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Tube Settler Sedimentation Process Design

Date: 2025-11-12
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Inclined Tube Sedimentation Tank Design Calculations
Blue block is the design datameter: be filled in
Brown:calculate process data
Red:last result for your process
1.UV Tupe Settlers----Known conditions:
Water intake(Q) million tons/day 0.578703704  m³/s
Self-use coefficient %
Then the water intake(Q') 0.60764  m³/s 2187.5  m³/h
The number of designed inclined tube sedimentation tanks is 2
Single seat Q1 0.30382  m³/s 1093.75  m³/h
Clear water area upward flow velocity 1.3  mm/s
Take the particle setling velocity 0.3  mm/s
Take SS and NTU correlation coefficient as 1.2 
Inlet NTU 50  60  mg/L
Effluent NTU 3.6  mg/L
Heat-pressed hexagonal honeycomb tube made of plastic sheet
Thickness 0.40  mm
Side distance 35  mm
Horizontal inclination 60  °
 
2. UV Tupe Settlers----Single Tank Calculation
a.Clear water area(A) 233.71  Which the area occupied by the inclined tube structure is 3%.
The actual clear water area(A') 240.72 
Take the pool width(B) 12  m
Then the pool length(L) 20.06  m
Take L 20.50  m Under the condition ofuniform water distribution,
the water inlet is arranged along the width of the pool
b.Inclined tube length L The fow velocity inthe tube V0 1.50  mm/s
Length of inclined pipe L 405.22  mm
Considering the turbulent flow of mud accumulation at the end of the pipe,the length of the pipe in the transition area is adopted as follows 250  mm
Then the total length of the inclined pipe L' 655.22  mm
( Take) L' 800  mm
c.Calcuation of sludge discharge Daily sedimentationtank dry sludge volume. G 1.481  t
Take sludge water content 98  %
Take sludge density p 1.03  t/m³
Daily volume of wet sludge insedimentation tank.                                         V wet 71.87 
Designed to discharge sludge 6 times a day, then every 4 hours scraping sludge once

Theneachtime the sludge volume V'
11.98 
(Take) V' 12.0 
Installation of two sludge hoppers at the inlet end
Single bucket discharge volume V single 6.0 

Take the area of the bottom surface of the hopper F1
0.6 
Mud bucket onthe bottom surface area F2 5.0 

Mud bucket height h1
2.5 

Thenthe volume of the mud storage part of the mud hopper
6.11 
Larger than single hopper discharge Meet sludge discharge requirements
The use of double wire rope traction scraper, winch platform placed in the middle of the sedimentation tank
Take the scraper height h2 0.1  m
Scraper width  b2 6.0  m
Scraper traveling speed V2 1.0  m/min
Two scraper a working cycle scraping amount of mud V 1.37 
Scraper a working cycle time required T 41.00  min
Diameter of discharge pipe d 200  mm
Take the mud discharge time T 1.5  h
Discharge mud flow rate V 0.04  m/s
d.Sedimentation tank height
Adoption of protection height  h
0.3  m
Clear water area height   h 1.2  m
Water distribution area height  h 1.5  m
Sludge hopper height   h 2.5  m
nclined pipe height 0.69  m
Total height of sedimentationtank H 6.19  m
e.Review of Re and settling time T. 8.75  mm
Hydraulic radius R= 0.875  cm
The flow velocity inthe tube  Vo 0.15  cm/s
Take the kinematic viscosity V 0.01  cm²/s
then the Reynolds number Re 13.13 
Sedimentationtime T 532.94  S
= 8.88  min

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