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MECHANIZED THICKENER [1 record]

Record 1 1982-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

Thickeners may be either static or mechanized. ... Mechanized thickeners ... The round tank, with a floor slope generally between 10 and 15 [feet] to the horizontal, is equipped with a dual-purpose rotating mechanism: it transfers the settled sludge to the central sludge-collecting hopper by means of scrapers moving immediately above the floor, it helps to free the interstitial water and gases held in the sludge by using a vertical picket fence mounted on the rotating mechanism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

Les épaississeurs peuvent être de type statique ou mécanisé. [...] Épaississeurs mécanisés [...] La cuve cylindrique dont la pente du radier est comprise généralement entre 10 et 15 [pieds] sur l'horizontal est équipée d'un ensemble mécanique tournant dont le rôle est double: assurer le transfert des boues déposées vers la fosse centrale collectrice de boues au moyen de racleurs disposés immédiatement au-dessus du radier, faciliter le dégagement de l'eau interstitielle et des gaz occlus dans les boues au moyen d'une herse verticale accrochée au dispositif tournant.

Spanish

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