Water Filtration Practice: Including Slow Sand Filters and Precoat Filtration (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781583215951)

Water operators will find a wealth of hands-on information on the operation and maintenance of pretreatment, rapid-rate granular media filtration, slow-sand filtration, and diatomaceous-earth filtration systems in this book. This practical guide provides recommended procedures for operating, monitoring, and maintaining all types of filters used for conventional water treatment. These procedures are tested and time-proven by hundreds of water utilities and filtration experts to provide high filter efficiency, excellent water quality, long filter runs and minimum downtime. The book also gives advice on what not to do-and why-so you can avoid water quality problems, filter damage, and treatment problems in the future.

Author: Gary S. Logsdon
ISBN-10: 1583215956
ISBN-13: 9781583215951
Publisher: American Water Works Association
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2008
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2008 pg. 144
Library Journal Supplements 11/15/2008 pg. 74