Water Filtration Practices: Including Slow Sand Filters and Precoat Filtration

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.This practical guide 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.Also available as a Google Play ebook

Author: Gary S. Logsdon

Publisher: American Water Works Association

Publication Date: Jan 01, 2008

Number of Pages: 312 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1583215956

ISBN-13: 9781583215951