WEF Manual of Practice No.FD-8
Second edition
by the Water Environment Federation
The complete guide to wastewater clarification!
Features of Clarifier Design:
- Traditional and leading-edge methods
- Objective approaches to analyzing and improving clarifier design
- Latest information on software modeling
- Complete instructions for field testing
- Step-bt-step evaluation based on resources and needs
- New Design Efficiency (DE) standard for wastewater clarifiers
- Integration with solids-handling facilities
- Wastewater clarification approaches in Europe
- Circular and rectangular clarifiers
- "Nuts and bolts" details on processes and equipment
- Key parameters for clarification
- Performance monitoring and control equipment
- Assessing vendor claims
- Demonstrating product superiority
Contents
- Introduction
- Primary Clarifier Design Concepts and Considerations
- High Rate & Wet Weather Clarifier Design Concepts & Considerations
- Secondary Clarifier Design Concepts and Considerations
- Tertiary Clarifier Design Concepts and Considerations
- Mathematical Modeling of Secondary Settling Tanks
- Field Testing
- Circular Clarifiers
- Rectangular Clarifiers
- Clarifier Performance Monitoring and Control
- International Approaches
- Interaction of Clarifiers with Other Facilities
Appendix: Settling Test Procedure
Index