How many fusible plugs are there on a 100 or 150 pound chlorine cylinder?

1

What is the most common cause of a chlorine leak?

Lead washer failure or failure to change lead washer

What type of respirator is needed when entering a chlorine room?

SCBA

What is the IDLH for chlorine?

10

How many ppm of chlorine in a room will bring death in seconds?

1,000 ppm or 0.10% by volume

What percentage of the air is oxygen?

20.9%

What chemical is used to oxidize iron from water?

Chlorine

How do you open a chlorine cylinder?

With a six inch box wrench.

The iodometric test is used to test for what parameter?

Ozone Residual

What is the minimum free chlorine residual for the distribution system?

0.2 mg/L

What is the minimum combined residual?

0.6 mg/L

What is the maximum residual disinfectant level?

4 mg/L

What does the C in CT value mean?

Concentration of the chlorine residual

What is measured from the chlorine application point to the point where the chlorine
residual is taken?

Time

What does the T mean in CT value?

Time

How many pounds of chlorine can you withdraw from a ton cylinder in a day?

400 pounds

How many pounds of chlorine can you draw from a 100 or 150 pound cylinder in a
day?

40 pounds

When chlorine is used to disinfect drinking water, the chlorine cylinders are placed on what device to measure usage?

Scale

What is a device used to measure the flow rate of liquid or gasses?

Rotameter

The chlorine scale reading does not equal the rotameter setting for the pass 24 hours. What is the most likely cause?

Air leak down stream of the chlorinator

Pumping dry air into a container or cylinder to assist with the withdrawal of a liquid or gas is called?

Air padding

What is an open or vertical drop or space that separates a potable drinking water supply from an unapproved water or nonpotable water called?

Air gap

What is the most common cause of water borne illnesses in the US?

Cross-connection

What method is considered the most reliable in measuring chlorine residuals?

What method is considered the most reliable in measuring chlorine residuals?

The addition of chlorine until the demand is satisfied and, thereafter, every drop of chlorine added is free residual is called?

Breakpoint chlorination

What is the disadvantage of breakpoint chlorination?

THM formation

Substances which cause cancer are called?

Carcinogens

What do you call a substance that changes the speed or yield of a chemical reaction without being consumed or chemically changed?

A catalyst

What parameter is determined by this formula? Cl₂ dosage- Residual =?

Demand

What do you call the indicator organism that is found in the intestines of warm blooded animals, including human beings, and in plants, soil, water, and air?

Coliform

What is DPD used for?

Measuring chlorine residuals.

Why is chlorine added to drinking water?

To disinfect the water

How many pounds of chlorine can you withdraw from a cylinder in 24 hours?

Depends on ambient temperature (8 pounds per degree F)

Disease causing organisms are called?

Pathogens

What does HTH mean?

High Test Hypochlorite

What does OCI mean?

Hypochlorite

What does HOCI mean?

Hypochlorous Acid

What is NaOCl?

Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach)

An increase in the heterotrophic plate count indicates?

Nitrification

What do the initials MPN mean?

Most Probable Number

What bacteria break down ammonia nitrogen to nitrites?

Nitrosomonas

Which bacteria break down nitrites to nitrates?

Nitrobacter

Which are the ideal conditions for nitrification to take place?

A dark environment, temperature between 25-30°C, a pH of 7.5-8.5, and free ammonia available

What is used to detect a chlorine leak?

Ammonia

What is used to detect a sulfur dioxide leak?

Ammonia

What is used to detect an ammonia leak?

Hydrochloric acid

If your plant is pre-chlorinating and you find that you are exceeding the MCL for THMS, what should you do?

Stop pre-chlorinating

Naturally occurring volatile organic compounds react with chlorine and form what cancer causing compound?

THMs

A pure chemical substance that is used to make new products or is used in chemical rests to measure, detect, or analyze other substances is called?

A reagent

The concentration of chlorine present in water after the chlorine demand has been satisfied is called?

Residual

Dosage

The Dosage is 5 pm and the residual is 3 ppm. What is the demand?

2 ppm

What do you call the process of adding a chemical reagent in small increments until completion of a reaction, as signaled by the end point?

Titration

What do you call the cloudy appearance of water caused by the presence of suspended and colloidal matter?

Turbidity

Why are water plant operators concerned with turbidity?

Turbidity interferes with disinfection

What is the MCL for turbidity?

0.5 Nephelometric units

Name four bacteria found in contaminated water?

Typhoid, Cholera, Dysentery, and Salmonella

Name two parasites that are found in contaminated water?

Cryptosporidium and Giardia lamblia

What determines the number of coliform samples that a water system has to take?

Population served

What is the MCL for coliform?

If a sample tests positive for coliform what actions should be taken?

Retest at the site within 24 hour notification of the positive test and sample one site upstream and downstream from the positive site.

If a water system samples 40 or more sites for coliform, how many positive samples are allowed?

2 or 5%

If a water system samples 39 or fewer sites for coliform, how many positive samples are allowed?

1

What are the optimum conditions for disinfection?

What are the optimum conditions for disinfection?

Why is turbidity of the water important?

High turbidity interferes with disinfection and coagulation

The Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR) requires what minimum level of water treatment?

Disinfection and Filtration

Besides chlorination and ammoniation, what other processes reduce pathogens in the water?

Coagulation, Filtration, and Sedimentation

Ultraviolet rays are used to disinfect water. What limits the UV rays efficiency?

No residual; also, if a pathogen is caught between two particles, the rays have no effect on the pathogen.

What color is chlorine gas?

Greenish-yellow

Chlorine cylinders are filled to what capacity?

85% to allow for the expansion of the liquid into the gaseous state

How many parts per million of chlorine is needed to oxidize one ppm of H2S to
elemental sulfur?

2.08 mg/L

How many parts per million of chlorine is needed to oxidize one ppm of H2S to sulfates?

8.32 mg/L

If sulfur dioxide comes into contact with a person's mucous membrane, what can happen?

The formation of sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄)

What does this chemical reaction indicate? H₂S + Cl₂+O²2-→ S↓ + H₂O+2 Cl

Oxidation of H₂S by chlorine to elemental sulfur

What does this chemical reaction indicate?

H₂S+4 Cl₂+4 H₂O→ H₂SO₄ +8 HCI

Oxidation of H₂S by chlorine to sulfates or sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄)

In the last 4 questions, what do you call the oxidation process that took place?

Question 1:

What does this chemical reaction indicate?

H₂S+4 Cl₂+4 H₂O→ H₂SO₄ +8 HCI

Question 2:

What does this chemical reaction indicate? H₂S + Cl₂+O²2-→ S↓ + H₂O+2 Cl

Question 3:

If sulfur dioxide comes into contact with a person's mucous membrane, what can happen?

Question 4:

How many parts per million of chlorine is needed to oxidize one ppm of H2S to sulfates?

Sub-residual chlorination

n the normal pH range of drinking water, what is the usual form of chlorine?

Monochloramines

When you add ammonia to chlorine you form?

Chloramines

When chlorine is added to water what is the usual first reaction?

Chlorine is used up (destroyed) by reducing compounds (viruses, bacteria, solids, parasites, etc)

After the reduction of the chlorine dosage, what reaction takes place?

Chlororganics and chloramines are formed - residual is present

What is the next reaction in the chlorination chain?

Residual is reduced-chlororganics and chloramines destroyed

After the reaction in question 85, what takes place?

Breakpoint chlorination

What causes the swimming pool taste and odor in water?

Low chlorine residual-plant did not use breakpoint chlorination

What is the best residual for disinfection?

Free available chlorine

At water pH levels of 4.0 or lower, what form will chlorine take?

Trichloramine

Above pH of 7.5 chlorine is found as?

Monochloramines

Dichloramines and monochloramines exist together at what pH range?

5.5-7.5

Dichloramines and trichloramines are associated with what water complaint?

Tastes and odors

If chlorine is used to treat an odor caused by phenols (benzene), what happens?

The odor and taste are intensified

Customers are complaining of a sweet, aromatic, medicinal taste in the water. What is the likely cause?

Phenols

What is the best method to remove tastes and odors caused by phenols?

GAC

To avoid THM formation, what options are available to the WTP?

Switch disinfectants, remove the precursors, or form THMs and remove them after they are formed

What is the most common alternate disinfectant used to avoid the formation of THMs?

Chloramines

What is the highest chlorine to ammonia ratio by weight?

5 ppm Cl₂ as free residual to 1 ppm of NH₃

When measuring combined chlorine residuals (chloramines) in the field, what is the process?

Analyze for total chlorine (no free chlorine should be present at CI₂-NH₃ ratios of 3:1 to 5:1)

What is the MCL for Nitrites?

1

What is the MCL for Nitrates?

10

What is the combined MCL for nitrites and Nitrates?

10

Before moving a chlorine cylinder, what should you do?

Replace the protective cap

The chlorine cylinders have iced up. What is the likely cause?

Too rapid a withdrawal

In what direction do you turn a chlorine valve to open the cylinder?

Counterclockwise

How many turns does it take to open the cylinder valve fully?

1 complete turn opens the tank fully

If the bottom valve of a cylinder is leaking, what should you do?

Rotate the tank so the leak is at the top

A minimum PSI at the injector should be?

50 PSI

On a direct mount chlorinator, water is showing in the metering tube. What is the likely cause?

Check valve failure

What action is needed in question 110?

Question 110:

On a direct mount chlorinator, water is showing in the metering tube. What is
the likely cause?

Clean or replace valve

On a direct mount chlorinator, water is venting into the atmosphere. What is the likely cause?

Excess water PSI

What action is needed in question 112?

Question 112:

On a direct mount chlorinator, water is venting into the atmosphere. What is the likely cause?

Remove vacuum regulator

On a direct mount chlorinator, there is no indication on flow meter when a vacuum is present. What is the likely cause?

Vacuum leak

On a direct mount chlorinator, there is an indication on the flow meter, but air is present, not chlorine gas. What is likely cause?

Gasket leaks.

If the DPD test is taken on water that has a combined residual, what error can take place?

False positive reading-precipitate forms and gives sample appearance of having color

Chlorinator will feed OK at maximum outputs, but there is no control at lower feed rates. What's the problem?

Vacuum Regulating Valve

Chlorinator will not reach maximum point. What's problem?

Faulty injector

Variable vacuum control will not go below 30% feed. Signal OK. What is causing problem?

CPRV

Variable vacuum control reaches full feed, but will not go below 50% feed rate. CPRV OK. What's causing the problem?

Signal vacuum too high

Variable vacuum control won't go to full feed. Gas pressure OK. CPRV OK. What's causing the problem?

Plugged restrictor

Low injector vacuum reading. What is the problem?

Flow restricted

There is an increase in the coliform level. What is the cause?

Low chlorine residual

There is a sudden drop in the chlorine residual. What causes this?

Increase in chlorine demand or drop in chlorine feed rate

What is used to detect a chlorine leak?

bottle can be used to spray ammonia vapors near the connections. A white cloud Ans. Soak a rag with chlorine and hold it near connections. Also, polyethylene spray
indicates a leak

How do you reduce high chlorine residuals before the water leaves the plant?

GAC or Sodium Bisulfate

If there is a leak around the chlorine valve stem, what action is needed?

Tighten the nut or stem by turning it clockwise

What chemicals can be used to neutralize chlorine?

Caustic Soda; Soda Ash; Lime

What kit is used to repair a defective ton cylinder?

B Kit

What kit is used to repair a 100 or 150 pound cylinder?

A kit

What is the maximum temperature that chlorine cylinders should be stored

100°C

ORP probes are used to measure what?

Direct measure of the disinfecting power of chlorine

Where should the ORP probe be located?

6.5 minutes downstream from the injection point

In rooms where there is chlorine or carbon dioxide present, what type of respirators should not be used?

Gas mask

What should you give some one who has inhaled chlorine?

Milk or peppermint spirits

What causes UV systems to be ineffective?

Scaling or fouling of the quartz sleeves. Also, high flow velocities; turbidity, and decline in lamp output

If 30 pounds of chlorine are used during an average week at a WTP, how many 150 pound cylinders will be used per month?

0.86 cylinder

Solution: Divide 30 pound/week by 7 days/week 4.3 lbs/day multiply this x 30 days= 129 lbs/month divide this by 150 lbs cylinder = 0.86 Cylinder

A water system treats 12.8 MGD. It doses the water with 5 ppm of chlorine. How many pounds of chlorine will the WTP use in 30 days?

5 ppm x 12.8 MGD x 8.34-534 lbs/day times 30 days= 16,013 lbs.

If the free chlorine residual leaving the plant is less than 0.2 mg/L, what action is
needed?

WTP/System is allowed up to 4 hours to correct problem

WTP/System is allowed up to 4 hours to correct problem

Equivalent to a detectable disinfectant residual

Bacteria found in the intestines of warm blooded animals, including human beings, and also in plants, water, soil, and air are called?

Coliform

Name three disease causing bacteria found in water?

Salmonella, Cholera, and typhoid

Which tablet is always found in a coliform sampling twirl bag?

Sodium Thiosulfate

Why is a space left in the twirl bag?

To allow for mixing

If the sample site is contaminated and you have no other sample site available, what should you do?

Swab the spigot with an NaOCl solution

What is the minimum amount needed to test for coliform?

100 mL

How long can you hold a sample collected for coliform?

6 hours

What test is also taken when the coliform samples are collected?

Chlorine Residual

What causes blue babies?

Nitrites

What do heterotrophic organisms use for their growth?

Organic Matter

Which substance in water increases the chlorine demand?

Nitrites

An increase in the heterotrophic plate count (HPC) indicates what process is taking place?

Nitrification

A HPC of less than 500 is an indication that there is a __?

Chlorine Residual

When taking samples for analysis by the lab, which of the following protocols must be followed?

Must fill out Chain of Custody Report