1. Dissolved Air Flotation
DAF Applications and Technology
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Presented by:
Michael Vanderhooft
Applications Engineer

2. Who is WesTech?
WesTech engineers and manufactures process equipment and working solutions for water, wastewater and industrial applications. Drawing upon nearly half a century of experience, we provide our customers around the world with the best value and solutions for their process needs. The water technologies we advance and apply benefit not only our customers, but society as a whole.
Industry solutions include:
Municipal Water
Municipal Wastewater
Industrial Process
Mining and Minerals

3. Why Choose WesTech? Superior Service Intelligent Solutions
WesTech is fully invested in your satisfaction. We strive to understand our customers’ needs. Our commitment to service helps us form long-term, close-working relationships to meet and exceed your expectations.
Intelligent Solutions
With over 2000 years of cumulative engineering experience, WesTech has become a leader in developing efficient and intelligent solutions for liquid/solids separation. We use our experience and passion for problem solving to advance and apply water technologies to benefit humanity and society as a whole.
Employee-Owned
Employee ownership creates a deep commitment to the success of your project. As employee owners our goal is to provide superior service, deliver quality process equipment, and exceed your expectations. In short, we care, we ask, and we deliver!
ISO Certification
WesTech Engineering, Inc. quality system has been certified to the ISO 9001 standard since 1994.
As part of our system all equipment is pre-assembled prior to shipment to the job site. This fabrication step, coupled with mandated consistency in the procedures for project management, result in on-time delivery, trouble-free erection, and projects that meet deadlines.

4. Corporate Culture Core Purpose Core Values Mission Statement
To pursue our passion for problem solving by advancing and applying water technologies to benefit humanity.
Core Values
Exhibit honesty and integrity
Value our people and their families
Provide superior service
Always do the right thing the first time
Take pride in our products
Achieve productivity through hard work
Mission Statement
As a preferred supplier, WesTech provides reliable, competitive, and effective engineered solutions to satisfy our customers’ needs.

5. DAF Overview What does DAF stand for? How does it work?
Dissolved Air Flotation
How does it work?
Uses microscopic air bubbles dissolved into the process stream to help float suspended solids or fats, oils, and greases.
When should DAF technology be used?
Whenever the suspended solids have a specific gravity of close to or less than 1.0
If particles have difficulty settling or are naturally inclined to float.

7. Rectangular Design
This illustrates where the back pressure control valve is located with respect to the influent pipe on a side‑feed unit.

8. Rectangular Options V-Bottom with or without bottom auger.
Covered for vapor control.
Flat bottom with bottom scrapers.
WesTech can provide shaft drive or cage drive units with any one of these different configurations.
We can adapt to any configuration to best meet site‑specific conditions, cutting construction and capital costs.

9. PFD

10. Refinery Applications
Dissolved Nitrogen Flotation (DNF) Units Explosive Environment
Due to the high VOC content in refinery process wastewaters, state and federal regulations usually require that the units be covered. Because the cover traps and concentrates the VOCs inside the unit, it is not safe to use compressed air (due to its oxygen content) for the pressurization system. The use of compressed air with a covered unit would create a highly explosive environment. Instead, nitrogen is compressed and dissolved into the recycle stream.

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