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SCUM BREAKER [3 records]

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Record 1 2012-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
CONT

Spraying digested of fresh sludge on the scum. Mechanical destruction of the scum by means of an agitator. Figure 5: Scum-Breaker systems.

Key term(s)
  • scum-breaker system
  • scum drag

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
DEF

Agitateur présent dans un digesteur pour briser la croûte ou en éviter la formation.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biomass Energy
CONT

The obvious logical answer [to scum building] was for a device to be left inside the digester - a mechanism that would float at the scum level with drag wires holding the drag in place. The end of the drag wire would be secured in a hook accessible from the outside through the 15 in. collar at the outlet end ... Figure 13- Scum drag.

Key term(s)
  • scum breaker
  • scum-breaker system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Énergie de la biomasse
CONT

[Dans une cuve de digestion] Un brise-croûte, consistant en une grille montée sur un flotteur [...] animé d'un mouvement de va-et-vient [et] actionné après avoir arrêté l'installation et vidé en grande partie la cuve.

Spanish

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Record 3 1982-08-31

English

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

The imhoff tank is a combination of a digester and a superimposed primary settling-tank. ... Operational problems are often created by the ... formation at the top of the digester of a scum layer consisting of floating matter ... The digester must be equipped with powerful means for breaking up the scum...

French

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

La fosse imhoff est une combinaison d'un digesteur et d'un décanteur primaire [...]. Des difficultés d'exploitation proviennent fréquemment de la remontée dans le décanteur de boues flottées par le gaz, ainsi que de la formation à la partie supérieure du digesteur d'un "chapeau" de matières flottantes [...] constitué de fibres et de graisses difficilement biodégradables [...]. Le digesteur doit être équipé d'un dispositif puissant de destruction du chapeau [...]. Pendant longtemps ces "brise-chapeau" ont été constitués par des agitateurs ou des impulseurs disposés à la surface libre des boues [...]

Spanish

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