SNF provides customers with sound solutions for the remediation and reclamation of contaminated and non-contaminated sediments. 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 Environmental offers a comprehensive range of unique capabilities and resources that no other polymer supplier in the industry can provide. Regardless of the industry or duration of the project, SNF Environmental 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 of dredged sediments to obtain a clear overflow by injecting polymer:
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:
SNF’s proposal is a change from the traditional lagooning process for dredged 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 after only 6 months of drying time.
Our process means that less acreage is required for settling areas, and land can be re-used after only 6 months. 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.
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.