DAF Corporation has years of experience and expertise to recommend, manufacture, rebuild and install wastewater treatment equipment. We can provide services such as process consultation and conduct wastewater characterization and pilot equipment studies for our customers.

Our flagship product, the DAF Maximizer FC clarifier, is an innovative, hybrid dissolved air flotation cell. The DAF Maximizer features a circular tank design in sizes varying from 6' diameter to 70' diameter enabling the treatment of process flows ranging from 29 gallons per minute to 11,000 gallons per minute.

The standard DAF Maximizer FC clarifier comprises a stainless steel round tank, epoxy painted carbon steel tank supports, side wall stiffeners, heavy duty tank rim, top carriage, and catwalks. Units can be constructed with stainless steel throughout.

The round tank, approximately 32" deep, has a center carriage that rotates at the same velocity as the influent is being discharged into the tank. By this means, quiescent flotation conditions are created. Actual water depth in the tank varies from 16" to 18" depending upon sludge consistency requirements.  At the designed hydraulic loading rate of 3.5 gallons per minute per square foot of surface area, the retention time is approximately 3 minutes.  All Maximizer FCs are configured with the Air Mixing Tube (AMT), an essential complement to the system. The combination of quiescent flotation conditions, shallow tank depth, and efficient air dissolving system ensures that the DAF Maximizer system removes suspended solids from water with high efficiency.

Applications:  The Maximizer FC is used for clarification of wastewater, clarification of raw water for potable use, material recovery, and sludge thickening. Potential end users are pulp and paper industry, pharmaceutical industry, food processing, dairy plants, municipalities and utilities.  Removal of suspended solids can exceed 98% and sludge consistency of 2-4% is typical.