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PRESSURIZED AIR FLOTATION [1 record]

Record 1 2011-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

Experimental Methods in Sanitary Engineering. ... Hydraulic modelling and testing combined sewer overflows, separation efficiency of swirl, vortex and helical bend CSO - separators, oxygenation capacity, fine bubble aeration, diffusors, continuous thickening, inductive tensometers, transport of non-Newton media, head losses in conduits, thickening of sludges, pressure flotation, equalisation, multistage equalisation mixed tanks.

OBS

Pressure flotation unit performance is commonly related to the ratio of the weight of air utilized to the weight of solids supplied to the unit, A/S.

OBS

flotation: A method of causing separation of undesirable substances from water or liquid wastes.

Key term(s)
  • pressurized air flotation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Traitement des eaux usées
OBS

La flottation est un procédé qui consiste à séparer des matières en suspension dans un liquide en les amenant à la surface, soit par insufflation d'air, soit en augmentant la densité du liquide, soit en formant des mousses.

Spanish

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