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TRICKLING FILTER DESIGN
Bruce Lesikar
Associate Professor
Texas Cooperative Extension
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Trickling Filter System
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Trickling Filter
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Trickling Filter Design
• Each trickling filter has several components:– Septic tank.– Clarifier/dosing tank.– Trickling filter.– Land application system.
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Trickling Filter Design-Clarifier/Dosing Tank
• It is a concrete or fiberglass tank that allows biological materials to settle out of the water.
• It also houses a pump to dose water over the top of the filter.
• Return water from the filter, enters the tank.
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Trickling Filter Design-Trickle Filter
• A trickling filter, which is a tank of media such as gravel of plastic material.
• Wastewater is distributed over the top of the media and flows downward across the media surface in a thin film.
• It then exits the bottom of the tank and flows into the clarifier/dosing tank.