Multimedia pressure filters horizontal filter

Multimedia pressure filters can be vertically or horizontally oriented. Figure 8.7 shows a vertical filter while Figure 8.8 shows a horizontal multimedia pressure filter. Horizontal multimedia filters are separated internally into "tanks" or compartments. Each tank acts as an individual filter. When it is time to backwash one of the tanks, the effluent from the other tanks provides the backwash water. The key in selecting horizontal filters is that the filter should have enough internal tanks so that productivity (required effluent flow rate plus the... 

Figure 8.8 Horizontal multimedia pressure filter with 4 internal tanks.

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