A Preliminary Investigation on Performance of Multicompartment Sand Filter for Treatment of Grey-Water

Abstract

Water is the vital natural resource for the survival all biotic species. Demand of water is growing day by day as a result of rapid industrialization, production, and growth in population. As a result, it is necessary to look for the alternatives to reduce our freshwater usage. Grey-water treatment appears to be one of the most promising alternatives. The conventional filtration process with sand as a filter media is considered as a cost effective technique for water and waste water treatment. Amongst the various techniques of filtration, the performance of the Multicompartment Sand Filter, a modified version of a sand filter is examined in this paper in four different experimental setups. It is discovered that this sand filter is effective in removing Chemical Oxygen Demand, Total Suspended Solids and turbidity with percentage removal of 95.94%, 89.72%% and 64.69%% respectively. This filter is easy to manage, adaptable, compact and cost effective.