LAMELLA CLARIFIER

Operating principle

• Lamella clarifiers have been used for many years for sludge sedimentation. The effluent runs counter-current through a pack of lamellas housed in an appropriate tank. The effluent runs in the opposite direction to the sludge.
• Plates are organised in a chicane layout inside the tank to ensure that the effluent is uniformly distributed.
• The lamellas consist of rigid thermoformed polystyrene sheets, treated with an anti-UV additive and welded together to form parallel channels. The type and spacing of the lamellas is determined by the characteristics of the wastewater.
• R&O can supply a turnkey version, with tank and accessories, or just the lamella block in a stainless steel frame, to be inserted into existing or specific tanks.

Main applications

• Sedimentation of biological or physical-chemical sludge.
• Clarification / flocculation
• Drinking water treatment
• Clarification as part of tertiary treatment
• Precipitation of metal hydrates
• Improved sedimentation of an existing plant
• Rainwater treatment (storm tank)