Filtration Rate of Ceramic Clay Filters Treated With Rice Husk

Sule Joseph, Osegbowa Enugan Douglas

Abstract


The availability of pure, clean and safe usable water for drinking and other domestic use is a major challenge faced by most developing nations' rural communities. In the pursuit to make available safe, pure and clean usable water, a ceramic clay filter produced from clay soil is used as an absorbent barrier in household water treatment. To investigate the effectiveness of rate of flow through ceramic clay filters when treated with up to 20 % rice husk, five different ceramics filters were produced at 0 %, 5 %, 10 %, 15 %, and 20 % addition of rice husk in the laboratory and were sintered at 1000O C. Water flow rate were measured for the ceramic clay filters produced by measuring the volume of filtrate. It was found that the volume of filtrate increased as the percentage of rice husk added to the clay soil increased.


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