Water filtration practices : including slow sand filters and precoat filtration / Gary S. Logsdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Logsdon, Gary S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water--Purification--Filtration.

Water.

Water--Purification--Slow sand filtration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Denver, Colo. : American Water Works Association, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. 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.

Contents:

""Water Filtration Practices""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Pretreatment: Management and Monitoring of Chemical Coagulation and Lime Softening""; ""Chemical Feed and Mixing, Flocculation, and Clarification""; ""Granular Media Filtration Concepts, Operation, and Management""; ""Water Treatment Under Difficult Raw Water Conditions""; ""Backwashing Filters""; ""Returning Filters to Service After Backwashing""; ""Monitoring Filter Performance""; ""Quality Control for the Laboratory and Plant""

""Filter Inspection and Maintenance""""Slow Sand Filtration""; ""Precoat Filtration""; ""Glossary""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61300-084-7

OCLC:

778432700