The City of Moultrie and their engineer, Carter & Sloope, contacted Centrisys to come in a perform a pilot and dewater their anaerobic digesters with a Model CS 18-4 Centrifuge. The Centrisys pilot was a self contained skid mounted machine with sludge pump, polymer feed system, and control panel mounted on a trailer.

The goal of the pilot was to see how the centrifuge would perform with Moultrie’s digested sludge and how labor intensive it would be to operate a centrifuge compared to the labor required to dewater their sludge on the existing drying beds.

The first few days of the pilot was spent testing sludge feed rates and polymer types and polymer strengths to optimize the performance of the machine. Once this was done, it was go, go, go until the plant’s digesters were basically "pumped dry". The plant personnel were shown the tricks of the trade on how to operate the centrifuge and by the third day, were operating it with little or no supervision.

The test results were extremely positive. In summary, the sludge coming to the centrifuge was in the 5% to 6% range and the dewatered solids coming off the centrifuge were consistently above 30% dryness.

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