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Waste water treatment, results for AFM®
Wastewater Typical Performance
advantage
Suspended solids
COD/BOD/TOC
Turbidity
Ammonium
Bacteria TTC
THMs
Back-wash profile >90% reduction
>90% reduction
No change with AFM®
50% reduction
50% to 90% reduction
Used to check performance
Independent tests conducted by Spanish Water Company and reported in Technology del Agua, December 2009, page 47.
SS. (mg/l)
Performance
%
Turbidity
ntu
Performance
%
inlet outlet RGF sand filter with
sand 7.14 2.2 69 3.5 2.23 36 Pressure filter with
sand 8.18 3.82 53 5.87 4.76 18 22311
Moving bed sand
filter with sand 7.08 3.82 46 2.13 1.79 16 14.66 7.33 50 7.16 3.88 5.6 3.1 44 2.22 2.06 7.41 3.98 46 3.01 3.17 10.60 0.89 96% 2.98 0.24
Drum filter 10 micron
Disc Filter
10 micron
Ring Filter 10 micron
AFM® Pressure filter
Dryden Aqua Ltd
Butlerfield-Bonnyrigg,
Edinburgh EH19 3JQ Scotland
inlet outlet
bacteria
inlet
Performance
%
outlet
m3/m2/h
46 1.2
18023 19 4.96
14067 10307 26 5.4
45 56712 38460 32 3.23
7 30450 21138 30 2.12
9447 7761 17 2.5
23000 10000 58 % 3.59
92 %
23120.0 12300.0
Filtration
Velocity
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