Project 2620

Impacts of Filter Backwash Recycle on Clarification and Filtration

$517,435
Completed
Principal Investigator
James Edzwald
Project Manager
Emerson S Lomaquahu
Contractor
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Advanced Treatment
Treatment

Research Impact

Determines the impacts, if any, of the recycling of waste filter backwash water on the performance of subsequent solid/liquid separation involving dissolved air flotation or lamella sedimentation clarification and dual media filtration. Tailored Collaboration partner: BHC Company. Published in 2001.