A separation recovery system for separating and recovering an object to be separated includes a metal porous membrane which has a first principal surface and a second principal surface facing the first principal surface and has a plurality of through-holes extending between the first principal surface and the second principal surface, a supply device which supplies a first fluid containing the object to be separated from the first principal surface of the metal porous membrane toward the second principal surface, and a backwash device which supplies a second fluid containing a plurality of particles larger than a size of the plurality of through-holes of the metal porous membrane in a direction from the second principal surface of the metal porous membrane toward the first principal surface.

A separation recovery system for separating and recovering an object to be separated includes a metal porous membrane which has a first principal surface and a second principal surface facing the first principal surface and has a plurality of through-holes extending between the first principal surface and the second principal surface, a supply device which supplies a first fluid containing the object to be separated from the first principal surface of the metal porous membrane toward the second principal surface, and a backwash device which supplies a second fluid containing a plurality of particles larger than a size of the plurality of through-holes of the metal porous membrane in a direction from the second principal surface of the metal porous membrane toward the first principal surface.

Disclosed herein is a water purifying system, including: a raw water tank configured to store raw water; a filter unit configured to include a plurality of filtration modules for purifying the raw water and a plurality of valves for feeding or cutting off the raw water; a raw water pump configured to feed the raw water from the raw water tank to the filter unit; and a backwash module configured to feed backwash water to the filter unit, in which some of permeate water permeated by the filter unit is fed to the backwash module to be used as the backwash water and a feed pressure of the backwash water is fed by the raw water pump.

A separation recovery system for separating and recovering an object to be separated includes a metal porous membrane which has a first principal surface and a second principal surface facing the first principal surface and has a plurality of through-holes extending between the first principal surface and the second principal surface, a supply device which supplies a first fluid containing the object to be separated from the first principal surface of the metal porous membrane toward the second principal surface, and a backwash device which supplies a second fluid containing a plurality of particles larger than a size of the plurality of through-holes of the metal porous membrane in a direction from the second principal surface of the metal porous membrane toward the first principal surface.

Disclosed herein is a water purifying system, including: a raw water tank configured to store raw water; a filter unit configured to include a plurality of filtration modules for purifying the raw water and a plurality of valves for feeding or cutting off the raw water; a raw water pump configured to feed the raw water from the raw water tank to the filter unit; and a backwash module configured to feed backwash water to the filter unit, in which some of permeate water permeated by the filter unit is fed to the backwash module to be used as the backwash water and a feed pressure of the backwash water is fed by the raw water pump.

Disclosed herein is a water purifying system, including: a raw water tank configured to store raw water; a filter unit configured to include a plurality of filtration modules for purifying the raw water and a plurality of valves for feeding or cutting off the raw water; a raw water pump configured to feed the raw water from the raw water tank to the filter unit; and a backwash module configured to feed backwash water to the filter unit, in which some of permeate water permeated by the filter unit is fed to the backwash module to be used as the backwash water and a feed pressure of the backwash water is fed by the raw water pump.

A method for operating a filtration apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a method for operating a filtration apparatus including three or more filtration modules, the method including a filtration step in which a filtration treatment is performed using the filtration modules and a cleaning step in which some of the filtration modules are stopped from performing the filtration treatment and the filtration modules stopped from performing the filtration treatment are cleaned simultaneously. A filtration apparatus according to another aspect of the present invention is a filtration apparatus including three or more filtration modules, a collection system that collects a filtrate from the filtration modules, and a cleaning system that cleans some of the filtration modules simultaneously.

Disclosed herein is a water purifying system, including: a raw water tank configured to store raw water; a filter unit configured to include a plurality of filtration modules for purifying the raw water and a plurality of valves for feeding or cutting off the raw water; a raw water pump configured to feed the raw water from the raw water tank to the filter unit; and a backwash module configured to feed backwash water to the filter unit, in which some of permeate water permeated by the filter unit is fed to the backwash module to be used as the backwash water and a feed pressure of the backwash water is fed by the raw water pump.