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An alternative to using the foam simply as a flat sheet which water is filtered through is to design a hybrid upflow filter, which uses small pieces of the foam as the filtering material, as opposed to the traditional upflow sand filter. This idea is based on the technique outlined in this article:
http://www.wioa.org.au/conference_papers/06_vic/documents/StewartShipard.pdf
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