“Innovative Applications of Treatment Processes for Spent Filter Backwash”

Principal Investigators: David Cornwell (EE&T), John Tobiason, Michael MacPhee (Malcolm Pirnie)

Sponsor: Awwa Research Foundation

Duration: 10/05 – 3/08

Synopsis: UMass subcontract to conduct bench-scale experiments of innovative membrane processes for treatment of waste or spent filter backwash from filtration processes. Also assist with collection of lamella sedimentation process performance at full-scale SFBW treatment facilities.

Graduate Students: Kenneth Mercer, Anh Nguyen

Status: Completion early 2008

AWC Mystic Lantern Hill WTP

Presentations
AWWA WQTC 2007, Charlotte NC. Project report in 2008.

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