backwashable filter system Articles

Backwashng a drinking water system filter means reversing and increasing the water's flow to flush out accumulated debris and particles. Backwashing is not only vital to the life of a filter, it is fundamental to the quality of water coming out of the filter. Sooner or later, all filters need to be backwashed or ...

May 25, 2009

By Entech Design, Inc.

Optimum filter performance has become a critical component of surface water treatment. For conventional and direct filtration systems, LT1ESWTR requires the combined filter effluent turbidity be less than or equal to 0.3 NTU’s for 95% of the readings taken each month. At no time may the readings exceed 1 NTU. As regulations change and filtration is pushed toward the lower limits of turbidity ...

May 25, 2009

By Entech Design, Inc.

The filtration of make-up and side-stream water in closed cooling circuits, operated through cooling towers, is a fundamental step to ensure safe and continuous operations in a power plant. Water - required in large amounts for this application - should not be wasted, and the potential damages deriving from a poor treatment must be avoided at all cost. BONO ARTES has developed a technical ...

Dec. 21, 2008

By Cannon Bono Energia S.p.A. - part of the Cannon Group

Filtration acts as the final step in the removal of suspended matter and protozoa. The accumulated residue is removed during the backwash process and any subsequent recycling of filter backwash water could potentially re-introduce these contaminants into the main treatment process. By separating the filter backwash water from the main treatment process, factors that could interfere with the ...

May 27, 2014

By IWA Publishing

The disadvantages of conventional MMF based pretreatment Conventional pretreatment is based on multimedia filters (MMF) implemented in large scale desalination plants. Although this filtration method is well proven and provides reliable filtration efficiency, it conceals an inherent drawback, the disadvantages of which relate mainly to the backwashing mechanism. The ...

Jan. 31, 2014

By IDE Technologies

An upflow, partially packed biological aerated filter (BAF) reactor was used to remove nitrogen in the form of ammonia ions by a nitrification process that involves physical, chemical and biological phenomena governed by a variety of parameters such as dissolved oxygen concentration, pH and alkalinity. Dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH were shown to have effects on the nitrification process in this ...

Feb. 28, 2011

By IWA Publishing

In drinking water treatment, ultrafiltration (UF) membrane systems are generally operated at 90 to 95% recovery with production losses resulting from waste residual streams such as backwash water and clean-in-place (CIP) liquid residuals. In drought-prone regions, it may be desirable to apply alternative UF plant design configurations to increase recovery rates and minimize water loss. This ...

May 31, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes have become the industry standard for purification of any feed water source. They are used extensively for producing high-purity, low-conductivity process water. They are also used for producing ultrapure water from fresh water because RO is presumed to be the ultimate purifier. Because RO filters are readily fouled by colloidal particles and biofilms, some method ...

May 31, 2006

By Argonide Corporation

ABSTRACTThe Little Falls Run Wastewater Treatment Facility began experiencing operational difficulties with the dual-bay traveling bridge filter process as flows approached the rated capacity for the filters. Although initially the Utilities Department staff intended to duplicate the original filter process and thereby double the capacity, the recent introduction of a cloth media filter product ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

The high-strength municipal sewage was treated by the two-stage Biological Aerated Filter (BAF) pilot system with microorganism carrier of burned clay pellet. The effects of hydraulic loading rate, aeration ratio, overloading, backwashing and the height of media on the performance of BAF were investigated. In higher hydraulic loading and lower ratio of aeration, the two-stage BAF may decrease ...

May 13, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Abstract: There is a need to find cheaper and simpler techniques for rural water filtration system in developing countries. Using a filter made of blocks for the water treatment enables one to make vertical filters. It is expected that the amount of land utilized would decrease by more than 70 % if vertical filters were used. The operation and washing would be simpler than using horizontal sand ...

Aug. 31, 2007

By Center for Environment and Energy Research & Studies (CEERS)

ABSTRACTIn the treatment of domestic wastewater, both biological and physical contaminant removal mechanisms must occur to facilitate compliance with NPDES permit discharge requirements. Static low density media (SLDM) filters can be used to perform both of these duties allowing for the consolidation of various unit operations into one component. Previous studies have shown that both organic and ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

In late 2009, VEI Consultants contacted AdEdge Water Technologies to design, implement and startup an arsenic, iron, and manganese treatment system for the Talkeetna Water System in Talkeetna, Alaska. The existing water supply consisted of a well rated for 250 gpm with an arsenic level of 20 parts per billion (ppb). Iron and manganese levels were 0.04 mg/L and 0.10 mg/L respectively. The water ...

Dec. 31, 2010

By Adedge Water Technologies, LLC

There are many different biological treatments of water available. They’re all similar in a number of ways, but share key differences in the specific ways the water is filtered. This article is an informative breakdown of all the different biological water treatment systems that are available and how they ...

Oct. 23, 2017

By Adedge Water Technologies, LLC

Over the course of the past few decades concern for the environment has brought about a large number of new regulations concerning the use of water in mining operations. These include how it is accessed, and how it is treated, using industrial water filtration to ensure all ...

Apr. 5, 2017

By Filtra Systems

A CONVERSION plant in Mead, Nebraska is processing manure and methane to create ethanol and compost. According to Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman: “This plant sets a new standard for ethanol production in this state and our nation, and is an example of the innovation needed to take this industry to the next level. It lets America get its automotive fuel from the croplands of the Midwest instead ...

Sep. 30, 2007

By BioCycle Magazine

ABSTRACTAs more wastewater treatment facilities upgrade to tertiary treatment for pathogen removal and trace pollutant reduction, the options for tertiary filtration expand. The use of cloth-disk media filtration (disk filters) for tertiary filtration is becoming more common because of the effluent quality, lower backwash rates, small footprint, and ability to meet ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Having an eff ective, durable pretreatment system in advance of ion exchange produced-water softening systems is the fi rst, most critical line of defense – ensuring smooth, more troublefree performance downstream. It’s especially true when dealing with today’s ion exchange technologies, which require TSS (total suspended solids) of 0.1-0.5 mg/L and turbidities of 0.1-1 NTU ...

Apr. 16, 2013

By Eco-Tec Inc.

For industrial companies producing wastewater as part of it’s process, some type of wastewater treatment system is usually necessary to ensure safety precautions and discharge regulations are met. The most appropriate wastewater treatment system will help the facility avoid harming the environment, human health, and a facility’s process or products (especially if the wastewater ...

Dec. 23, 2016

By SAMCO Technologies, Inc.

Appropriate devices for obtaining either interstitial water or grain particle samples or for measuring dissolved oxygen (DO) at depth within the interior of large-scale, industrial granular bed filters are currently lacking. We developed two innovative samplers for studying a Rapid Sand Filter (RSF) at an operational SWRO plant: the first for water and granular material, the second ...

Jul. 6, 2012

By Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR)