A floatation separation apparatus includes a stirring tank, a stirring pump installed in the stirring tank, a floatation tank into which flocculated water flows from the stirring tank through an overflow dam, a scraping device (scraper) configured to scrape floating substances in the floatation tank, a treated water tank into which treated water in the floatation tank flows, and a pump and a hose for returning the treated water in the treated water tank to a raw water tank. The stirring pump sucks air and water inside the stirring tank, and discharges water mixed with air bubbles to a lower part of the stirring tank. The height of the overflow dam is adjustable.

A composite ozone flotation integrated device may include a cylinder body, an intermediate cylinder, and a central cylinder which are coaxial. The cylinder body and the center cylinder have a common bottom. The cylinder body and the intermediate cylinder have a common top. The intermediate cylinder is arranged on support channel steel between the cylinder body and the center cylinder. A top of the center cylinder is in the intermediate cylinder. The top of the center cylinder is open-mouthed. An upper part of the cylinder body is provided with a drainpipe. The top of the cylinder body is provided with an inner cylinder exhaust pipe and a slag discharge pipe. An upper part of the intermediate cylinder is provided with an outer cylinder exhaust pipe. A lower part of the center cylinder is connected to a water inlet pipe, a dissolved gas inlet pipe, and a venting and sludge-discharge pipe.

A system for recovering fat, oil and grease (FOG) from wastewater has multiple annular flotation zones in a concentric configuration surrounding a central column to create progressively increasing surface areas for FOG and solid particles flotation, and thereby enhance FOG recovery and removal. Each flotation zone is equipped with an independent pressurized micro air and ozone bubbles distribution system. A controlled amount of ozone can be injected into the wastewater along with recirculated effluent and micro-size air bubbles. Upon the release of pressurized air-ozone-water mixture, micro-size bubbles are generated and distributed in each flotation zone to effectively float up FOG and solid particles in the wastewater stream.

A method and apparatus is disclosed for separating an amount of an amphiphilic contaminant substance such as PFAS from water. The method comprising the steps of admitting the water which contains the substance into a flotation cell chamber, and then introducing a flow of gas thereinto. The gas is introduced by several different apparatus options for efficient aeration of the chamber, depending on the water being treated. The introduced gas produces a froth layer which is formed at, and which rises above, an interface with the contents of the chamber. The froth layer includes an amount of water and also a concentrated amount of the contaminant substance when compared with its initial concentration. The process then involves collapsing and removing the froth layer, with several options for removing the PFAS from that liquid by re-flotation to reconcentrate the PFAS, or absorption onto a solid substrate material. The treated water an also pass out of the chamber through an absorptive treatment device to remove an amount of the substance not already recovered in the foamate.

Disclosed herein is a multibubble injection type DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation) water treatment apparatus which supplies fine bubbles injected through injection of saturated water to a lower area of a separation zone as well as a lower area of a contact zone of a flotation basin, thereby improving removal efficiency of flocs.

A system for separating competing anions from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a flow of water contaminated with PFAS and elevated levels of competing anions that includes a separation subsystem which receives the flow of water contaminated with PFAS and elevated levels of competing anions and separates competing anions from the PFAS and concentrates the PFAS to produce a treated flow of water having separated competing anions therein and a flow of water having a majority of PFAS therein. At least one anion exchange vessel having an anion exchange resin therein receives the flow of water having a majority of PFAS therein and removes PFAS from the water to produce a flow of treated water having a majority of the PFAS removed. The separation of competing anions by the separation subsystem increases the treatment capacity of the anion exchange resin to remove PFAS from the contaminated water.

A water treatment device based on micro-nano bubble technology includes the micro-nano bubble generation device and the sewage tank, the sewage tank is also installed with water surface sewage collection mechanism and water surface sewage cleaning mechanism, the water surface sewage collection mechanism includes the pushing plate and the first transmission component, the pushing plate and the sewage tank are slidingly connected, and the pushing plate is also fixedly connected to the limit connecting rod, the water surface sewage cleaning mechanism includes the cleaning sieve plate and the sewage collecting box, and the cleaning sieve plate is vertically arranged inside the sewage tank, and the sewage tank is fixedly connected with the hinged table, the hinged table is connected with the first rotating shaft and the rear wall of the sewage tank is also equipped with the second transmission component.

Frother composition and method of concentrating minerals by flotation. The method comprises providing an aqueous slurry formed by the minerals in finely divided form in water; optionally adding a collector to render the mineral hydrophobic; subjecting the slurry thus obtained to flotation in a flotation cell aerated to form bubbles; and recovering the hydrophobic mineral particles together with the froth to form a concentrate. In the method, an amphiphilic cellulose derivative, is used as such or in combination with a second surfactant as a frother to promote the formation of a stable froth on top of the slurry in the flotation cell. Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose or hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose are combined with at least one non-ionic organic surfactant or polyglycol esters, for providing a frother. The novel cellulose-based frothers can be used in mineral processing plants to allow for processing of larger quantities of minerals without significant modification of existing facilities.

The embodiments of this disclosure are related to a water treatment system comprising a flotation tank, a shell-tube inlet conduit connected to the flotation tank and comprising a shell configured to supply a gas and at least one tube configured to supply untreated water, wherein each of the shell and the tube has a first part exposed to an outside of the flotation tank and a second part extending into the flotation tank, a microbubble forming means positioned on or adjacent to the second part of the shell, and a treated water outlet connected to the flotation tank and configured to allow treated water separated from solids in the flotation tank to be discharged therethrough.

A method for treating process water of a flotation arrangement is disclosed. The process comprising the steps of a) dewatering overflow of a mineral flotation circuit in a gravitational solid-liquid separator to separate a sediment from a supernatant comprising water, silica-containing particles and soluble SiO2, fine particles, microbes, and residual flotation chemicals; b) subjecting the supernatant to cleaning flotation, in which at least 90% of the flotation gas bubbles have a size from 0.2 to 250 m, in a cleaning flotation unit for collecting at least silica-containing particles, for separating at least silica-containing particles from the supernatant into cleaning flotation overflow, and for forming purified process water as cleaning flotation underflow; c) removing cleaning flotation overflow as tailings; and d) recirculating purified process water into the mineral flotation circuit. A process water treatment arrangement is also disclosed.