COMPACT VALVELESS TERTIARY SAND FILTERS
Add-on filters to effectively meet stringent consent standards for new and existing sewage treatment plant
Features
Add-on unit for new or existing treatment plant
Acts as final stage treatment process to remove a minimum 60% Suspended solids; 40% Biological Oxygen Demand
Can be installed above or below ground
Low cost solution to improving existing treatment plants failing to meet current or new, more onerous, consent standards
Tried and tested design incorporated into WPL's successful range of HiPAF treatment plant
System Design
Population equivalents up to 600
Timed backwash sequence incoporates air scour, combined air scour and backwash, and final rinse phases
Influent can flow by gravity or be pumped into the filter unit
Backwash removes solids trapped in sand filter media and waste backwash water is returned to treatment plant for re-treatment
Units are sized to tackle various flow rates
An additional waste washwater holding tank can be incorporated to control return to works inlet
No need to inhibit inflow to filter during backwash cycle
