Project 108
Polymeric Inorganic Coagulants
$160,821
Principal Investigator
Charles O'Melia
AWWA employee on loan to WRF
Jon DeBoer
Contractor
Johns Hopkins University
Research Impact
Defines appropriate conditions for application of the relatively new inorganic polymers of iron and aluminum salts (both commercially available preparations and those manufactured on site) and when and how they may be used as coagulants in potable water treatment. Published in 1989.