Design Improvement through Development of a Pilot-Scale Rotating Bed Filter (RBF)**System for Testing Performance Parameters

在人口增长、基础设施老化和日益严格的处理限制的推动下，许多废水处理设施正面临新的挑战，包括在扩大处理能力的同时节省成本，并转向更可持续的工艺概念。在废水处理厂中常用的单元操作中，扩大初级处理以增加固体和流出物有机物的去除可能特别繁重，因为固定混凝土澄清器构成废水处理厂占地面积的重要部分。位于伦敦安大略的特洛伊技术公司开发了一种旋转床过滤（RBF）系统，可 ** 作为一种替代技术或初级澄清的补充。特洛伊技术公司提议与兰顿学院的兰顿水中心合作，以协助改进和优化这项 ** 技术。特洛伊正在寻找开发一个小规模的RBF系统（基于他们的Salsnes系统）与兰顿 ** 学院。这种装置必须适应基于测试所需的重新设计，并且便携且 ** 足够可靠，以便部署到真实的废水处理厂中进行数据收集。**该研究团队将包括两名研究技术人员和两名研究生，他们将与 **Trojan Technologies团队密切合作，以完善小规模的设计，并使用这些设计构建成一个 ** 演示单元。从这个合作项目中获得的结果，将大大有助于该Salsnes过滤器技术在设计，功能和适用性方面的未来发展。

Driven by population growth, aging infrastructure, and increasingly stringent treatment limits, many wastewater**facilities are facing new challenges including expanding treatment capacity while saving costs and moving towards**more sustainable process concepts. Among the unit operations commonly employed in a wastewater treatment**plant, expanding primary treatment to increase solids and effluent organic matter removal could be particularly**onerous as fixed concrete clarifiers make up a significant portion of a wastewater treatment plants footprint.**Trojan Technologies located in London Ontario has developed a rotating bed filtration (RBF) system that can**function as a replacement technology or supplement to primary clarification. Trojan Technologies is proposing to**partner with Lambton College's Lambton Water Centre to assist with the improvement and optimization of this**technology. Trojan is looking to develop a small scale RBF system (based on their Salsnes system) with Lambton**College. Such unit must be adaptable to the re-designs required based on testing as well as portable and**sufficiently reliable to be deployed, for data collection, into real wastewater treatment plants.**The research team that will include two research technicians and two research students will work closely with the**Trojan Technologies team to perfect the design at the smaller scale, them use the designs to build into a**demonstration unit. The results obtained from this collaboration project, will greatly aid in the future development**of this Salsnes Filter Technology, both in design, functionality and applicability.