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Designing a Floating Decanter (2 credit hours)
This course covers the basic design considerations for designing a floating decanter of the type used to draw off clear water from a tank of mixed liquids.   The decanter is used in sequential batch reactor waste water treatment plants and other applications.  Included in this course are descriptions of the most common floating decanter configurations and their main components.  The main configurations include decanters with fixed and variable intakes.  This course explores some of the design issues in arriving at a floating decanter with the correct buoyancy.  Float design, piping, scum exclusion and operating mechanisms are discussed.  
James Thompson
At the end of this course the student will have an understanding of:

The several common configurations of floating decanters
How the decanter differs from a skimmer or a decanting centrifuge
The operating principle of the floating decanter
Characteristics of hose versus rigid pipe effluent conduits
Effects of buoyancy changes during operation
Methods of flow control for floating decanters
Installation requirements for floating decanters
Calculating the buoyancy of the decanter system
Characteristics of various types of flexible pipe connections
Preventing contamination of the effluent
Mechanical and non-mechanical decanter operating systems

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