Urbana,OH
This municipality has a 2.0 meter Ashbrook-Simon-Hartley BFP which operates part of the year
as a gravity belt thinkener, and the remainder of the year as a belt filter press. At the time of
installation, 8 trials were run on the existing installation, followed by 8 trials after installing the
RapidFloc (all in thickener mode). Results of the study follow:
| Before | After |
| Thickened Concentration | 5.2% | 5.6% |
| Hydraulic loading | 164gpm | 185gpm |
| Production rate | 3492 #/hr | 4303#/hr |
| Capture(%TS in Filtrate) | not measured | 0.571% |
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