摘要 |
Methods and systems of the prior art for cleansing a plurality of seriate filter cells in automatic backwash filters by backwashing the cells one at a time with backwash liquid wherein the cleansing operation on the active cell is prevented from moving to a further cell until the contaminant content of the waste liquid issuing from the previous cell reaches a predetermined low level are improved by overriding such prevention even though such content remains too high when a prescribed quantity of waste liquid has issued from the previous cell, e.g., as determined by a timer or fluid meter.
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