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I. Introduction
Drainage are being used as prevention for the accumulation of water that
can lead to flooding. It is designed to drain excess rain water and ground water
from impermeable surfaces such as paved streets, car parks, parking lots,
footpaths, sidewalks, and roofs. Solid wastes carried off by the rain water are
one of the major problems that causes clogging of the drainage. Drainage of
surface water is all the more important in hill roads. Apart from the drainage of
water from the road formation, the efficient diversion and disposal of water
flowing down the hill slope across the road and from numerous cross streams is
an important part of hill road construction. If drainage system in hill road is not
(Chauhan, 2013).
storm water. The sloping terrain resulted to as more soil erodes that
accumulates sediments washed into the drainage pipes during the rain
(Engineer Paares, 2013). To keep the sediments from entering the drainage
As water floods the catch basin, small particles that slip through the grate
settle to the bottom. Drainage pipes are located above the bottom of this
vertical pipe, ensuring that the water that flows into the drains is clear of
sediment but it doesnt help from removing other particles like micro particles.
Filters are one of the solution to resolve the problem to keep micro particles
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from going into the main or the city drainage and to improve water quality.
Many filters are out in the market that can be used to protect drainage from
clogging such as, manufactured, sand, and anthracite filters. These filters may
be effective, but the fact that it doesnt help in recycling, reusing, and reducing
environmental waste.
Rubber tires have the potential of hazardous fires and causes other health
accumulates each year. There are about 280 million of waste tires were
produced in year 2000 with yearly growth about 26% in stocked in different
states of USA (Sunthonpagasit and Hickman, 2003). Recycling tires may help
the environment and reduce the accumulation of waste caused by the rubber
tires. These rubber tires has high potential of being used as filter by
Consequently crumb rubber tires as filters could be used for years with high
filtration rate. Even the outcome did not reach the goal of removing of the
micro waste, the crumb rubber filter could still be handy in terms of primary
replacement for other filter materials such as manufactured filter, sand, and
aggregates. Crumb rubber tires are derived materials from scrap tires to be used
rubber forms an ideal porosity gradient in filters because the top layer of the
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media is least compressed while the bottom layer is most compressed. Crumb
rubber filters favors in-depth filtration and allows longer filtration time and
(Graf and Xie, 2000). As a filter medium, crumb rubber allows the porosity of
the filter bed to decrease through the filter, resulting in the smallest pore size at
the bottom and largest pore size on the top, which is ideal for down-flow
were effective in removing large particles (>10 m and >15 m). For the
and 15 m were 89.4% and 94.5%, respectively. For the crumb rubber filter,
the removal efficiencies for particles larger than 10 m and 15 m were 86.8%
and 93.6%, respectively (Chen, 2004). By transforming these scrap rubber tires
into crumbs and use it as to innovate such as filter, will lessen the
addition, this research will help the environment to reduce the accumulated
waste produced by the scrap rubber tires. It specifically aims the following:
method.
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filtration process.
III. Significance of the Study
drainage for Carmel Street. It lessens the waste in the environment produced by
shown in the figure 1, Scrap tires served as raw materials for the crumb rubber
V.
VI. INPUT
VII. Filtration Using OUTPUT
VIII.Drainage Crumb Rubber Quality of
IX. Tires Drainage Water
Figure 1. The Conceptual Framework of the Study
This research study will gather requirements, analysis, test, and design
of the drainage with filter using crumb rubber tires. Provide a detailed
designing process and review of the new drainage with crumb rubber tire filter.
It will be limited to the design of drainage and testing of the crumb rubber tire
filter.
This study will present the effective drainage system in the residence of
Carmel Street .The result of this study will be beneficial to the following:
Community. The result of this study will provide the people within the
Researchers. The result of this study will serve as a basis for the future
Drainage
During rain, part of the rain water flow on surface and part of it
percolates through the soil mass as gravitational water until it reaches the
ground water below the water table. Removal and diversion of surface water
from the roadway and adjoining land is termed as surface drainage, while the
some water is retained in the pores of the soil mass and drained off by the
may occur either on the surface or within the soil and the drainage system must
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Filtration
water quality need, longing, or standard. On the other hand simply call it water
treatment. There are a wide range of treatment advancements that take care of
business. (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2013). Before disinfection, the filter can
also eliminates isolated solids and reduces the possibility of having infection.
matter and also microorganisms by passing water through a porous medium fit
for holding the coarse molecule at first glance and the better contaminations in
various layers. The layers from the top comprise of fine sand put throughout
the following layer of coarse sand took after by fine gravel set in the course of
the last layer of coarse gravel. Water from sedimentation tanks is disseminated
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consistently over the whole fine sand bed and to stream by gravity through the
filter, there was no apparent relationship between removal efficiency and filter
depth. Higher filtration rate resulted in lower removal efficiency and higher
head loss (Marine Environmental Research, May 2006). Centre for Affordable
rate through a typical filter should not be less than 0.4 liters per second (or
gradient in filters because the top layer of the media is least compressed while
the bottom layer is most compressed. Crumb rubber filter favours in-depth
filtration and allows longer filtration time and higher filtration rate, which
substantially increases the filtration efficiency (Graf and Xie 2000; Xie et al.
2001).
VIII. Methodology
Presented to this chapter are the research design, constraints of the study
analysis tool.
Research Design
quality and for the advancement of storm water management that the
researchers aimed to attain by the use of crumb rubber tire filter that will meet
with another medium for water filtration- crumb rubber. Moreover, it paved a
basically hazardous to ones health. And through our attempt for an advanced
storm water management, using crumb rubber as water filtration has a great
impact for the sustainability of the drainage system for the fact that it can last
Research Materials
Fine crumb rubber. This was employed for the second stage of the
filtration process where it helps in preventing the pretreated water from the
Coarse crumb rubber. This was employed for the third stage of the
Aluminum steel. This was employed for the chamber of the crumb
Research Procedure
The following were the steps and procedure followed in the conduct of
the study:
clogged wastes (See Appendix A). The drainage configurations were also
attached on the said letter and was used as the basis of our design. (See
Appendix B).
Design of drainage.
1. The depth of the connection with the main drainage in the street and
the grade of the house drain outlet. The depth of the house drain
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floor.
3. The 2% slope was considered on each horizontal drainage pipe line
that was installed at station to the next station. The height of the rise
Height = Length x 2%
which is Crumb rubber tires. Crumb rubber was filled into the cylindrical
stainless chamber in 4- layers with different sizes. Crumb rubber sizes are
0.125 in., 0.25 in, 0.375 in. and 0.5 in. The cylindrical G.I. steel filter was
the filter in the catch basin. The dimensions of filter has a 0.60m diameter and
depth of 0.90m.
up of a scrap tire using whole car or truck tires in the form of shred or chips, or
sidewalls or treads. The rubbers, metals and textiles are sequentially separated
out. Tires are passed through a shredder, which breaks the tires into chips. Finer
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particles with various shapes and sizes. (ASTM D6913 04) Standard Test
Analysis, this test method is used to separate particles into size ranges and also
designed filter and these are the Hydrometer Test Method and the Bucket
Method Test.
determining the percentage drop amount of fined-grain soils after the filtration
process. Bucket method test was used to determine the maximum flow rate of
Hydrometer Test Method. For the efficiency of the crumb rubber filter,
(ASTM D422-63) Standard Test Method for Particle-Size Analysis of Soils was
used to determine the percentage of different grain size of soil before and after
passing the crumb rubber filter. This test method covers the quantitative
particle sizes larger than 75 m (retained on the No. 200 sieve) is determined
necessary data.
Bucket Method Test. In determining the average actual flow rate of the
Crumb rubber filter, Bucket method was used. The Bucket method is a simple
way to measure the flow rate using household items. It requires a stopwatch, a
1. Measure the volume of the bucket or basin. Keep in mind that a typical
bucket. Start the stopwatch simultaneously with the start of the bucket
being filled and stop the stopwatch when the bucket fills. The bucket
should not be filled by holding it below the surface of the filter because
a good idea to do a few trial runs before recording any data so that one
scores and dividing by the total number of scores. This tool was used to
determine the average actual flow rate of the crumb rubber filter.
observations that exist for each data point or grouping of data points. It
tool was used in showing the percentage amount of the distribution fined
grain soils.
Presented to this chapter were the drainage lay-out and the design of the
drainage and its innovative filter. Most of the results were illustrated in tables
drainage is an open canal and connecting the drainage flow from Sinai Street to
Samaria Street. The directions of the flow of water within the drainage were
represented with yellow arrows. There are four catch basins found to be
clogged with waste and silts which are marked with red rectangles. Other catch
basins which were represented with color blue rectangles are still capable of
filtering some silts and is not clogged with waste (Figure 2).
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culvert pipe connected between blocks at the street of Carmel for it to have an
easy detection of any clogging between culvert pipes and catch basins which is
presented in Plan view (See Appendix F). The drainage has a total length of
183.84m and the length of distance between each catch basin depends on the
length of each block in the street and it shown in site development plan (See
Appendix F). The drainage was designed with a 1m x 1m x 1.2m catch basin
with a culvert pipe that has 0.46m diameter. The diameter of the RCCP used
by the researchers was the same as the existing culvert pipe and also, the invert
elevation was presented in the Profile view(See Appendix F).The drainage uses
a hybrid type for it to have an effective distribution of water and higher flow
rate between pipes along the street during rain (Lara 2015). The crumb rubber
catch basin and the filter, a 0.60m x 0.60m manhole is found at the top of the
catch basin. The height of the rise of catch basins will depend on the distance
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of between catch basins multiplied by two percent (Fajardo 2000). The filter is
placed in the middle of the catch basin which has a diameter of 0.60m and 0.90
depth. The filter has a top cover with a screen at its inlet which can protect
larger wastes entering the filter. Silts are being filtered at the bottom part where
Figure 3. Cross Sectional and Top View of the Filter with Crumb Rubber Tires
the percentage distribution of the finer particles contained within a soil. The
researchers used the hydrometer method to test the efficiency of the filter by
investigating if there are reduction of fine particles present in the sample after it
was filtered. There were two set of samples used in this test. One of these was
the 1000ml of water with 50g of fined grain soils before it passes through the
filter and the other one was the 1000ml of water with 50g of fined grain soils
but already passes through the filter. The researchers will knew if there was
reduction of fine particles if the percent finer of the sample after it was filtered
is lesser than the percent finer of the sample before it was filtered.
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done with its corresponding time, and temperature. Depth L with its
corresponding Actual hydrometer value are given in Table 1 (See Appendix C).
Hydrometer
Elapsed Time, (min) L , from Table 1 Temperature, C
Reading, R actual
0 8.1 50 30
1 9.2 43 30
2 10.1 38 30
4 11.2 31 29
8 12.4 24 29
16 14.7 10 29
As shown in Table 6, percent finer have large values for the fact that the
sample used was the water before it passes through the filter and it also means
that it has much fined grain soils content. Percent finer have also these
observations, the sample used was the water with fined grain soils after it
compared to the 1st sample and it means that the content of fine grain soils in
the water were reduced. On the other hand, the actual hydrometer readings
radically decreasing with the same elapsed time in the 1 st sample and it is
Hydrometer
Elapsed Time, (min) L , from Table 1 Temperature, C
Reading, R actual
0 11.4 30 30
1 12.2 25 30
2 13 20 30
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4 14.2 13 29
8 15 8 29
16 15.8 3 29
Table 8 shows the results of the hydrometer test for the 2 nd sample
which indicates that there were decreased in percent finer in the same elapsed
time of the 1st sample. Percent finer percentage shows that there were rapid
change in the content of fined grain soils in the water in which it was lessen.
Hydrometer Hydrome Ct , a,
ter Corr. K, from Velocity Diameter %
Reading, from from
For Table 2 (cm/s) (cm) Finer ,P
Corr. R Minescus Table 3 Table 4
shown in Table 9 which shows that there were reduction of fined grain soils
after the filtration process in the same elapsed time reading. It was clearly
Table 9. Percent Finer Difference between Before and After the Filtration
Process.
determined by bucket method test to check if the filter design is effective and
safe. The Bucket method is a simple way to measure the flow rate using
three people.
Q = VA = Volume / time
V = actual velocity
The tabulation of the results of the Bucket method test are given in Table
10 and it shows that the numerical value of the average actual flow rate of the
crumb rubber filter has close greater value to a typical media filter standard
flow rate which is equal to 0.4L/min. This means that there were much greater
volume of water that can pass through the crumb rubber filter which is one way
0.479121
Average Actual Flow Rate), Q (L/min)
X. Conclusion
This study has fulfilled its objectives. Based on the results, the following
1. Carmel Street current drainage layout was presented and found out that
the current drainage is already clogged of wastes and silts based on the
off analysis for the filter design, the researchers came up with a conical
shape filter with 4 layers of crumb rubber tires. The use of crumb
rubber tires served as filter medium that leads to reduction of silts and
fined grain soils as well as the waste caused by tires in the environment.
soils since the percent content of the fined grain soils present in the
media filter which is equal to 0.4 L/min, this means that there will be
greater volume of water that can pass through the crumb rubber filter.
drainage that is blocking the flow of water. Based on the findings and
the catch basin of the drainage. The researchers who would like to follow this
study, further study such as improving its efficiency and performance as a filter
recommended to use crumb rubber tires to lessen the waste of scrap tires since
it is hazardous to health and it causes air pollution in some aspects. Rubber tire
with greater chance of toxic chemical contaminants can highly threatened the
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Sunthonpagasit, N., & Hickman, H. L., Jr. (2003). Manufacturing and utilizing
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Letter of Resolution
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Hydrometer Analysis
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PLAN VIEW
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PROFILE VIEW
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