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Filtration Process Troubleshooting

This document outlines potential triggers, actions, and process changes to troubleshoot filtration process problems. Triggers include changes in water quality parameters, clarification process quality, and filtration problems. Possible actions include analyzing water quality, assessing overall performance, jar testing, and verifying doses. Possible process changes include adjusting coagulant dosage, mixing intensity, sludge removal frequency, filtration rate, and backwash cycle. The goal is to identify triggers, take corrective actions, and implement targeted process changes to resolve issues with turbidity, color, pH, or chlorine demand in the filter outflow.

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Filtration Process Troubleshooting

This document outlines potential triggers, actions, and process changes to troubleshoot filtration process problems. Triggers include changes in water quality parameters, clarification process quality, and filtration problems. Possible actions include analyzing water quality, assessing overall performance, jar testing, and verifying doses. Possible process changes include adjusting coagulant dosage, mixing intensity, sludge removal frequency, filtration rate, and backwash cycle. The goal is to identify triggers, take corrective actions, and implement targeted process changes to resolve issues with turbidity, color, pH, or chlorine demand in the filter outflow.

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FILTRATION PROCESS TROUBLESHOOTING

Trigger Possible Actions Possible Process


Changes
Sources Water Quality Changes
Changes in :  Perform necessary analysis  Adjust coagulant dosage.
 Turbidity  Asses overall process performance  Adjust mixer/flocculator mixing intensity.
 Colour  Perform jar test  Change frequency of sludge removal
 pH  Increase frequency of monitoring (increase or decrease)
 Temperature  Verify responses to process changes  Change filtration rate (add or delete filters)
 Alkalinity  Add lime or caustic soda if alkalinity is low.  Adjust backwash cycle. (rate, duration)
 Chlorine demand

Clarification Process Quality Changes


Changes in :  Asses overall performance.  Adjust coagulant dosage.
 Turbidity or floc carryover  Perform jar test.  Adjust mixer/flocculator mixing intensity.
 Metal ion residual carryover.  Check that selected chemical doses are being  Change frequency of sludge removal
applied. (increase or decrease)
 Change filtration rate (add or delete filters)
 Adjust backwash cycle. (rate, duration)
Filtration Problem

Changes resulting in :  Asses overall performance.  Adjust coagulant dosage.


 Head loss increase  Perform jar test.  Adjust mixer/flocculator mixing intensity.
 Short filter runs  Verify responses to process changes  Change frequency of sludge removal
 Media surface sealing  Manually remove mudballs. (increase or decrease)
 Mudballs  Replenish loss media  Decrease filtration rate
 Filter media cracks, shrinkage  Check head loss indicator for correct  Adjust backwash cycle. (rate, duration)
 Filter will not clean operations.
 Media loss
 Excessive head loss

Filter Outflow Quality Changes


Changes resulting in :  Asses overall performance.  Adjust coagulant dosage.
 Turbidity breakthrough  Perform jar test.  Adjust mixer/flocculator mixing intensity.
 Color  Verify process performance.  Change frequency of sludge removal
 pH a) Coagulation-flocculation process (increase or decrease)
 Chlorine demand b) Clarification process  Decrease filtration rate
c) Filtration process  Change chlorine dosage.

 Verify response to process changes at


appropriate time.

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