DredgingWHERE SETTLING IS ONLY FOR SEDIMENTS

SNF offers a wide range of products and technical services within the dredging sector, from treatment chemistry, equipment design and installation, and tails management.  This can take place with any waterway, or any municipal or industrial lagoon.

With an extensive range of polymers, preparation, and dosing equipment manufactured in-house, and a well-seasoned team of application specialists, SNF offers a comprehensive range of unique capabilities and resources that no other polymer manufacturer in the industry can provide.  Regardless of the industry or duration of the project, SNF can design a program that will best suit your needs.

SNF polymers are sold and marketed extensively in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment applications worldwide.  Many of these same SNF polymers are also used by dredging contractors for enhanced solids-liquids separation of dredged sediments in order to reduce sludge volumes that must be reclaimed or disposed of.  In doing so, settling, thickening, and dewatering times can be significantly reduced versus using large land areas for ponds.


SETTLING / THICKENING

Settling/Thickening of dredged sediments to obtain a clear overflow by injecting polymer:

  • Directly into hopper dredges – to enhance the settling rate of sediment and clarify overflow water for discharge
  • Prior to settlement ponds – improved settling rate of sediment and solids capture means less land and fewer ponds necessary, with cleaner overflow water for reuse or discharge

Dredging
Dredging

DEWATERING

Dewatering of dredged or pre-thickened dredged sediments in order to produce friable cake solids capable of being reclaimed or disposed of.  Some of the common dewatering methods used in dewatering dredge sediments with the aid of SNF polymers, equipment, and service are:

  • Geotextile tubes
  • Belt filter presses
  • Plate and frame presses
  • Centrifuges

PORT CONSTRUCTION

SNF’s proposal is a change from the traditional dredging process for sediments from port construction or waterways dredging projects.  Typically, after many years of natural drying in upland or nearshore containment ponds or lagoons, the resulting dried sediment is heterogeneous.

However, with the use of SNF polymers injected prior to settling/thickening within a containment pond or lagoon, homogeneous flocs comprised of sand and fine particles leave valuable land or dewatered solids much faster than through settling without SNF polymers.

Our process means that less acreage is required for settling areas, and land can be re-used much faster than without treatment.  It is a cost-effective alternative, as there is less capital investment needed, and our process is less expensive overall to operate than conventional sediment settling and disposal on a total cost basis.

Dredging
Dredging

CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS

In the case of contaminated sediments, SNF polymers are able to enhance dewatering of those sediments, resulting in cleaner discharge water and reduced volume of solids that need to be transported and disposed of in an approved hazardous waste landfill.

SNF SERVICES FOR DREDGING PROJECTS

  • Review of project objectives and treatment plan
  • Polymer selection and supply
  • Makedown equipment design and supply
  • Field start-up
  • Field technical support

CONTACT THE SNF DREDGING TEAM TODAY!

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