Final Clarifiers in Activated Sludge Process

Educational version by Petr Grau, Aquanova International Ltd, Prague

Final clarifiers are used in activated sludge process (ASP) to separate, thicken and enable recycling of thickened activated sludge. An appropriate introduction to the activated sludge process can be found in Eckenfelder and Grau (1992,1998), Orhon and Artan (1994), Henze et al. (1995). Comprehensive information on clarifiers can be found in Albertson (1992), Daigger (1995), Ekama et al. (1997), WEF Manual of Practice (2006).

Contents:		Additional:
Definitions and Mass Balance	Scum Baffles	About AquaNova International
Sludge Volume Index	Sludge Blanket	About the author (comments please here!)
Inlets	Practical Design Criteria	Flood 2002 (~500 years periodicity)
Short-circuiting	Literature	Open letter to Mr. Hikmet Toprak
Sludge Removal	Photographs of Clarifiers	Toprak's response
Solids Flux Theory	Links	Math jokes

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