Head loss performance and modeling of burnt oil palm shell in deep bed filtration

Autor: Mohammad Noor, Nora ' aini Ali, Lam Su Shiung, Ahmad Jusoh, S. Goh Eng Giap, A. G. Halim
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Water Supply. 7:141-147
ISSN: 1607-0798
1606-9749
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2007.143
Popis: Filtration is a common unit operation in a water treatment plant. The effectiveness of granular filter media in treating surface water and removing suspended solids is already well established. However, less effort in the mathematical modeling towards the design of the filtration unit is observed. The current study involved head loss performance evaluation and development of a mathematical model to correlate maximum service time of filter at a maximum allowable head loss with various effective sizes and flow rates. Sand and burnt oil palm shell (BOPS) used as filter media in single and dual media filters were subjected to different effective sizes and flow rates. The average influent water turbidity for each filter (at specific effective size and flow rate) before entering the filtration unit was from 1 to 5 NTU. This was a pilot a study on settled water that was conducted in a Malaysian water treatment plant. Results suggest that all filters are capable of producing water with acceptable turbidity unit (
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