Prior to the actual treatment process itself, raw waters generally undergo a pre-treatment that involves a series of physical and mechanical steps designed to decant from the wastewater the largest possible amount of materials whose nature or size would cause problems in subsequent treatment processes.
The problems associated with the deficient quality of the raw water (septicity, large variations in flow and/or load, industrial discharges, etc.) inform the need for the pre-treatment to include other mechanical or chemical steps designed to improve the quality of those waters to ensure a better performance by downstream processes or avoid environmental issues.
The use of a pretreatment compact plant in small premises may be the most versatile solution and significantly reduce the building work required.
A QUILTON pretreatment compact plant combines a high performance with very small space requirements.
Pretreatment compact plants have a modular design in order to cater for operations and processes involving different types of waters.
A QUILTON pretreatment compact plant includes the following operations:
A QUILTON pretreatment compact plant has the following structural specifications:
Wastewaters are pumped or flow into the compact plant through its inlet flange. The first step involves the roughing of solids, retaining those particles that are larger than the spacing of the bar screen in place. In this step, the water passes through the screen, with the roughing, extraction, and pre-compacting of the solids prior to their discharge. The spacing on the bar screens in this process tends to be 3-6 mm.
The second step involves the decanting of sands in a tub that acts as a desander. The retention and decanting times are calculated to draw off 95% of the sand particles ≥ 200-250 µm.
The grit is moved by a screw conveyor positioned lengthwise on the bottom, with another extractor screw that removes the sand for its subsequent discharge.
As a third and auxiliary process, a QUILTON compact plant has a fat, grease and oil catchment area with fine-bubble aeration that makes fats and other floating particles easier to remove.
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