US 7,553,410 B1Granted

Septage treatment system

AssigneeEastwood Research, Inc.

InventorDerrick O. Chennault

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Abstract

The present invention generally includes a septage treatment system comprising: (a) a primary treatment process system comprising: (1) a receiving station to pump the septage from a vehicle; (2) equalization tank(s) to receive septage from the receiving station; and (3) two or more mixing and odor control tanks to generate waste activated sludge; (b) a primary settling tank to generate waste activated sludge; (c) a secondary treatment process system comprising: (1) aeration tank(s) to receive waste activated sludge from the primary treatment process system and to generate water effluent; and (d) a tertiary treatment process system comprising: (1) wetland ditch(es) to receive water effluent from the aeration tank and to generate filtered water effluent; (2) wetland pond(s) to receive filtered water effluent from the wetland ditch(es) and to generate filtered water effluent; and (3) an aquaculture hydroponics and sand bed greenhouse to generate filtered water effluent.

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Dependent claims

A septage treatment system comprising:

(a) An augmented primary treatment process system comprising:
1. a receiving station adapted to receive septage from a vehicle and to pump said septage;
2. at least one equalization tank adapted to receive septage from said receiving station;
3. at least two mixing and odor control tanks adapted to receive septage from said at least one equalization tank, and to generate waste activated sludge;
and
a primary settling tank adapted to receive effluent from said mixing and odor control tanks, and to generate waste activated sludge;
(a) a secondary treatment process system adapted to receive comprising:
1. at least one aeration tank adapted to receive waste activated sludge from said primary treatment process system and to generate water effluent;
and
(b) a tertiary treatment process system comprising at least one water treatment device adapted to receive water effluent from said aeration tank and selected from the group consisting of:
(a) wetland ditches;
(b) wetland ponds and (c) aquaculture hydroponics and sand bed greenhouses.

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