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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2016
Hampton Roads Sanitation District, Virginia Beach, VA (US);
D.c. Water & Sewer Authority, Washington, DC (US);
Charles Bott, Virginia Beach, VA (US);
Maureen O'Shaughnessy, Herndon, VA (US);
Bernhard Wett, Innsbruck, AT;
Sudhir Murthy, Washington, DC (US);
Hampton Roads Sanitation District, Virginia Beach, VA (US);
D.C. Water & Sewer Authority, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method and a system for selecting and retaining solids with superior settling characteristics, the method comprising feeding wastewater to an input of a processor that carries out a treatment process on the wastewater, outputting processed wastewater at an output of the processor, feeding the processed wastewater to an input of a gravimetric selector that selects solids with superior settling characteristics, and outputting a recycle stream at a first output of the gravimetric selector back to the processor.