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Evaluation Of Filtration Performance Of A Rotating Belt Filter For Different Primary Wastewater Influents., Tulip Chakraborty
Evaluation Of Filtration Performance Of A Rotating Belt Filter For Different Primary Wastewater Influents., Tulip Chakraborty
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Human activities around the world are responsible for production of enormous amount of wastewater, which needs to be treated quickly and effectively to avoid environmental concerns and other health implications. As an alternative to primary settlers in treating municipal wastewater, Salsnes, a subsidiary company of Trojan Technologies offers rotating belt filters (RBF) to treat the wastewater. A bench scale filtration unit of the RBF was developed to investigate the effect of varying water qualities from several wastewater plants in London, Ontario on the performance of the filter. The unit can achieve up to 80% reduction in total suspended solids (TSS), …