AWWA-20647 Water Filtration Practices: Including Slow Sand Filters and Precoat Filtration

Practical guidance on the operation and maintenance of pretreatment, rapid-rate granular media filtration, slow-sand filtration, and diatomaceous-earth filtration systems.

Water operators will find a wealth of hands-on information on the operation and maintenance of pretreatment, rapid-rate granular media filtration, slow-sand filtration, and diatomaceous-earth filtration systems in this book. Water Filtration Practices: Including Slow Sand Filters and Precoat Filtration, provides recommended procedures for operating, monitoring, and maintaining all types of filters used for conventional water treatment. Learn how to mix and feed chemicals, monitor filter performance during difficult water episodes, backwash and return filters to service, inspect and maintain filters for optimal performance. These procedures are tested and time-proven by hundreds of water utilities and filtration experts to provide high filter efficiency, excellent water quality, long filter runs and minimum downtime. The book also gives advice on what not to do—and why—so you can avoid water quality problems, filter damage, and treatment problems in the future.
 

ISBN: 9781583215951

Author: Gary S. Logsdon

Publisher: American Water Works Association

Publication date: 2008

AWWA catalog no: 20647

Media Type: SOFTBOUND
Number of pages: 312