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Activated sludge | Mixture of primary treated or screened sewage (or industrial wastewater) combined with organisms to develop a biological floc, and in witch atmospheric air is introduced so that the sludge is activated. This activation reduces the organic content of the sewage. |
AiRBC | KAMPS technology of Rotating Biological Contactor |
AIRMAX | Trademark of the high efficiency low speed surface aerator designed by KAMPS. |
Alpha Factor | |
AOTR | Actual Oxygen Transfer Rate : Mass of oxygen per unit time dissolved in a volume of water by an oxygen transfer system operating under given conditions of temperature, pressure, power, gas rate, and dissolved oxygen concentration. |
Carrousel | Trade name DHV : oxidation ditch with vertical shaft low turbine. |
Continuous sand filter | Sand water filtration system, where the sand continuously cleans itself, providing a higher filtration quality. |
Kla 20 | Oxygen transfer coefficient at T=20°C in clean water, expressed in 1/h |
Kla T | Oxygen transfer coefficient at actual temperature in waste water, expressed in 1/h |
Lagoon | Group of natural wetlands acting as biofilters, removing sediments and pollutants from the water. In the lagoon, wastewater is treated through a combination of physical, biological and chemical processes. Much of them occur naturally, but some systems use aeration device to add oxygen to the wastewater. |
Low speed vertical shaft aerator | Slow turbine designed to aerate and mix the activated sludge in a water treatment plant. |
Oxidation ditch |
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RBC | Rotating Biological Contactor |
RBC | Rotating Biological Contactor |
Rotating Biological Contactor | a fixed bed of biology on biodisques that turn in and out of waste water. OUT : biology breath, IN : biology feeds herself with pollution |
SAE | |
Sludge dewatering | Removal of water contained in the excess sludge, in order to reduce its volume after water treatment. |
SOTR | Standard oxygenation transfer rate OTR in clean water when the DO concentration is zero at all points in the water volume, the water temperature is 20°C, and the barometric pressure is 1.00 atm (101 kPa). |
Surface aerator | Slow turbine designed to aerate and mix the activated sludge in a water treatment plant on the surface of the basin. |
Ultrafiltration membrane | Semipermeable “out-in” membrane against witch a liquid (wastewater) is forced by hydrostatic pressure. The suspended solids and solutes are retained, while water pass through the membrane. |
Water aeration | Action of oxygenate the waste waters where the micro-organisms, keeping this oxygen, will remove the contaminants. |