Effect in water purification by airlift sand filter in aquaculture system

Traditional pressure sand filter after long time working intercepts large amounts of solid particles and leads to difficult backwash. In order to solve these problems, this study developed an airlift sand filter that can backwash itself while operating by optimizing a traditional filter. The airlift sand filter itself had filtration, separation, flotation, and self-cleaning functions, and could replace the traditional sand filters such as filter cell without valve, mechanical air flotation and other physical filtration device in aquaculture workshop. The airlift sand filter has the advantages of simple equipment, convenient operation, backwash without stopping the equipment, smooth and continuous system running, low energy consumption and easy to maintain and repair. The efficiency of the airlift sand filter used for marine recirculating aquaculture systems of the suspended solids (SS) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) was tested. Results showed that removal efficiency of SS and COD by this filter was 41.31% a