Household slow sand filters in continuous and intermittent flows and their efficiency in microorganism's removal from river water

NM Nasser Fava, UC Terin, BLS Freitas… - Environmental …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… slow sand filter (HSSF) models for the removal of microorganisms from river water throughout
the … Filters were fed daily with 48 L pre-treated river water (24 h sedimentation followed by …

Slow sand filters for the 21st century: A review

JK Maiyo, S Dasika, CT Jafvert - International journal of environmental …, 2023 - mdpi.com
… Only 48% cryptosporidium removal was reported in a slow sand filter using sand with a
uniformity coefficient of 3.5 to 3.8 [23]; in contrast, another study using the same river water

[HTML][HTML] Influence of Particle Size of River Sand on the Decontamination Process in the Slow Sand Filter Treatment of Micro-Polluted Water

X Ji, C Zhao, Y Lv, J Yang, B Li - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
… In this study, the physical adsorption effect of river sand on pollutants … sand filters of laboratory
scale were used to compare the effect of different particle sizes of river sand on raw water

Evaluation of roughing and slow sand filters for water treatment

GE El-Taweel, GH Ali - Water, air, and soil pollution, 2000 - Springer
… The roughing filters utilize raw water from river Nile directly through the intake … water
produced from a roughing filter with gravel in three layers, was passed to different slow sand filters

Performance of modified slow sand filter to reduce turbidity, total suspended solids, and iron in river water as water treatment in disaster areas

N Fitriani, FE Wahyudianto, NF Salsabila… - Journal of Ecological …, 2023 - yadda.icm.edu.pl
… of the slow sand filter modification unit in treating the water of … of sand with silica sand and
geotextile and sand with Anadara … of the treated water using the unit Slow Sand Filter have met …

A critical overview of household slow sand filters for water treatment

BLS Freitas, UC Terin, NMN Fava, PMF Maciel… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
… to improve the quality of drinking water at home through simple, … Sand Filter (HSSF), a
home scale of the slow sand filter, whose main widespread model is the patented biosand filter (…

Depth distribution of suspended matter in the sand layer of slow sand filters that take the surface river water

M YAMAMOTO, N NAKAMOTO - Japanese Journal of Water …, 1996 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… purifier in a slow sand filter. 139-148p, in Graham, N. and R. … Nakamoto : Role of filamentous
algae in a slow sand filter. … harvest method in a pond of a slow sand filter. Verb. Internat. …

[PDF][PDF] Household sand filters for arsenic removal

S Luzi, M Berg, TKT Pham, HV Pham… - Swiss Federal Institute …, 2004 - es.ircwash.org
… Some households in rural areas of the Red River Delta have thus started to use simple
sand filters or settling tanks to remove the iron from the groundwater. Household …

Filter media depth and its effect on the efficiency of household slow sand filter in continuous flow

BLS Freitas, UC Terin, NMN Fava… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
… Additionally, this study evaluated the reduction of river water turbidity by a simple pre-treatment
by sedimentation and passage through blankets and the reduction of microbiological risk …

Household slow sand filter to treat groundwater with microbiological risks in rural communities

FC Andreoli, LP Sabogal-Paz - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
… The weekly introduction of river water was tested as a filter-ripening … river water) to speed
up the HSSF ripening. Ripening consisted of a controlled introduction of river water to the filters