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Wastewater Engineering CE 455 Grit Removal
Wastewater Engineering CE 455 Grit Removal
CE 455
Grit Removal
What is Grit?
• Inert material, both organic and inorganic, that is not benefitted by secondary
treatment or sludge processing.
(iii) Reduce the frequency of digester cleaning caused by excessive accumulation of grit and
(iv) To separate inorganic particles from organic and disposed off of these particles just to wash
without passing any further treatment process.
• Grit Chambers are usually located after bar racks and before sedimentation tanks. Similarly, the
installation of screening facilities ahead of the grit chambers make the operation and
maintenance of grit removal easier.
• Two important types of Grit Chambers (i) Horizontal rectangular flow and (ii) Aerated Grit
Chamber.
Types of grit chambers
• Rectangular Horizontal-flow grit chamber: The unit is designed to maintain a velocity of 0.3 m/s and to
provide sufficient time for grit particles to settle at channel while organic particles are kept in suspension. A
25% increase in velocity may result in washout of grit, while 25% reduction result retention of non-target
organics. The design of horizontal flow grit chamber be such that, the lightest particles of grit will reach the
bed of the channel. Usually grit chambers must be designed to remove particles of diameter of 0.20 mm.
The length of channel will be based on the settling velocity and control section, while cross section area will
be based on the rate of flow and the number of channels. Allowance should be made for inlet and outlet
turbulence.
Design an aerated grit chamber for the treatment of municipal wastewater. The average
flow rate is 0.5 m3 /s and the peaking factor is 2.75.