

PART - II : CHEMICAL EXAMINATION - SAMPLING AND OTHER INFORMATION

9. Collection and Preservation of samples for Chemical Analysis

10. Expression of Results

11. Water for Laboratory Use

12. General Notes on Reagents

13. Instrumental Methods of Analysis

PART - III : PHYSICAL AND ORGANOLEPTIC PROPERTIES OF WATER

14. Color

15. Turbidity

16. Odor

17. Taste

18. Temperature

19. Electrical Conductivity

20. Solids

– A. Total Solids

– B. Dissolved Solids

– C. Suspended Solids

– D. Settleable Solids

PART - IV : COMMON METALLIC AND NON-METALLIC CONSTITUENTS

21. pH

22. Acidity

23. Free Carbon dioxide

24. Alkalinity

25. Hardness (Total)

26. Calcium

27. Magnesium

28. Sodium

29. Potassium

30. Iron

31. Manganese

32. Aluminium

33. Sulfate

34. Chloride

35. Nitrate

36. Nitrite

37. Fluoride

38. Phosphate

39. Silica

40. Probable Combinations (Checking the Correctness of Analysis)

PART - V : DISSOLVED GASES

41. Dissolved Oxygen

42. Free Carbon dioxide

43. Chlorine

44. Ozone

45. Hydrogen sulfide

46. Ammonia

PART - VI : HEAVY METALS AND METALLOIDS

47. Preliminary Acid Digestion of the Sample

48. Antimony

49. Arsenic

50. Cadmium

51. Chromium

52. Copper

53. Lead

54. Mercury

55. Nickel

56. Selenium

57. Silver

58. Zinc

PART - VII : TRACE INORGANICS

59. Barium

60. Boron

61. Cyanide

62. Iodide

63. Sulfide

64. Sulfite

PART - VIII : TRACE ORGANICS

65. Oil and Grease

66. Pesticides

67. Phenols

68. Surfactants

69. Tannin & Lignin

PART IX : GENERAL MEASURES OF ORGANIC POLLUTION

70. General Measures of Organic Pollution - An Introduction

71. Bio Chemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)

72. Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)

73. Permanganate Value (or) Oxygen Absorbed) (or) Tidy's Test

74. Nitrogen

75. Ammonia Nitrogen

76. Albuminoid Nitrogen

77. Organic Nitrogen

78. Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen

79. Organic Carbon

PART - X : PARAMETERS PERTINENT TO WATER TREATMENT

80. Assessing the Scale Forming / Corrosive Tendencies of Water with respect to Calcium carbonate - Langelier Index and Other Indices

81. Assessing the Scale Forming / Corrosive Tendencies of Water with respect to Calcium carbonate - Calcium carbonate Stability Test (or) Corrosivity Test (or) Marble Test

82. Coagulation - Coagulant Demand (or) Jar Test

83. Coagulation - Residual Alum

84. Chlorination - Chlorine Demand

85. Chlorination - Residual Chlorine

86. Ozonation - Residual Ozone

87. Ion Exchange Treatment - Ionic Load (or) Ion Exchange Load

88. Demineralization - Equivalent Mineral Acidity (EMA)

89. Reverse Osmosis - Silt Density Index (SDI) or Fouling Index

90. Boiler Water Treatment - Residual Chelant (EDTA)

91. Boiler Water Treatment - Residual Hydrazine

92. Waste Water Treatment - Volatile Acids

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