Design for a flat bottom sludge blanket clarifier

Question

Can someone guide me on the process design for a flat bottom sludge blanket clarifier for a municipal drinking water treatment plant?
Much appreciated!

George Farrell · Answer

www.biocleanener.com

João Castro · Answer

Is the objective to treat the sludge from the decanter?

João Castro · Answer

Why flat bottom? I'm curious about that. Typically, a design like this uses an upstream clarifier. Is the turbidity too high? Tell me what has been defined.

Trudi Schifter · Answer

Karl-Uwe Schmitz perhaps something you can help with?

John Salonich · Answer

There are a variety of sludge blanket clarifiers. Each has their own nuance for using the sludge to aid in treatment, I would source information from the various vendors, as there are Pulsator, Actiflo, et. al. Great place to start is with vendor technical literature available online and then develop matrix of the differences and similarities then determine which would most closely fit your process requirements based on the wastewater characteristics for your project.

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