Scraper Box is a simple, efficient and low cost innovative technology for thickening liquid sludge. It can be automated and does not require conditioning polymer.
Reducing the volume of sludge from waste water treatment plants is a key parameter for handling and conveying... improving techniques and optimizing costs are crucial (storing sludge thickened by gravity makes up 40% of the total cost of the spreading sector).
Scraper Box is a simple, efficient and low cost innovative technology for thickening liquid sludge. It can be automated and does not require conditioning polymer.
It produces sludge that is 60% more concentrated than with usual thickeners: sludge dryness is increased significantly, achieving 50g/L compared to the current 30g/L, without the use of costly coagulants.
For example: a city with a daily production of 20m3 of sludge at 30g/L would only produce 12m3 at 50g/L with Scraper Box.
Our innovative thickener is particularly adapted to the needs of rural and peri-urban cities with small waste water treatment plants (<2000 inhabitant). It is mobile, robust and simple to maintain while its tactile interface makes it easy to use.
The device includes a tank (inlet: raw sludge; outlet: thickened sludge) with an internal filter to separate two sections. Raw sludge is added into the lower section. It is then thickened over 2 stages: Settling followed by Filtration/Compression. The settling phase occurs until the sludge cake reaches the filter located in the upper part of the tank.
The thickened sludge is removed separately from the liquid contained in the upper section. A second tank allows a continuous thickening while the first one is emptying.
Current development status
Commercially available technologies
Applications
- Processing waste water: thickening sludge from waste water treatment plants - Particularly adapted to small plants treating urban or rural industrial waste water (<2000 IE)
Desired business relationship
Patent licensing
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