Water Treatment Encyclopedia

Corrugated Plate Separators Package

API and CPI (Corrugated Plate Interceptor) separators are predominantly used in the separation of free oil from produced or effluent water or suspended solids for oily water treatment in an (Oily Water System) (OWS). The basic principle ...

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Deaeration Systems

Deaeration Systems: deaerator is the removal of air molecules, usually steam, from another gas. It can refer to: Deaerator: A deaerator is a device that is widely used for the removal of air and other dissolved gases from the feedwater to ...

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Deionization System

Deionization, as the name explains is a term normally used for reduction of charged ions to very low levels. Deionization is also alternatively called as Demineralization. The deionization is normally a two stage process. In first stage the...

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Denitrification System

Denitrification is removal of Nitrates from water or waste water. There are two basic approaches for Denitrification. Denitrification of waste water stream Denitrification of Potable water Nitrate is a stable and highly soluble ion with a l...

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Dewatering Packages

The dewatering packages are as the name clearly implies, equipment to remove water from sludge. Sludge dewatering is typically the final step for industrial wastewater treatment processes and plants. After wastewater treatment, the sludge r...

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Diffusion Sparging Systems

A typical Fine Diffuser System Layout Aeration systems for conventional wastewater activated sludge plants typically account for 45 to 60% of a treatment facility’s total energy use. The ability to define what improvements will be most co...

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Disinfection Systems

Water disinfection means the removal, deactivation or killing of pathogenic microorganisms. Microorganisms are destroyed or deactivated, resulting in termination of growth and reproduction. When microorganisms are not removed from drinking...

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Dissolved Air Floatation & Gas Flotation Separators

Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) System Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) is a Physio-Chemical Treatment where air is intimately contacted with an aqueous stream at high pressure, dissolving the air. The pressure on the liquid is reduced through a...

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Drying Systems

In industry, there are so many diversified and extensive drying systems. For each and every product, there is a representative curve that describes the drying characteristics for that product at a specific temperature, velocity and pressure...

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Electrochlorination

Chlorination is disinfection of water with the application of chlorine. Other methods for disinfecting water are UV systems, ozone generator, silver ionization, etc. However, these methods are not as popular as chlorination because those ar...

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