AWWA WQTC62516

As regulations continue to become more and more stringent with regards to turbidity and total organic carbon(TOC) removal in drinking water treatment using surface water, it is increasingly important for facilities to optimize their granular media filtration and to keep it optimized at all times. Themost important function of granular media filtration is particle capture and retention. Theprimary vehicle to manipulate particle removal within the filter is coagulation/flocculation. Inrecent years, automated instrumentation has been made available which predicts optimumparticle removal within the filters. This instrumentation can be run automatically and has the potential to allow operations staff to improve their overall plant performance without havingto invest large amounts of capital in additional personnel and facilities (pilot-scale plants, forexample). The pilot-scale investigation discussed here has utilized these state-of-the-art flocparticle characterization technologies in conjunction with a pilot-scale water treatmentfacility at the City of Golden, Colorado in order to demonstrate how plant performance canbe improved and maintained without significant impact to operations staff utilizing the newtechnologies. Includes 5 references, table, figures.

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Edition:

Vol. - No.

Published:

11/01/2005

Number of Pages:

11

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1 file , 1 MB