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In 1 Makeup carbon

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Place top of drain bin Drain
below hydraulic
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gradient
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Spent carbon
drain bin
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Water out
Carbon column

Carbon movement 1

Water in ~ _=
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Figure 5.8 Schematic of a pulsed flow adsorber (adapted and redrawn from Faust
and Al), 1987).

carbon loss through attrition and elutriation seem to have caused all the
plants to have been closed down.