Activated carbon : solutions for improving water quality

This book focuses on the solutions activated carbon filtering provides, including the challenges facing water providers to provide safe water. While demonstrating the value of activated carbon in difficult times, coverage includes utilities experiences and applications plus various design and procurement approaches. Appendices include case studies and life cycle assessments "Many books have been written about granular activated carbon. Some focus on the theory of performance and removal mechanisms while others focus on design features. This book focuses on solutions. It describes the challenges facing water providers to provide safe water that is acceptable to their customers, utility experiences using activated carbon, activated carbon applications, and design and procurement approaches. The appendices include detailed case studies and a life-cycle assessment demonstrating favorable sustainability considerations for activated carbon when compared to other treatment technologies. Never before has all of this information been together in one location. The what, why, and how of activated carbon are connected in this book and demonstrate why this treatment technology has maintained its status as an integral treatment technology in the quest for pure water over millennia"-- Provided by publisher Contents 6 List of Figures 10 List of Tables 16 Authors and Editor 18 Acknowledgments 22 Preface 24 Introduction 26 List of Abbreviations and Acronyms 34 Part 1 Activated Carbon Adsorption Technologies 36 Fundamentals of Adsorption 38 Powdered Activated Carbon Systems 50 Granular Activated Carbon Systems 56 Part 2 Adsorption Applications 64 Activated Carbon Application Approaches 66 Dissolved Organic Matter Control 108 Taste-and-Odor Control 124 Activated Carbon for Organic Contaminant Control 142 Part 3 Design and Procurement of Activated Carbon Systems 170 Gravity GAC Treatment System Design 172 Pressure GAC Treatment System Design 206 Vapor-Phase GAC Treatment Design 232 On-Site GAC Reactivation Design 250 PAC Feed System Design 276 Activated Carbon System Implementation and Economic Considerations 294 Appendix A 314 Appendix B 322 Index 342