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Definition of Filter bed

Filter bed
Filter Fil"ter, n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter.] Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.

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- vessels to filter drinking water, wine and other liquids. A sand bed filter is a kind of depth filter. Broadly, there are two types of filters for separating...
- exemplary slow sand filter is of excellent quality with 90–99% bacterial cell count reduction. Typically, in the UK slow sand filters have a bed depth of 0.3...
- A trickling filter is a type of wastewater treatment system. It consists of a fixed bed of some material, such as rocks, coke, gravel, slag, polyurethane...
- of water filters for muni****l and other large treatment systems include media filters, screen filters, disk filters, slow sand filter beds, rapid sand...
- the filter bed. Next, compressed air is pushed up through the filter material causing the filter bed to expand breaking up the compacted filter bed and...
- residential area, with the notable exception of decommissioned filter beds — the Seething Wells Filter Beds — in the northwest part of the area that borders the...
- The Marlborough Brook Filter Beds are a series of water filtration beds near the mouth of Marlborough Brook, where it enters Sudbury Reservoir near the...
- in the root-bed medium. Suspended solids filter out as they settle in the water column in surface flow wetlands or are physically filtered out by the medium...
- processes whilst retaining the main objective of depth filters. The use of deep bed sand filters as the final step in muni****l potable water treatment...
- Carbon filtering is a method of filtering that uses a bed of activated carbon to remove impurities from a fluid using adsorption. Carbon filtering works...