Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support

John Meunier Inc.

Martin Couture

Gilles Filion

Michel Bruneau

Karim Essemiani

Apparatus and method are provided for separating grit from liquid sewage while retaining organic solids in suspension. A sustained rotational liquid sewage first fluid flow, an induced upward liquid sewage second fluid flow, and a sustained rotational liquid sewage third fluid flow are employed in an apparatus having a cylindrical grit settling main chamber, a grit storage secondary chamber including a central grit settling access top mouth opening, a vertical shaft, a means for causing rotation of the vertical shaft, and a partition extending transversely through the main chamber and forming upper and lower subchambers. A fluid flow speed gradient is established between the liquid sewage third fluid flow and the liquid sewage first fluid flow. In this manner, grit is separated from liquid sewage.

Method and apparatus for sewage grit removal

A rake, in which its tines are inserted and moved between the parallel, uniformly spaced, bars of a grating for debris removal. The rake includes a base and plurality of equally spaced parallel tines forming blades integrally moulded with the base out of a thermoplastic with memory characteristics. The thickness of each blade is about 1/16 its width, each blade is easily flexible thicknesswise, that is in a direction transverse to the grating bars but has practically no flexibility in the direction of the grating bars. The distance between the grating bars is two to four times the rake tines thickness so that at least two rake tines can be inserted between two adjacent grating bars.

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Laval, Canada

Martin Couture