The new MBR Decanter from Westfalia Separator offers significant cost saving advantages and short pay back time when used for the final dewatering of sewage sludge from membrane filtration systems.

The new MBR Decanter from Westfalia Separator offers significant cost saving advantages and short pay back time when used for the final dewatering of sewage sludge from membrane filtration systems. Designed specifically to meet the demands of the growth in popularity of membrane bio-reactor technology in the treatment of waste water and purification of drinking water, combined with the need to save on sludge disposal costs, the MBR Decanter offers a proven and cost effective, plug and play dewatering solution. Capable of very high throughputs of homogenous sludge, with processing rates from 1m3/h to more than 100m3/h, the Westfalia Separator MBR Decanter achieves up to a five percent higher level of dewatering than other conventional dewatering techniques employing chamber filter presses or strainer belt presses.

Water recovery is improved and the volume of sludge requiring disposal is at least 20 percent lower with advantageous disposal costs.

The MBR Decanter can create operating cost efficiencies with a 20 percent reduction in comparative power consumption whilst the special design of the MBR Decanter means that less flocculants are needed with a potential 10 to 15 percent saving.

Overall the MBR Decanter offers operating expenses that are at least 20 percent lower than for other conventional dewatering techniques.

The MBR Decanter is designed for continuous operation eliminating the need for frequent rinsing and cleaning of filtration elements necessary with other sludge dewatering technologies.

With its compact design the new decanter from Westfalia Separator is ideal where space constraints are an issue, particularly if capital investment on new buildings is prohibited.

Working in partnership with membrane filtration system suppliers, Westfalia Separator have a number of reference installations world-wide, where increased efficiency of waste water treatments plants has been achieved using complementary membrane and centrifuge technology.