Assessment of Filter Membrane Requirement and Quantification of Colloids by Tetrasect Filtration in Kalpakkam Region, Tamil Nadu, India

Colloids are ubiquitous in nature in the form of solid or liquid or gas. The presence of colloids is significant in environments; hence the study has attained its significance. The current study focuses on groundwater colloids quantifying by filtration method in four different sizes and assessment of requirement of filter membranes for the same. As the result of filtering in four different size membrane we could have get four size ranges of colloids. Two coastal bore wells were selected for this study along the southeast coast of India. The results show that higher accumulation of colloids will increases the number filter membrane due to blocking of pores in the membranes. Compared to these bore wells Kalpakkam Township has higher accumulation of colloids than Anupuram Township and consequently it needs more number of filter membrane to filter the groundwater sample. In both locations 0.8µm size fraction got the least accumulation of colloids and conceding least number of filter membrane for filtration.