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http://dx.doi.org/10.11001/jksww.2019.33.1.079

An experimental study on the filtration test of cotton ball filters  

Kim, Sunghong (Department of Civil Engineering, Chosun University)
Kim, Heejun (SRHuman Tech. Inc. R&D Center)
Kim, Donghan (Department of Environmental Engineering, Seowon University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater / v.33, no.1, 2019 , pp. 79-86 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to measure the filtration characteristics of a cotton ball shape filter, the experiments of suspended solids(SS) surrogate material selection and filtration performance have been carried out in this study. Between the two materials of powdered activated carbon(PAC) and powdered red-clay, PAC is more suitable surrogate material in terms of experimental criteria and particle size distribution in the non-point source pollutants removal system. As a result of the filtration experiments with the cotton ball shape filter, the initial headloss was about 8 cm, and the headloss slightly increased over filtration time. The Kozeny-Carman equation was used to analyze the changes of pressure and porosity during the filtration. The initial porosity was calculated as 0.945 and it decreased to 0.936 at the end of design filtration time. As the filtration continued, the SS concentration of the filtered water gradually increased and the SS removal rate gradually decreased. When the SS target removal efficiency is assumed to be 80%, the cumulative SS removal capacity is expected as $28.8kg/m^2$. This means the volume loading rate of the cotton ball shape filter can be $115m^3/m^2$ when the typical SS concentration of non-point source water pollution is assumed as 250 mg/L.
Keywords
Cotton ball; Filtration; Kozeny-Carman equation; Non-point source water pollution; Particle size analysis;
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