Patent ID: 8302780

Claim:
A plant for separating and dewatering wastewater, the plant comprising: an enclosure; an inclined rotating conveyor belt of filter material disposed within said enclosure, lower and upper portions of said conveyor belt encircling a lower pulley and an upper pulley; a wastewater inlet in a wall of said enclosure for delivering the wastewater onto the upper portion of the conveyor belt, wherein a filtered water from the wastewater flows through the conveyor belt leaving a cake on and in the conveyor belt; a spray nozzle mounted between the upper and the lower portions of the conveyor belt, the nozzle positioned for directing wash water at the lower portion of the conveyor belt for washing the cake off the lower portion of the conveyor belt; an auger screw positioned below the conveyor belt in a position for receiving the cake and the wash water from the conveyor belt; a pair of drains positioned at opposing ends of the auger screw; and a pair of dam plates positioned adjacent to the lower pulley, one of said dam plates being substantially horizontally mounted to said enclosure for directing the wastewater onto the upper portion of the conveyor belt, and the other of said dam plates extending longitudinally between said lower and upper portions of said conveyor belt for directing the filtered water into an alley for exiting the plant.