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Southern Alberta Municipal WWTP: Second Centrifuge Case Study

A HAUS DDE 4042 decanter centrifuge with an Archer control panel dewaters municipal sludge at a wastewater treatment plant in Southern Alberta.

HAUS DDE 4042 decanter centrifuge at the municipal wastewater treatment plant

2020In service
DDE 4042HAUS decanter centrifuge
23 %design cake solids
600 kg DS/hcapacity

The application

A municipal wastewater treatment plant in Southern Alberta added a second dewatering centrifuge for its blended primary and waste-activated sludge.

What Archer supplied

  • HAUS DDE 4042 decanter centrifuge (Centrifuge No. 2)
  • Archer control panel
  • Installation support, commissioning and performance testing

Design basis

FeedBlended primary and waste-activated sludge, 3.7 % solids
Flow17.5 m³/h
Cake23 % dry solids
Polymer10 kg/dry tonne

Design figures from the equipment proposal.

Dewatered sludge cake from the centrifuge at the municipal wastewater treatment plant
Dewatered cakeCake in the truck bin.

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