Project 109

GAC Filter Adsorbers

$62,332
Completed
Principal Investigator
Vernon Snoeyink
Project Manager
Nancy McTigue
Contractor
University of Illinois at Urbana
Advanced Treatment
Constituents of Emerging Concern (CECs)
Treatment
Water Quality

Abstract

Describes pros and cons of using GAC in conventional media beds for removing organics and turbidity, based on an evaluation of existing published data, a survey of utilities with retrofitted filter adsorbers, and data collection. Published in 1987.

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