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Oct 1968
Design of Sludge Digestion Tanks
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Volume 94, Issue 5
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Recent innovations and improvements in the design of sludge digestion tanks, not yet widely known among engineers, are considered. These include: (1) Essentially flat bottoms with multiple sludge withdrawal pipes; (2) open-ended pipes laid on the floor for the injection of compressed gas, needed for efficient mixing; (3) openings of ample size in the wall at floor level to facilitate emptying and access; (4) sampling pipes from different elevations, of ample diameter, and with discharges designed to avoid splashing; (5) a membrane cover (tried on one digester); (6) Gas piping from a single digester, large enough to carry gas displaced by pumping sludge into the tank plus about eight times the estimated average gas production; and (7) in a trickling filter plant, gas from the digester may be disposed of by blowing it through the filter.
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Journal of the Sanitary Engineering Division
Volume 94 • Issue 5 • October 1968
Pages: 769 - 777
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© 1968 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Feb 12, 2021
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Richard D. Pomeroy, F.ASCE
Pres., Pomeroy, Johnston and Bailey, Pasadena, Calif.
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