Pressure Sand Filter

The Pressure Sand Filter/Multigrade Sand Filter is a depth filter that makes use of coarse and fine media mixed together in a fixed proportion. This arrangement produces a filter bed with adequate pore dimensions for retaining both large and small suspended particles. This filter performs at a substantially higher specific flow rate than conventional filters. Specific flow rates of 15 – 30 M/Hr. have been successfully obtained for treating water containing 50-25ppm suspended solids respectively to produce a filtrate with less than 5ppm. The Multigrade sand filter can handle feed water upto 25 NTU turbidity and the treated water from this range of filters will have