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Operational and Experimental Results of Direct Filtration
Author(s) -
Hutchison W.,
Foley P. D.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1974.tb01978.x
Subject(s) - clogging , filtration (mathematics) , filter (signal processing) , process engineering , environmental science , computer science , pulp and paper industry , environmental engineering , biochemical engineering , engineering , mathematics , statistics , geography , archaeology , computer vision
When new standards demanded new water‐treatment procedures, several Canadian plants switched to direct filtration. It was very quickly found that filters were clogging with diatoms and filter runs were therefore too short. The diatom problem was overcome in several ways, as described in this article.