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Gravity Filtration

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Physicochemical Treatment Processes

Part of the book series: Handbook of Environmental Engineering ((HEE,volume 3))

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The purpose of filtration is to remove the particulates suspended in water by passing the water through a layer of porous material. Larger particulates are retained by straining and sedimentation, while colloidal matter is retained by adsorption, or coagulation and sedimentation. Biological interactions occur only when the water passes very slowly through the porous mass.

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  1. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    J. Paul Chen PhD

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC

    Shoou-Yuh Chang PhD, PE

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

    Jerry Y. C. Huang PhD

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, IA

    E. Robert Bauman PhD

  5. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH

    Yung-Tse Hung PhD, PE, DEE

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Chen, J.P., Chang, SY., Huang, J.Y.C., Bauman, E.R., Hung, YT. (2005). Gravity Filtration. In: Wang, L.K., Hung, YT., Shammas, N.K. (eds) Physicochemical Treatment Processes. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 3. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-820-x:501

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