Patent ID: 8591732
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: B01D,C02F,E03F

Abstract:
1. A separator for separation of floating, light and heavy, contaminates from an effluent stream, comprising; a container: a dividing wall separating said container into a first chamber and a second chamber, each configured for holding a quantity of fluid from said effluent stream; an inlet conduit for providing fluid to said first chamber; an outlet conduit for discharging fluid from said container; a first conduit for providing fluid from said first chamber to said second chamber; a second conduit for providing fluid from said first chamber to said outlet conduit: a weir in said dividing wall for providing fluid from said first chamber to said outlet conduit; a first flow path from said inlet conduit into said first chamber to the surface of said quantity of fluid in said first chamber out, through said first conduit, into said second chamber below the surface of said fluid in said second chamber into said outlet conduit at a first elevation; a second flow path from said inlet conduit into said first chamber below said level of said fluid in said first chamber out, through said second conduit, into said outlet conduit at a second elevation above said first elevation; a third, bypass flow path from said inlet conduit into said first chamber to the surface of said liquid in said first chamber out, through said weir, into said outlet conduit at a third elevation, above said first and second elevations.