6.3.10.- ENVIRONMENT

This unit has been designed for the practical demonstration, visualization and experimental study of the flow through permeable media and flows in subsoil.The unit basically consist of a tank (soils container) to contain the sand, lower water...

The Computer Controlled Unit for Transient Drainage Processes in Storage Reservoirs, "PDDRC", allows to investigate transient drainage processes in storage reservoirs, to simulate a rainwater retention basin and to study the operation of a surge...

The Computer Controlled Soil Moisture Suction Sand Unit "PAHSC" has been designed to study and understand the water retentivity principles in terms of soil suction, the relationship between water retentivity and soil and the derivation of soil...

The Computer Controlled Sedimentation Tank, "PDSC", is a teaching unit, designed by EDIBON, to demonstrate the sedimentation process and to familiarize with the settling principle of discrete particles settling into a tank. It will also allow to...

The Computer Controlled Flocculation Test Unit, "PEFC", shows the removal of dissolved substances by coagulation and flocculation.It has six beakers where water to be tested is poured. Each one has one adjustable speed paddle stirrer.The unit is...

The Computer Controlled Aeration Unit, "PEAIC", allows the study of the oxygen transfer characteristics of diffused air systems and the physical and chemical parameters which influence oxygenation capacity and demonstrates the water aeration...

The Computer Controlled Advanced Oxidation Unit "POAC" generates hydroxyl radicals (OH-) through ultraviolet light radiation with hydrogen peroxide.Raw water is enriched with hydrogen peroxide in a transparent tank and is driven by a pump towards...

The Computer Controlled Adsorption Unit, "PEAC", demonstrates the removal of substances dissolved by adsorption. A computer controlled pump impels raw water (treated) from a supply tank to two adsorbers filled with activated carbon. A flow sensor...

The Computer Controlled Deep Bed Filter Unit, "EFLPC", allows us to filter a fluid in order to eliminate particles in suspension, to have it in more adequate conditions for its subsequent use or consumption.The pump takes raw water from one of the...

The Computer Controlled Reverse Osmosis/Ultrafiltration Unit, "ROUC", performs a tangential flow filtration process, which is a system that prevents the formation of impurities sediments that reduces its capacity.Two variable of the effluent must...

Water is impelled by a pump from a supply tank towards a first transparent tank equipped with a stirrer and a conductivity sensor. Conductivity is regulated in this tank by the addition of diluted caustic soda impelled by a computer controlled...

The Computer Controlled Water Treatment Plant 1, "PPTAC/1", allows to study the main principle of the critical operations in the water treatment.These operations are: depth filtration, adsorption and ion exchange.The general objective of the...

The Computer Controlled Water Treatment Plant 2, "PPTAC/2", allows to study the main principle of the basic operations in the water treatment.These operations are: depth filtration and ion exchange.The general objective of the exercises is to...

The Computer Controlled Dissolved Air Flotation Unit, "PFADC", has been designed to study the flotation treatment process. For that purpose, raw water with different chemical products will be treated. Flotation is achieved when a fluid with...

The Computer Controlled Activated Sludge Process Unit, "PPFAC", has been designed to simulate theoperation of a wastewater treatment plant, breaking down water organic components with aerobicmicroorganism cultures (activated sludge).The unit is...

The Computer Controlled Biofilm Process Unit, "PPBC", has been designed to study the operation of a trickling filter, which removes microorganisms and filters contaminated water. The unit simulates the treatment given to water in a wastewater...

The Computer Controlled Hydrocyclone, "PHCC", has been designed to study the removal of suspended solids from a liquid. The fluid flowing through the unit is a mixture of water and suspended solids. The mixture is prepared in an initial tank with...

The Computer Controlled Gas Flow Classification Unit, "PSNC", is intended to separate solid material mixtures depending on the size of the components through a zigzag gravity classifier. When the process is complete, thin and coarse materials are...

The Computer Controlled Magnetic Separation Unit, "PSMC", has been designed to understand the operation of a magnetic rotary drum used to classify materials of different magnetic characteristics.The main components of the unit are: a feed hopper...

The Computer Controlled Gas Cyclone, "PCGC", is a unit designed to study the separation of heterogeneous mixtures through a cyclone, specifically those made up of a thin material (4 μm – 400 μm) and an air flow. The cyclone, the main component of...

The Computer Controlled Gas Washing Processing Plant, "PLGC", has a water feed tank, from which and by means of a water pump, the water is pumped to the upper part of a column. The solids are added by means of a solid dosing system to the air...