Diseño de la línea de tratamiento de lodos provenientes de las aguas captadas del Río Magdalena por Celsia S.A.S E.S.P

Celsia E.S.P S.A.S is a thermoelectric plant located on track 40 in the city of Barranquilla. Currently, the company has water extracted from the Magdalena River for its different processes at a rate of 4000 GPM. Much of this water contains mud necessary for the operation of the water clarifier where chemicals are added for its treatment. The clarifier works with a defined level of mud, when this level is exceeded, an appreciable volume of mud is generated from this with a high percentage of humidity, which is stored in a tank for later delivery to third parties, responsible for providing these muds. This contracting by the company generates a cost of around 1200M COP. The main objective of the following project is to present three parallel alternatives to optimize the use of the water extracted daily by the thermoelectric plant through the maximum possible use of the water contained in these sludges, which is economically feasible compared to the current expenses that are generated for the disposal of these and develop the alternative that has better performance in terms of initial investment, maintenance costs and operating costs. After a feasibility study of the three alternatives taking into account the aforementioned criteria, using the Expert Choice tool, the filter press alternative was defined as the best performance alternative. Afterwards, the basic engineering phase was opened, where technical aspects of the installation were taken into account to define operational variables of the sludge plant proposed by this project. The detail engineering was oriented to the optimal selection of the pumps and the total specification of the pipeline of the different lines that were handled in the plant, starting from an analysis of economic diameter up to the specification of the unions, valves, accessories and layout of system curves

• Autores: Díaz Orozco, Ashley Andrea; Padilla Morales, Crhistian Alejandro; Pizarro Bonilla, José Félix; Sánchez Castro, José Ángel
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad del Norte
• Repositorio: Repositorio Uninorte
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:manglar.uninorte.edu.co:10584/8026
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10584/8026
• Palabra clave: Filtración; Decantación; Filtration; decanting
• License: Universidad del Norte