FILTRATION

FEATURES
  • Up to 8 vertically oriented, diamond shaped cloth media laterals per unit
  • Gravity flow operation
  • Available in concrete tanks
  • Retrofit existing concrete traveling bridge filters with minimal civil work
  • 2-1/2 times the filtration area of traveling bridge sand filters in the same footprint
  • Variable speed drive platform and backwash pump for immediate response to solid excursions
  • Four-wheel drive platform designed for better guidance and traction
  • Fully automatic, PLC based control system

ADVANTAGES
  • Unique pile cloth media
  • Reuse quality effluent
  • Higher solids loading per square foot of media
  • Reduced backwash water volume
  • Higher hydraulic loadings
  • Reduced footprint

APPLICATIONS
  • New plants
  • Retrofit of existing traveling bridges and filter basins
  • Tertiary filtration
  • Phosphorus removal
  • Municipal and Industrial Reuse

 

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Overview of AquaDiamond filter retrofitted into a 16' wide sand filter cell.

Success Story

One of the AquaDiamond® filters retrofitted into an existing traveling bridge filter tank at Little Falls Run.

Success Story

CUTAWAY VIEW 

OPERATION 

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FILTERING - The cloth media is completely submerged during filtration. Solids are deposited on the outside of the cloth as the influent wastewater flows through. The filtered effluent is collected inside the diamond lateral and flows by gravity, to discharge. The filtration process requires no moving parts. Increased headloss due to the deposited solids automatically initiates periodic backwashing.

BACKWASH - During backwash, a pump provides suction to the vacuum heads, allowing solids to be vacuumed from the cloth as the platform traverses the length of the diamond laterals. The platform operates only during backwashing and solids collection.

SOLIDS WASTE - Because of the vertical orientation of the media, some solids will settle to the basin floor during normal operation. Small suction headers provide a means for collecting and discharging the settled solids. The solids collection process utilizes the backwash pump for suction.

 

WEFTEC 2008 Innovative Technology Award Winner 

Press Release September 2, 2008

Alexandria, Va. – Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc. of Rockford, Ill. will receive the prestigious Innovative Technology Award from the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international not-for-profit technical and educational water quality organization. The award will be presented during ceremonies at WEFTEC®.08 – WEF’s 81st annual technical exhibition and conference – next month in Chicago, Ill.

                                                                      

The Innovative Technology Awards, which includes the collection systems, instrumentation, process equipment, and solids handling and disposal categories, are presented annually to WEF associate members who have introduced new innovative products or services related to the construction, operation, or maintenance of treatment facilities. Aqua-Aerobic Systems is being recognized in the process equipment category for its AquaDiamond® filter. Easily adaptable, this cloth media filter provides wastewater treatment facilities that have treatment capacity issues with a viable option for retrofitting/upgrading old traveling bridge sand filters or for new filter installations.

Aqua-Aerobic Systems will be honored during WEFTEC.08, the largest water quality event in North America and largest annual water quality exhibition in the world, on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. More than 18,000 of the world’s leading water quality experts and 1,000 companies featuring the latest in water quality technology are expected at McCormick Place in Chicago from October 18-22, 2008. For more information, visit www.weftec.org.

 

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