Device and method for cleaning water accruing from drilling in the ground

Abstract

Device (200) for cleaning grey water containing particulate material, comprising a container (201) in turn comprising a water entry (202); a slurry exit (204); a cleansed water exit (203); and a sedimentation volume (220). The invention is characterised in that the container further comprises a flocculant provision means, arranged to add a flocculant (212) to grey water entering via the water entry, so that grey water having entered said sedimentation volume after such adding contains said flocculant, in that the flocculant provision means comprises a vertical chute (213) arranged to convey, via gravity, said grey water from an upper part of said container to be released via an open lower end (215) of the chute into said sedimentation volume at a height of at the most 1 m above a bottom (221) of said sedimentation volume, the chute having a cross-sectional area of at least 0.1 m2. The invention also relates to a method.

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