Separations Overview (2011)

Separations
Overview
TDRL Seminar
Presented by: Infilco Degremont
North American Footprint
5 companies ● 471 employees
ANDERSON DEGREMONT LTD

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HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM
Over 114 Years of Providing
Solutions
Wide Range of Treatment Solutions
- Headworks - Biosolids - Separations
- Disinfection - Biological - Reuse
Clarification Technologies: Filtration Technologies:
SuperPulsator – sludge blanket Greenleaf – cluster filters

DensaDeg – high-rate solids contact ABW – automatic backwash
AquaDAF – dissolved air flotation

IDI Clarifier History
Surface Loading No. of

Process Type Year Developed
Rate Installations
Accelator® Solids Contact 0.75 - 2.5 gpm/ft2 ~1780 1940’s
Pulsator® Sludge Blanket 1.0 - 1.25 gpm/ft2 ~84 1955
PulsaPak® Sludge Blanket 1.5 gpm/ft2 ~27 1970’s
SuperPulsator® Sludge Blanket 2.0 - 4.0 gpm/ft2 ~195 1982
High-Rate Solids 8.0 – 12.0

DensaDeg® ~225 1985
Contact gpm/ft2
8.0 – 16.0
AquaDAF® High-Rate DAF 20 2000
gpm/ft2

AquaDAF®
AquaDAF® Advantages
• Proven technology for 30+ years

• Optimization of conventional equipment to increase efficiency
• High rates: 30 to 40 m/h
• Perfect process to efficiently remove low density particles
• Perfect process for membrane pretreatment - NO POLYMER

AQUADAF APPLICATIONS
• Clarification (low turbidity/TSS)

• High TOC, color waters
• Low density solids
• Algae removal
• Cold waters; Thermal variation
• Membrane filtration pretreatment
• Desalination pretreatment
• Tertiary Phosphorous Removal (w/ filters)

DAF Process Overview
High-Rate Dissolved Air Flotation – Internal System
Auto Effluent
Weir
Primary Flocculation
3-5 min. @ 80-100 G Air-Water
Dispersion Zone Effluent
Channel
Raw Water Inlet & Distribution
- Following in-line mixing Accumulated
Sludge Layer
Flotation
Zone
Secondary Flocculation
3-5 min. @ 30-60 G
High-Rate Dissolved Air Flotation – Operating
Principles
Recycle Stream:
• Recycle flow: 8-10% of throughput
• Operating Pressure: 5-6 bar
• Unpacked Saturator Vessel
• Injection: Proprietary nozzles
Micro-Bubble Production:
• Air Blanket: Milky appearance

• Solids adhere to bubbles and float to surface
• Continuous production of air blanket

Sludge Removal Options
Hydraulic:
• Flood DAF basin with automatic effluent weir
• Sludge wash line around periphery of DAF basin
• Simple, less mechanical approach
• Water loss: 0.75 to 1.5%
• Solids concentration: < 0.3 to 0.5%
Mechanical Scraper:
• Mechanical scraper mechanism

• Mechanical, thickening approach
• Water loss: < 0.5%
• Solids concentration: 2-4%

Recent AquaDAF Successes
• SSJID, CA – Pretreatment to membranes (6300 m3/h)

• Haworth, NJ – Algae Removal of Lake water: (33,000 m3/h)
• Hudson, MA - Tertiary phosphorous removal. Less than 0.1 mg/L DAF
goal

Haworth, NJ (32,700 m3/h)

DensaDeg Clarifier
History & Applications
• Product developed in the early 1980’s by Degremont
• ~250 installations Clarification

Softening
• First installation: 1984 Organics Removal
Filter/Membrane Backwash Recovery
• Diversified Applications
WATER - 19%
Primary Clarification
Tertiary Phosphorus Removal
High Rate CSO/SSO INDUSTRIAL - 46%
WASTEWATER - 35% Clarification

Softening/Silica Removal
Metal Precipitation
Fluoride Removal
FGD Wastewater

DENSADEG ADVANTAGES
•Flocculation + Clarification + Thickening in

one unit
•2 – 4% Solids Production
•No problems with large variations in influent
conditions
•High Rates: 20 – 24 m/h (clarification)
24 – 36 m/h (softening)
70 – 100 m/h (CSO)
•Unit capacity: 160 – 4000 m3/h
Dynamic Separation & Clarification
Rapid Clarifier / Thickener

Turbine Mix Reactor
Draft Tube Launder Recirculation Cone
Reactor Turbine Drive Assembly Lifting Assembly
Settling
Coagulant Tube
Assembly
Settling
Tube Support
Polymer
Flow
Splitter Sludge Sludge
Recycle Pump Recirculation
Sludge
Blowdown

Unit Design Considerations
REACTOR RETENTION: LOADING RATE:

~8-10 min 20-24 m/h (clarification)
24-36 m/h (softening)
72-108 m/h (CSO)
CAPACITY per UNIT:

160 to 4000 m3/h (concrete)
25 to 4000 m3/h (steel)
RAPID MIX RETENTION:

2 to 3 min (clarification)
SLUDGE RECYCLE: CLARIFIER RETENTION: SLUDGE BLOWDOWN:

2% to 4% (clarification)
3% to 6% ~ 25-30 min
5% to 20% (softening)

Densadeg Performance
• Toledo, OH – Largest HRC for CSO (36,500 m3/h), design velocity >100 m/h
• Wadi Ma’in, Jordan – Backwash waste recovery system followed by UV, 700 m3/h

SuperPulsator 
Sludge Blanket
Clarifier
SuperPulsator Process
Sludge Blanket Clarifier – Complete System
Vent Vacuum Pump

Valve
Vacuum
Chamber
Collection
Channel
Collection
Laterals
Blowdown
Pipes
Settling
Plates
Concentrator
Distribution
Channel Distribution
Laterals

SuperPulsator Applications
Pulsed Sludge Blanket Technology
• Clarification only - New or Retrofit
• Typical Loading rates of 5-10 m/h
• Low to high Turbidity (5-1000+ NTU)
• Low to very high Color (1-100+ PCU)
• Organic carbon removed with PAC
• Membrane Pretreatment w/ no polymer - low rates

SuperPulsator Operating Principles
Pulsed Sludge Blanket Technology
• Pulsed flow through the basin - created by vacuum pump

• Constant upflow velocity over entire surface area
• Combined flocculation/clarification in one basin
• Internal sludge concentration and automatic sludge removal
• No submerged moving parts and corrosion resistant internals

Sludge Blanket Clarifier – The Pulse
Vent Valve Vent Valve Vacuum Pump

Vacuum Pump Closed
Open
Vacuum
Vacuum
Chamber
Chamber
Sludge Blanket
Sludge Blanket Contraction
Expansion
Periodic sludge discharge

0.2 to 0.5% solids
Venting: 8 to 12 seconds Pulling a Vacuum: 40 to 50 seconds

Sludge Blanket
7 feet of a clarification zone
10 feet of a filtering sludge blanket

SuperPulsator Process Overview
Myrtle Beach, SC

Singapore, Chestnut WTP
Plant Flow: 17,000 m3/h
Influent Turbidity: 5-10 NTU
Effluent Turbidity < 0.7 NTU
Coagulant: 30 ppm Alum
Polymer: 0.4 ppm

Process Highlights
Advantages
SuperPulsator ADVANTAGES
− Proven Technology – hundreds of operating installations
− No submerged moving parts
− Sludge Blanket = 10’ of Buffering Capacity
− “High Rate” Process with Detention Time
− Extremely Low Energy Required
− Membrane pretreatment without polymer (reduced loading rates)
− Low capital cost - $

Pulsapak®
Package Treatment Plant

Pulsapak® Design
Considerations
Clarification or Clarification & Filtration
Little to no civil construction
8 Sizes between 30 – 160 m3/h
Typical Loading rates of 1.5 gpm/ft2 (3.6 m/h)
Low to high Turbidity (5-1000+ NTU)
Low to very high Color (1-100+ PCU)

Pulsapak®
Package Treatment Plant
Vacuum Chamber Vacuum Vent
Vacuum Pump Coagulated Water

Inlet
Clarified Water
Collection Laterals Settling
Tubes
Air Line
Clarified Water Sludge

Filter Inlet Blanket
Raw Water
Inlet
Washwater
Outlet Trough
Waste
Piping Sludge
Blowdown
Distribution Laterals
Filter-to Waste
Line
Stilling Plates
Backwash Line Filter Drain
Underdrain
Sand
Effluent Header Anthracite

Pulsapak® P-100 (160 m3/h)
(Lake Murray, SC)

Pulsapak® P-18 (50 m3/h)
(Canada)

®
The ABW Filter
®
The ABW Filter
• An American Invention, Introduced Circa 1928, by The Hardinge

Co. of York, PA
• Acquired and marketed by Environmental Elements Corp, of

Baltimore, MD until 1987
• Acquired and now marketed by Infilco Degremont, Inc. of

Richmond, VA
• In excess of 2,000 units are currently in operation in the

United States and Canada.
• Units are also in operation in: UK / Switzerland / Japan / Korea

ABW Filter Advantages
• Low head loss across filter 300mm

• No pipe gallery
• No need for filter redundancy
• No large backwash pumps
• No backwash tank needed
• Minimal energy consumption

Typical Applications
• Tertiary Treatment
• Reuse
• Potable Water
• Industrial Process and
Waste

Filter Design
Application Design Rate Typical Media

Configuration
5 m/h nominal
Wastewater 10 m/h peak flow 275mm coarse media
Wastewater 5 m/h nominal 275mm coarse media or

Reuse 400mm dual media (if
10 m/h peak flow stringent guarantees are
required)
Potable Water 6-7 m/h 275mm fine media or

deeper media.

Typical Concrete ABW

Typical Package ABW

Typical Filter Layout
Unfiltered
Water
Slide Gate (Optional)
Influent Channel
Effluent
Weir
Influent
Channel
Influent
Effluent
Weir Channel
Effluent Channel
Filtered
Water
®
The ABW Filter
Influent
Washwater Channel Control
Trough Panel
Effluent
Influent Channel
Ports
Backwash
Washwater Assembly
Hood
Compartmentalized
Filter Bed

Backwash Mode
Backwash Direction
Entrapped
Solids
A B C D E
Backwashing
Underdrain

ABW Filter Performance
Results

Back River WWTP
Baltimore MD
Peak Flow: 80,000 m3/h

Greenleaf Filter
Gravity Cluster
Filter
Greenleaf Filter Overview
Gravity Cluster Filter
The Greenleaf Filter Control represents a unique concept for the

control of multiple granular media filters. It eliminates bulky piping
and valves through the ingenious application of siphons.
• Low Maintenance
• Requires Small Footprint
• Low Energy Requirement
• Common Wall Construction
• Excellent Filtered Effluent
• Simple and Effective

Gravity Cluster Filter
• Traditional filter requires significant amounts of: land, large piping and
large, line sized valves.
• A Greenleaf type filter
has a footprint that is
33% smaller than a
conventional filter and
gallery.

Gravity Cluster Filter – Design Considerations
• Cluster-type filter 4 cells grouped around central core
• Customary design - Filter/backwash rate, media depth, etc. are practiced

• Essentially 4 conventional filters

Normal Filter Operation
Vacuum Tank 3 - Way Valve (Actuates Inlet Siphon Valve)
Low Inlet Weir Chamber

Pretreated Water Flume Inlet Siphon Valve
High Top of Basin
Filter Cell
Effluent
Control
Forebay Weir
Wash Trough
Filtered Water to
Storage or Service
Underdrain Drain
Isolation Valve
Common Filtered Cell
Water Chamber Isolation Filter to Waste Line
Line

Maximum Headloss in One Filter Cell

High Top of Basin
Backwash Siphon
Filter Cell
Effluent
Control
Forebay Weir
Wash Trough
Filtered Water to
Storage or Service
Underdrain Drain
Backwash
Cell Waste Section Isolation Valve
Common Filtered Isolation Line
Water Chamber Filter to Waste Line

Filter Cell Drain

High Top of Basin
Filter Cell
Effluent
Control
Forebay Weir
Wash Trough
Filtered Water to
Storage or Service
Underdrain Drain
Cell
Common Filtered Isolation Valve
Isolation
Line

Backwash Initiation
Vacuum Tank BW Solenoid Valve (actuated)

High Top of Basin
Filter Cell Backwash Siphon Effluent

Control
Weir
Forebay Wash Trough
Filtered Water to
Storage or Service
Underdrain Drain
Cell Isolation Valve

Common Filtered
Isolation
Line

Backwash
Vacuum Tank BW Solenoid Valve

High Top of Basin
Filter Cell Backwash Siphon

Effluent
Control
Wash Trough Weir
Forebay
Filtered Water to
Storage or Service
Underdrain Drain

Common Filtered
Isolation
Line

Filter-to-Waste
Vacuum Tank

Pretreated Water Flume Inlet Siphon - ACTUATED
High Top of Basin
Filter Cell Effluent

Control
Weir
Forebay
Wash Trough
Filtered Water to
Storage or Service
Underdrain Drain

Common Filtered
Isolation Filter to Waste Valve CLOSED
Water Chamber
Line OPEN

Return to Service
Vacuum Tank

High Top of Basin
Filter Cell
Effluent
Control
Forebay Weir
Wash Trough
Filtered Water to
Storage or Service
Underdrain Drain

Common Filtered
Isolation
Line

Greenleaf Filter Advantages
• Greenleaf siphons for flow split and backwash removal ELIMINATE large
inlet & backwash valves (8 per filter)
• All siphon solenoids accessible from operating platform
• Small foot print due to compact arrangement - 33% less space than
conventional filter - no large pipe gallery
• Prefabricated components => Simple Installation
• Impossible to shock or surge filter
• Small clearwell - Self Backwashing
• Unlimited media/underdrain configurations

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5 companies ● 471 employees

ANDERSON DEGREMONT LTD

Clarification Technologies: Filtration Technologies:

SuperPulsator – sludge blanket Greenleaf – cluster filters

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

Surface Loading No. of

Accelator® Solids Contact 0.75 - 2.5 gpm/ft2 ~1780 1940’s

Pulsator® Sludge Blanket 1.0 - 1.25 gpm/ft2 ~84 1955

PulsaPak® Sludge Blanket 1.5 gpm/ft2 ~27 1970’s

SuperPulsator® Sludge Blanket 2.0 - 4.0 gpm/ft2 ~195 1982

High-Rate Solids 8.0 – 12.0

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

• Proven technology for 30+ years

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

• Clarification (low turbidity/TSS)

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

• Air Blanket: Milky appearance

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

• Mechanical scraper mechanism

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

• SSJID, CA – Pretreatment to membranes (6300 m3/h)

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

• Product developed in the early 1980’s by Degremont

• ~250 installations Clarification

WASTEWATER - 35% Clarification

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

•Flocculation + Clarification + Thickening in

Rapid Clarifier / Thickener

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

REACTOR RETENTION: LOADING RATE:

CAPACITY per UNIT:

RAPID MIX RETENTION:

SLUDGE RECYCLE: CLARIFIER RETENTION: SLUDGE BLOWDOWN:

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

Vent Vacuum Pump

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

• Clarification only - New or Retrofit

• Typical Loading rates of 5-10 m/h

• Low to high Turbidity (5-1000+ NTU)

• Low to very high Color (1-100+ PCU)

• Organic carbon removed with PAC

• Membrane Pretreatment w/ no polymer - low rates

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

• Pulsed flow through the basin - created by vacuum pump

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

Vent Valve Vent Valve Vacuum Pump

Periodic sludge discharge

Venting: 8 to 12 seconds Pulling a Vacuum: 40 to 50 seconds

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

7 feet of a clarification zone

10 feet of a filtering sludge blanket

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

HEADWORKS | BIOLOGICAL | SEPARATIONS | MEMBRANES | OXIDATION-DISINFECTION | BIOSOLIDS | INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS WWW.DEGREMONT-TECHNOLOGIES.COM

− Proven Technology – hundreds of operating installations

− No submerged moving parts

− Sludge Blanket = 10’ of Buffering Capacity

− “High Rate” Process with Detention Time

− Extremely Low Energy Required

− Membrane pretreatment without polymer (reduced loading rates)

− Low capital cost - $