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Grain displacement during backwash of drinking water filters
Backwashing rapid sand filters causes inadvertent displacement of filter media grains from their previous depths. This displacement can affect the hydraulic function of filters by mixing or segregating media grains, and the function of biofilters through displacement of active biomass and coatings from proper depths. This study quantifies grain displacement in a pilot-scale filter using tracer grains of colored sand, glass beads, anthracite and garnet to determine the effect of grain size, density and shape on grain displacement. Statistical moments are used to describe the depth distributions resulting from displacement during backwashing. Results show that significant grain displacement occurs during backwash consisting of air scour, air-and-water wash and sub-fluidization water-only wash. Here, displacement is largely independent of grain size, density and shape. When fluidization backwash is used, greater displacement and more dependence on grain characteristics is seen. A variety of grain movement phenomena can be observed during the backwashing steps, indicating that grain movement and therefore the resulting displacement is highly inhomogeneous in four dimensions. These results have direct practical implications for the design of rapid sand filters and the optimization of backwashing procedures, while suggesting that the current widespread backwashing practice used in the case study country (Denmark) should be abandoned.
Grain displacement during backwash of drinking water filters
Backwashing rapid sand filters causes inadvertent displacement of filter media grains from their previous depths. This displacement can affect the hydraulic function of filters by mixing or segregating media grains, and the function of biofilters through displacement of active biomass and coatings from proper depths. This study quantifies grain displacement in a pilot-scale filter using tracer grains of colored sand, glass beads, anthracite and garnet to determine the effect of grain size, density and shape on grain displacement. Statistical moments are used to describe the depth distributions resulting from displacement during backwashing. Results show that significant grain displacement occurs during backwash consisting of air scour, air-and-water wash and sub-fluidization water-only wash. Here, displacement is largely independent of grain size, density and shape. When fluidization backwash is used, greater displacement and more dependence on grain characteristics is seen. A variety of grain movement phenomena can be observed during the backwashing steps, indicating that grain movement and therefore the resulting displacement is highly inhomogeneous in four dimensions. These results have direct practical implications for the design of rapid sand filters and the optimization of backwashing procedures, while suggesting that the current widespread backwashing practice used in the case study country (Denmark) should be abandoned.
Grain displacement during backwash of drinking water filters
Loren Ramsay (author) / Feng Du (author) / Majbritt Lund (author) / Haiyan He (author) / Ditte A. Søborg (author)
2021
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