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    This document outlines a failure modes and effects analysis for a water treatment process. It identifies potential failure modes at each process step, including the raw water wells, chlorine addition, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and distribution. For each failure mode it rates the severity of potential effects, likelihood of occurrence and current detection methods to calculate a risk priority number. It then recommends actions to address high risk issues, such as installing new monitoring equipment, improving maintenance procedures and assigning responsibilities.

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    This document outlines a failure modes and effects analysis for a water treatment process. It identifies potential failure modes at each process step, including the raw water wells, chlorine addition, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and distribution. For each failure mode it rates the severity of potential effects, likelihood of occurrence and current detection methods to calculate a risk priority number. It then recommends actions to address high risk issues, such as installing new monitoring equipment, improving maintenance procedures and assigning responsibilities.

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    This document outlines a failure modes and effects analysis for a water treatment process. It identifies potential failure modes at each process step, including the raw water wells, chlorine addition, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and distribution. For each failure mode it rates the severity of potential effects, likelihood of occurrence and current detection methods to calculate a risk priority number. It then recommends actions to address high risk issues, such as installing new monitoring equipment, improving maintenance procedures and assigning responsibilities.

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    FMEA

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    This document outlines a failure modes and effects analysis for a water treatment process. It identifies potential failure modes at each process step, including the raw water wells, chlorine addition, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and distribution. For each failure mode it rates the severity of potential effects, likelihood of occurrence and current detection methods to calculate a risk priority number. It then recommends actions to address high risk issues, such as installing new monitoring equipment, improving maintenance procedures and assigning responsibilities.

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    Process or Product Name: Responsible:

    Water Treatment Management

    Prepared by: Debuque, Flores, Gesta, Rodrigo FMEA Date (Orig): July 1, 2013 (Rev): July 6, 2013

    Page 1 of 1

    Process Step/Input

    Potential Failure Mode

    Potential Failure Effects SEVERITY

    Potential Causes

    Current Controls DETECTION RPN

    Actions Recommended

    Resp.

    OCCURRENCE

    What is the process step/ Input under investigation?

    In what ways does the key input go wrong?

    What is the impact on the key output variables (customer requirements) or internal requirements?

    What causes the key input to go wrong?

    What are the existing controls that prevent either the cause or the failure mode?

    What are the actions for reducing the RPN. Should have actions only on high RPN's or easy fixes.

    Who is responsible for the recommend ed action?

    Raw Water Well and Screens

    Death, skin injuries and other detrimental health effects Chlorine Leakage

    High pressure of input flow

    The flowrate and concentration of the chlorine gas is monitored and adjusted according to the amount of raw water feed Manual inspection of instruments as problem arises

    135

    Installation of pressure measurement and control Checking of the status of pipes, tanks and vessels daily

    Process Engineer

    Corrode instruments

    Weakened tank and pipe structure

    162

    Corrosive HCl environment

    Water vapor reacts with chlorine gas to produce HCl

    Monitorng and control of the Cl2 flowrate

    162

    The amount of moisture above the vessel should be maintained and Cl2 should be in contact directly with the feed streams Variable speed pump shoul be installed The generated output should be under critical evaluation other than the pH, alkalinity and turbidity. A variable speed motor on the flocculator and turbidity analyzer must be installed

    Low output

    Low production of treated water

    Pump and the source water deficiency

    The centrifugal pump is installed that is under constant rating The flowrate of PAC and Cl2 are controlled according to the flowrate of raw water and the analysis of pH, alkalinity and turbidity of exiting streams

    72

    Inadequacy of amount of PAC and Cl2

    Low agglomeration of particles and dirt removal

    The mixing is inefficient and the analysis & control of the amount of input streams do not reflect the enough amount needed. flocculator mixing intensity is too fast flocculator mixing intensity is too slow

    42

    Flocculation

    insufficient agglomeration of flocs

    floc particles will be broken up there will be too few particle collisions

    4 The speed of the flocculator is adjust accordingly with the level in the flocculating tank. 4

    112

    Operator, Process Engineer

    112

    Distribution

    clogged pipelines

    flow of the water to the distribution network is hindered and blocked

    scaling of pipelines due to the hardening of water

    the hardness of water is tested at different points of the distribution network

    140

    An analyzer for determining the hardness of water should be installed prior to distribution Bacterial presence in the pipeline should be analyzed and pipelines should be checked for leakages Replacement of the corroded pipelines The time of sludge removal must be known depending on the amount of sludge formed Removing of less sludge more often Clean the filter regularly and monitor backwashing

    Maintenan ce Officer

    consumer complaints Clear Well / Contact Tank bad tasting water

    bacterial growth in the pipe system

    there no current controls

    210

    Quality Control Officer

    consumer complaints

    pipelines are corroded

    no current controls

    210

    sludge remains in the settling tank Sedimentation inefficient sludge removal

    overflow of settling tank

    withdrawal of sludge is hindered

    the quantity of sludge formed is based on the amount of coagulant and characteristics of raw water there are no controls available no current controlls are available as to when the filters are cleaned

    150

    Process Engineer

    overflow of settling tank

    discharging big amounts of sludge more often filter is not backwashed properly

    168

    Filtration

    unclean filter system

    clogging of thefilter underdrain system

    126

    Operator, Process Engineer

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