Patent ID: 7601261

Claim:
SLUDGE FLOCCULATOR-SEPARATOR FOR THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF WATER, wherein it comprises a reception chamber ( 1 ) of the water to treat, with a rapid mixer ( 2 ), passing to a coagulation chamber ( 3 ) and to a chamber for flocculation ( 4 ), being mixed with coagulating reagents; provision having been made for another contiguous chamber which materialises the actual separator itself ( 7 ), where a series of filtering membranes ( 5 ) is to be found, where the water to treat is clarified as it passes through them; there existing some air inlet nozzles ( 6 ) which perform a sweep on the surface of said filtering membranes ( 5 ); and with provision furthermore having been made for some longitudinal nozzles ( 8 ) for the entrance and distribution of floccules, located beneath said filtering membranes ( 5 ).