Water treatment plant

Patent · Tue Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6716350

Mixon, J A

A water treatment plant comprises a generally horizontal cylindrical tank and an upstanding cylindrical tank usually having a diameter less than the horizontal tank and being integrally attached to and intersecting an end wall portion thereof. The horizontal tank includes a transverse partition and a longitudinal partition which extends from an intermediate portion of the transverse partition to the upstanding tank and divides the first tank into an aeration chamber, a sludge holding chamber and a purifying or chlorine contact chamber. The second tank comprises a clarifying chamber including an upper portion having influent and effluent pipe means and skimming means and a bottom portion having a circular bottom surface, an outlet and scraper means for moving sediment into the outlet for recirculation either to the aeration chamber or to the sludge holding chamber.

• Assignee: American Environ-Port Inc
• Patent Number(s): US 4351722
• OSTI ID: 6716350
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 1 Mar 1978; Other Information: PAT-APPL-882437
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
WATER TREATMENT PLANTS
DESIGN
AERATION
CHLORINATION
CLEANING
SEDIMENTS
SEWAGE SLUDGE
TANKS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CONTAINERS
HALOGENATION
SEWAGE
SLUDGES
WASTES
320604* - Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization- Municipalities & Community Systems- Municipal Waste Management- (1980-)