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:

BeforeAfter
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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