Aquarius & Water Boy
® ™
Package Water Treatment Plants
Economical Aquarius ®
Flocculation, Sedimentation, and Filtration in Packaged Configuration
Water filtration using the Aquarius system provides high quality water treatment
with minimal ceiling height and footprint.
Aquarius systems provide you:
• 350 to 1400 gpm treatment per system
• Modular construction
• Dual tanks for redundancy
• Effective removal of turbidity, color, iron, Applications
manganese, and arsenic
• Surface water treatment
• Automatic operation by PLC and Aquaritrol®
• Municipal
chemical optimization
• Industrial
The Aquarius system minimizes size and cost while maximizing efficiency and
performance. It is one of the many Microfloc packaged water treatment systems Features
available to solve your plant needs. • Modular construction
• Two complete process trains
Introduced in 1967, the number of locations realizing the benefits of the Aquarius • Automatic operation
system continues to grow, with more than 300 units installed to date.
• Conventional treatment process
• Aquaritrol chemical control
How it works: The modular Aquarius unit consists of two complete process
trains to allow uninterrupted water service – even when one module is being
backwashed. Aquarius units are supplied with chemical pumps to feed coagulant Benefits
and polymer. Each process train includes two-stage flocculators with adjustable • Lower installation costs and time
blades. The settling compartment is equipped with horizontal tube settlers and • Uninterrupted water service
flow distribution baffles. The filter compartment utilizes MULTIBLOCK® under- • Less operator attention and
drains, level controls, mixed media, and air wash. A double bulkhead between higher quality effluent
the filter and settler eliminates the possibility of unfiltered water reaching the
• Automatic chemical feed
plant outlet. Automatic operation is provided by a programmable logic controller optimization
(PLC) with integral Aquaritrol process, providing chemical optimization.
Tube settlers improve the clarification process by decreasing the distance a
particle falls to settle out of the water stream. Plastic sheets form approximately
2”-diameter openings which run diagonally from bottom to top. The angle of
incline determines maximum settling distance and available surface area. Today,
most tube settlers use an angle of 60°, which allows settled sludge to automatically
discharge from the bottom of the tube settler. This also requires a sludge removal
system below the tube settlers to remove the sludge from the system. In small
basins, a passive header-lateral design is often used while a moving sludge-
Tube Settlers for Improved Clarification removal header system is commonly applied in large basins.
The Aquarius and Water Boy designs utilize tube settlers with a 7.5° incline from
horizontal. This provides more settling area per square foot of basin than 60°
designs, allowing for a smaller system footprint. With the low angle of incline,
sludge is stored within the tubes rather than settled to the basin floor. During a
filter backwash event, the filter wastewater is passed through the tube settlers
to flush out settled solids. The solids are then discharged to a waste sump. No
sludge removal system is required below the tubes, reducing installation and
maintenance costs and simplifying operation.
Packaged Water Boy™ System
Delivers Small Flow Treatment
The Water Boy is a smaller version of the Aquarius. It is more suitable for small communities, low-flow industrial applications, resorts,
and recreation sites.
Water Boy provides you:
• Small footprint Features
• Complete self-contained treatment • Factory assembled
• Full factory assembly • Flocculation, tube settling
chamber, and mixed media
• Economical installation and operation filter all in one tank
• Four standard sizes for 10-100 gpm per unit • Mixed-media filtration
Standard units include single-stage
flocculation. Optional two-stage Benefits
flocculation is also available. Compact
• Minimizes design costs
footprint and complete factory assembly
and testing make this an ideal water • Minimizes installation costs
treatment unit for small systems.
and time
• Highly mobile
Since its introduction, more than 400 • “Plug-and-play” operation
Water Boy units have been installed
to date.
Water Boy™ Package Treatment System
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