Combined air/water backwash in a travelling bridge filter

Liquid purification or separation – Particulate material type separator – e.g. – ion exchange or... – With rehabilitation means

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210274, 210275, 210292, B01D 2414

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054014050

ABSTRACT:
In a travelling bridge filtration system including a tank divided into a plurality of adjacent filter cells, each of the cells containing filter media, a travelling bridge carriage located above the tank and movable along the tank, the carriage supporting a backwash hood engageable with each of the filter cells, the improvement comprising a liquid backwash pump for causing backwash liquid to flow through the cell in a first backwash direction counter to a second filtration direction, and for causing backwash air to be drawn into the cell and to flow in the first direction with the backwash liquid.

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