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