Question: [ Filtration ] ( 4 0 points ) Engineers without Borders at the University of Toledo has been assigned to build a tri - media

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Engineers without Borders at the University of Toledo has been assigned to build a tri-media filter in a water treatment plant in a small city in Venezuela.
The filter has a 0.5 m crushed anthracite coal layer (specific gravity=1.20), a 0.3 m sand layer (specific gravity=2.65), and a 0.1 m garnet layer (specific gravity=4.20). The average sizes of the particles in the three layers are 1.5mm,0.8mm, and 0.30 mm , respectively. The shape factor (sphericity) values are 0.9 and the porosities of the three layers are 0.47 for anthracite, 0.40 for sand, and 0.50 for garnet. The filtration rate is 3.40Ls-m2 and the water temperature is 10C(Note: treat each layer as a bed of uniform particles).
Using the Rose equation, determine the total clean bed head loss for the tri-media filter.
[ Filtration ] ( 4 0 points ) Engineers without

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