Drinking water coagulation-microfiltration

Chwirka, J.D., Colvin, C., Gomez, J.D. and Mueller, P.A. (2004) Arsenic removal from drinking water using the coagulation/microfiltration process. Journal of American Water Works Association, 96(3), 106-14. 

Arsenic in drinking water supplies can be removed by a variety of treatment processes including those cited in Table 1, which also lists the typical applications of each process. All these processes do a much better job of removing As(V) compared with As(III). Thus, before using these processes, it will often be necessary to oxidize As(in) to As(V) using chlorine or an alternative oxidant. This chapter focuses arsenic treatment by metal-oxide adsorption (MOA), ion exchange (IX), and iron (III) coagulation-microfiltration (C-MF), because these processes have proven to be the most efficient and cost effective in bench- and pilot-scale studies, especially for point-of-use (POU), point-of-entry (POE), wellhead, and small community treatment systems. 

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