Abstract
Water quality has long been an important part of the operation of nuclear and thermal power plants. Water is used as a working and cooling fluid in power plants. The quality of source water to be used in the power plants after treatment should conform to the prescribed values of Physico-Chemical properties like pH, EC, TDS, Alkalinity, Hardness, presence of Chloride content, Silica, and Heavy metals as recommended by technical guidelines. To analyze the water characteristics, water samples were collected from various sources. Two river water samples and a groundwater sample (marked as PP1, PP2, and NPP site) were tested to determine the water properties. The Physico-chemical properties of the water samples were determined using various analytical tests. Heavy metals were also investigated using the Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometric (AAS) process. The Physico-chemical properties of investigated samples were so good as to the recommended values of the World Health Organization (WHO), United States of Public Health (USPH), and Bangladesh Environmental Department. But the values were very far from the recommended values for thermal power plants operation. So, it needs to treat to use in the boilers. Gravitation, Carbon filtration, Ion exchange method, and Reverse Osmosis (RO) are good ways to treat the water before use in power plants. The Padma River water is better than the other two samples when the Physico-chemical characteristics of the sample waters were analyzed to the prescribed levels for the boiler water of a thermal power plant and the secondary water circuit of a third-generation nuclear PWR reactor. The aim of this work is to explore the difference between the source water quality parameters values and those of the recommended values of technical guidelines. To minimize the water treatment cost, a new site for the installation of a power plant project in Bangladesh can be advocated depending on the availability of good quality water.
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