Consider a pilot scale sand filter with the following characteristics. Diameter of cylindrical filter: 80 cm Depth of sand bed: 40 cm Diameter of sand grains: 0.5 mm Porosity in filter bed: 0.45 The filter is used to treat 40 L/min of 25°C water containing 106 particles/mL. The particles have a uniform diameter of 3 µm, a density of 1.5 g/cm³ and have been effectively destabilized (a=1) by a preceding coagulation step. Determine the expected concentration of the particles in the filter effluent during the steady state portion of the filter run.
Consider a pilot scale sand filter with the following characteristics. Diameter of cylindrical filter: 80 cm Depth of sand bed: 40 cm Diameter of sand grains: 0.5 mm Porosity in filter bed: 0.45 The filter is used to treat 40 L/min of 25°C water containing 106 particles/mL. The particles have a uniform diameter of 3 µm, a density of 1.5 g/cm³ and have been effectively destabilized (a=1) by a preceding coagulation step. Determine the expected concentration of the particles in the filter effluent during the steady state portion of the filter run.
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Transcribed Image Text:Consider a pilot scale sand filter with the following characteristics.
Diameter of cylindrical filter: 80 cm
Depth of sand bed: 40 cm
Diameter of sand grains: 0.5 mm
Porosity in filter bed: 0.45
The filter is used to treat 40 L/min of 25°C water containing 106
particles/mL. The particles have a uniform diameter of 3 µm, a
density of 1.5 g/cm³ and have been effectively destabilized (a=1) by
a preceding coagulation step. Determine the expected concentration
of the particles in the filter effluent during the steady state portion of
the filter run.
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