Media properties and their effect on filter performance and backwashing

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 6 pt 5, 1998, Pages 105-111

  Fitzpatrick, C S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attrition; Backwashing; Collapse pulsing; Filtration; Fluidisation; Triple media filter

Indexed keywords

FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FLUIDIZATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; WATER TREATMENT;

ATTRITION; BACKWASHING; TRIPLE MEDIA FILTER;

WATER FILTRATION;

FILTER MATERIAL; GRANULAR MEDIUM; PERFORMANCE; WATER TREATMENT;

AIRFLOW; BIOFILTRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENSITY; EXPERIMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; WATER FLOW; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0031792234     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(98)00571-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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