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University of Massachusetts Amherst

Environmental Engineering

1994

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Pilot Scale Investigation Of Dissolved Air Flotation Performance For Drinking Water Treatment: An Evalutation Of Process Parameters, Paul D. Schmidt May 1994

Pilot Scale Investigation Of Dissolved Air Flotation Performance For Drinking Water Treatment: An Evalutation Of Process Parameters, Paul D. Schmidt

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The West River Treatment Plant (WRTP) is a 10.2 million gallon per day inline direct filtration plant. Pilot scale studies have been performed at the WRTP since 1989 to evaluate treatment alternatives to meet changing regulations and to explore a possible plant expansion. Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) was evaluated during 1992 in a pilot train consisting of ozonation (either pre- or intermediate-), two stage flocculation, flotation, and filtration. The DAF train was studied as a method of plant expansion whereby solids removal by DAF would allow for increased hydraulic loading rates to the filters. The effects of several DAF train …