Slurry handling apparatus
AssigneeCDEnviro Limited
InventorsAlex Humphrey, Darren Eastwood
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Abstract
A slurry handling apparatus includes at least one reception hopper includes a base, a rear wall and opposing side walls, and an opening provided in the base. Slurry delivered into the reception hopper from a tanker can pass through the opening in the base, and a respective first dewatering screen having an apertured screening deck is located beneath the at least one reception hopper so that slurry passing through the opening is delivered onto the deck of the respective screen, with undersize material and water passing through the apertures of the deck to be received within a sump, and with oversize material passing over the deck to be discharged from a downstream end of the deck.
Claims27
A slurry handling apparatus comprising at least one reception hopper comprising a base, a rear wall and opposing side walls, an opening being provided in said base, wherein slurry delivered into said reception hopper from a tanker can pass through said opening in said base, a respective first dewatering screen having an apertured screening deck being located beneath said at least one reception hopper whereby slurry passing through said opening is delivered onto said deck of said respective first screen, undersize material and water passing through said apertures of said deck to be received within a sump, oversize material passing over said deck to be discharged from a downstream end of said deck.
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