Guide questions:
1. Why is filtration important in wastewater treatment process?
The importance of water filtration is that it provides people with clean,
contaminant-free water. There are several varieties of filtered water,
but they all provide the same fundamental level of water filtration.
2. What filter media did you use? Explain why you use each media. e.g. coco
coir is used to filter TSS
I use pebbles, carbon, and silica as my filter media. Since carbon
remove all the unwanted chemicals and organic compounds like
chlorine, pesticides, and other Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) that
may be present in the water and also its unpleasant smell. I use this as
well as silica which has the ability to hold back precipitates containing
impurities in sand filters for industrial water and lastly the pebbles which
traps the bigger particles which can be a hindrance in the next process.
3. Describe your filter arrangement. If the filters were arranged backwards,
what will happen?
The filter media is arranged accordingly from the bottom to the
top:
Silica, carbon and pebbles. This must not be arranged backwards
because this has its own purpose. Pebbles is places at the top to filter
the larger particles and the silica is placed at the bottom so that it can
filter the smallest particle that are not suspended in the first two filters
4. Get some of the data from the other students (at least 5). What are the filter
media used for the fastest and most efficient filtration? For the slowest? What
do you think went wrong for the slowest and least efficient filtration?
You will submit a soft copy of the report. Please follow the format I gave you
before.
Student 1:
Filter media: charcoal, gravel and sand
Time:
1st trial: 1:26:33
2nd trial: 32:23
3rd trial: 1:41:17
Student 2:
Filter media: pebbles, charcoal, gravel, cotton, coarse pebbles, fine pebbles
Time:
1st trial: 18mins 07secs
2nd trial: 16mins 19secs
3rd trial: 16mins 19secs
Student 3:
Filter media: Stones, sand, charcoal, cotton
Time:
1st trial: 22min
2nd trial: 35min
3rd trial: 52 min
Student 4:
Filter media: rocks, sand, charcoal and pebbles
Time:
1st trial: 49min
2nd trial: 45min
3rd trial: 34 min
Student 5:
Filter media: sand, charcoal and pebbles
Time:
1st trial: 19min
2nd trial: 25min
3rd trial: 30 min
For the most efficient and fastest filter media: student 2 since she use
pebbles, charcoal, gravel, cotton, coarse pebbles, fine pebbles and she
arranged it where the waste water can easily flow and at the same time, can
filter the waste water efficiently. For the slowest: student 1 but I will not
consider it as not efficient since the result is a much clearer water. The
problem is that the sand and the charcoal is too fine that is why the water had
a hard time to flow in the filter media.
