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Video tech-tip: creating filter profiles

This Video Tech-Tip provides information about how to create and prepare filter profiles.  Filter profiles are a useful tool for assessing filter performance.

In this informative video, Partnership for Safe Water volunteers, Kevin Linder and Brad Zachman of Aurora Water (Colorado), describe the elements of effective filter profile.  Filter profiles are graphs that trend filter effluent turbidity, and other performance data, over an entire filter run, displaying these values as a function of time.  Filter profiles are instrumental to the optimization process because various aspects of the filter run can be visually represented, such start-up, ripening, filter-to-waste, and backwash cycles.  This can help plant staff more easily identify patterns in filter performance and diagnose problems, leading to tangible improvements in filter performance.  Filter profiles are consistently used at Aurora Water, and many utilities, as a useful diagnostic tool and a required element of Phase III and Phase IV reports for the Partnership program.  

Watch this video on the Partnership Resources page to learn how to create data-rich and highly informative filter profiles.

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