The AquaABF® Automatic Backwash Filter is a continuous rapid-rate downflow filter. This type of granular media gravity filter has been used successfully for decades in the treatment of potable water. It is an efficient means of reducing turbidity and suspended solids in industrial water treatment systems.

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FILTERING - The AquaABF® is designed to filter water and backwash filter cells simultaneously during normal operation. By design, the AquaABF® filter bed is divided horizontally into 8” or 12” wide cells. Inlet water floods the sand bed through multiple inlet ports via gravity and flows through the granular media and porous plate. Filtrate passes through the effluent backwash port and into the effluent channel.
BACKWASH - Backwashing occurs under the hood, which is suspended below the traveling carriage of the AquaABF®. During backwash, the carriage and attached hood move slowly across the filter bed. This action consecutively isolates and backwashes each individual cell. Cells not under the hood continue the filtering process as the hood and carriage continue across the AquaABF® filter bed. A backwash pump draws filtered water from the effluent chamber and backwashes each cell by pumping water back through the effluent port. Another pump picks up the washwater, which has collected in the hood and discharges it to the washwater trough. The backwash water filtration system backwash cycle occurs only when needed because of headloss or, if desired, by preselected time cycle.
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