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Rapid Gravity Sand Filter with Backwash
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Rapid Gravity Sand Filter with Backwash

The slow sand filter, already published here, cleans water with a living skin of microbes on its surface, and it does it at about 0.1 to 0.3 metres an hour. To supply a city that way you need acres of it. The rapid filter runs at five to fifteen metres an hour — fifty times faster — through coarser sand, and it has no living skin at all. It cannot: nothing survives being scoured daily. It works only because the water reaching it has already been coagulated, so the particles arrive as flocs that stick to the grains instead of passing between them. And because it clogs in hours rather than months, it needs the invention that actually made it practical — reversing the flow to blow the bed clean. Build one in a clear pipe so you can watch the dirt go in, and watch it come back out.
Дунд шат
1 day

Зааварчилгаа

1

Build the column

Stand a 1-metre length of wide pipe upright, closed at the bottom with an outlet and a valve, and a second valve and inlet near the base for the backwash. A clear pipe is worth hunting for: half the lesson here is visible. Fit a false floor 5 cm above the bottom — a perforated disc under a circle of mesh — so water can leave evenly across the whole area. Without it the flow funnels to the outlet and you filter through a cone of sand while the rest sits idle.

Энэ алхмын материал:

ПВХ хоолойПВХ хоолой1 length
Бөмбөлөгт хаалтБөмбөлөгт хаалт2 ширхэг
2

Grade the bed, coarse at the bottom

Lay 10 cm of gravel on the false floor, then 5 cm of coarse grit, then 50 cm of washed sand of about 0.6 to 1.0 mm grain. Wash each layer until the rinse runs clear before the next goes in. Coarse at the bottom, fine at the top is deliberate: the gravel supports the sand without letting it escape into the outlet. Unwashed sand is the classic first failure — the fines wash straight through and your first filtrate is muddier than what you put in.

Энэ алхмын материал:

ХайргаХайрга10 литр
ЭлсЭлс30 литр

Шаардлагатай багаж:

ХувинХувин
3

Feed it coagulated water, not raw water

Treat your raw water with alum first and let the floc form. Feed the column from a header bucket so the water level above the sand stays roughly constant, and open the outlet valve until you get a steady stream. Run raw, uncoagulated water through it once, deliberately, and watch what happens: it comes out nearly as cloudy as it went in. Rapid sand on its own is a strainer with gaps far bigger than the clay it is meant to catch. Coagulation is not an optional pre-step, it is the half of the process that does the removing.

Шаардлагатай багаж:

ХувинХувин
Хэмжих цилиндрХэмжих цилиндр
4

Watch the head loss build

Mark the water level above the sand every ten minutes. As the bed loads with floc, the resistance climbs and the level rises — that rise is head loss, and it is how a works knows the filter is full. Keep going and you will see the second failure mode. When head loss gets high enough the trapped floc is pushed straight through and the filtrate goes cloudy again: breakthrough. A real plant washes on head loss OR on turbidity, whichever comes first, and never waits for breakthrough.

Шаардлагатай багаж:

Секунд хэмжигчСекунд хэмжигч
Хэмжих цилиндрХэмжих цилиндр
5

Backwash — the invention that made it work

Shut the inlet, open the bottom valve to the mains or to a raised bucket, and push clean water UP through the bed until it lifts and boils. Send the dirty overflow to waste. Two or three minutes usually does it; stop when the water running off is clear. You should see the bed expand by 20 to 30 per cent and the grains tumble. Too gentle and the dirt stays put; too fierce and you wash your sand down the drain with it. Then shut it off and watch the sand settle: it grades itself, fine on top, coarse below, every single time. That self-sorting is why the filter works the same way after the hundredth wash as after the first.

Шаардлагатай багаж:

ХувинХувин
6

Filtration rate, run length and the cost of speed

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Шаардлагатай багаж:

Хэмжих цилиндрХэмжих цилиндр
Секунд хэмжигчСекунд хэмжигч
7

Know what you have and have not removed

Compare raw, settled and filtered water side by side in clear jars against a white sheet. A working rapid filter fed coagulated water should give you a visibly clear filtrate. Clear is not safe. Rapid filtration removes turbidity and a good share of the larger microbes attached to it, but it leaves plenty behind — and unlike slow sand, it has no biological layer doing quiet extra work. Every rapid filter plant in the world is followed by a disinfection step. That is the next rung.

Шаардлагатай багаж:

Шилэн савШилэн сав

Материал

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  • Түр орлуулагч
  • Түр орлуулагч
  • 10 литр
    Түр орлуулагч
  • 30 литр
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Шаардлагатай багаж

4

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