An apparatus for floating sludge in wastewater combined with a precipitation tank including sloped plates, which is constructed to selectively precipitate or float sludge included in wastewater introduced thereinto to thus recover the sludge, the apparatus comprising:
- a precipitation and separation tank including an introduction port and a discharge port such that wastewater introduced into the apparatus through the introduction port and wastewater from which the precipitated or floating sludge is recovered is discharged through the discharge port;
- a jetting and floating unit, which is disposed adjacent to the introduction port so as to selectively jet fine bubbles into the precipitation and separation tank and to selectively float the sludge included in wastewater introduced into the precipitation and separation tank;
- a removal unit, which is disposed above the precipitation and separation tank so as to recover the sludge floated in the wastewater;
- a discharge unit embodied as a discharge screw, which is disposed at a lower portion of the precipitation and separation tank and which is composed of a shaft, which is rotated by a motor and a reduction gear, and a screw blade spirally wound around the shaft in a longitudinal direction so as to discharge the precipitated sludge;
- a sloped plate unit, which is disposed in the precipitation and separation tank so as to stabilize introduction of the wastewater through the introduction port and flow of the wastewater by the fine bubbles supplied from the jetting and floating unit to thus selectively precipitate the sludge downwards;
- an elevation wall, which is disposed so as to isolate the discharge port from the removal unit and which is disposed in a housing so as to control a discharge level of the wastewater, from which the sludge is recovered, by controlling the height thereof, the housing being configured such that the wastewater, from which lower precipitated sludge or upper floating sludge in the precipitation and separation tank is recovered, is introduced through a portion of a lower portion thereof and is then discharged through the discharge port formed in another portion thereof;
- the screw blade of the discharge screw serving as the discharge unit having transfer pressure cuts formed therein in a direction in which the screw blade is spirally wound around the shaft, in order to reduce a transfer load required to transfer sludge precipitated in the lower portion of the precipitation and separation tank toward one side of the precipitation and separation tank in a longitudinal direction;
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- a washing unit configured to pneumatically perform washing of an inside of the introduction port and upper and lower sides of the sloped plate unit,
- wherein the washing unit includes an upper support pipe having a hollow pipe structure, which is disposed above the sloped plate unit in the precipitation and separation tank and has spray holes formed through a lower portion thereof at regular intervals, a lower support pipe having a hollow pipe structure, which is disposed under the sloped plate unit and which has spray holes formed through an upper portion thereof at regular intervals, an air compressor disposed outside of the introduction port of the precipitation and separation tank so as to generate compressed air, and a booster compressor, which is connected to the air compressor so as to boost a pressure of the compressed air to thus create compressed air having a boosted pressure and which selectively supplies the compressed air having the boosted pressure to at least one of the inside of the introduction port, the spray holes in the upper support pipe, and the spray holes in the lower support pipe.