Floculators In Potabılızatıon Systems: Elements For Selection And Application İn İnvestment Projects İn Tropical Countries

Abstract

This manuscript considers aspects and elements for the selection of the appropriate technology for integrated flocculators into purification systems in tropical countries, where the vast majority of these are developing countries, and in which the economic resources for investment are scarce. Given the above, the criteria of maximum flow per unit, retention time, water velocity and speed gradient within the tank, area occupied by the unit, investment, operation and maintenance costs, are some explicit indicators in the choice of adequate technology, to guarantee the reliability, complexity and flexibility of the most convenient flocculator implicitly in the purification system, which adapts to climatic variability in tropical countries