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US 11,993,525 B2Granted
Anaerobic waste water purification tower
AssigneeWaterleau Group NV
InventorRonny Gerards
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Abstract
The invention relates to an anaerobic waste water purification tower (21) comprising a sludge reactor (22) with a waste water inlet zone (23), an active zone (24), a first set (25) of three phase separating means for separating sludge, gas and water, comprising at least one layer of adjacent gas hoods (26) connected to a gas collector tank (27) positioned above the reactor (22), and a clean water effluent outlet (31), wherein the gas hoods (26) are hooded lamellas for improving the separation of gas, sludge and water.
Claims10
Anaerobic waste water purification tower comprising a sludge reactor with, from bottom to top:
- a waste water inlet zone,
- an active zone,
- a first set of three phase separating means for separating sludge, gas and water, comprising at least two layers of adjacent gas hoods connected to a gas collector tank positioned above the reactor, and
- a clean water effluent outlet,
- characterized in that the gas hoods are hooded lamellas for improving the separation of gas, sludge and water characterized in that the layers of hooded lamellas are oriented in opposite directions.
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