Revista DAE (Nov 2021)

A review of seventeen years of bank filtration in Brazil: results, benefits and challenges - Part 1: state of Santa Catarina

  • Marcelo Luiz Emmendoerfer,
  • Marcelle Martins,
  • Bruno Segalla Pizzolatti,
  • Marcus Bruno Domingues Soares,
  • Aline Maria Signori,
  • Maurício Luiz Sens

DOI
https://doi.org/10.36659/dae.2021.082
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 69, no. 233
pp. 130 – 148

Abstract

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This work is the first part of a national review about Bank Filtration (BF) that began in 2003, in Brazil. These studies were conducted in the laboratory and in the field with water and natural sediment from the study regions, showing how BF has been efficient worldwide for the treatment of water for public supply as an alternative treatment. It aims to show the synthesis of results to date and point out its main benefits and challenges; that is, the state of the art at the national level. The review is concentrated in Santa Catarina (part 1), Pernambuco and Minas Gerais (part 2). BF demonstrates efficiency in reducing parameters such as turbidity and coliforms (total and fecal), pesticides and toxins. However, BF showed low capacity in reducing parameters such as salinity and true color. BF is highly dependent on local geological conditions, so parameters such as iron, manganese, fluorine, alkalinity, hardness, and chlorides can be added to the treated water.

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