Heron Innovators, Inc. applications

Heron Innovators provides a fully integrated Suspended Air Flotation (SAF) system for food and beverage processing facilities. SAF removes suspended solids, fats, oil and greases from wastewater. See Heron Innovators’ line of SAF Generators and ClearFloaters. These systems may be utilized as component equipment or fully integrated trailer-mounted systems. SAF wastewater process systems are versatile and cost-effective designed to use less space while removing more solids than competing traditional systems (i.e. dissolved air flotation, DAF, induced air flotation, IAF, Induced Gas Flotation, IGF, enhanced clarification, and other micro-bubble generators). SAF DOES NOT DISSOLVE AIR IN WATER THEREFORE IS NOT CONSTRAINED BY THE PHYSICS OF DISSOLVING AIR INTO WATER/GAS. Initialization & startup for SAF systems is a matter of hours, rather than days.

A tomato cannery needed additional treatment to remove suspended solids from their process wastewater. At Heron Innovators, we specialize in the design, development, fabrication, and installation of highly efficient SAF® systems. A pilot trailer was placed at the plant and ran for two months during the 2012 processing season, proving the system’s capabilities and setting the stage for the customer’s order for a complete system to be installed.

A tomato cannery needed additional treatment to remove suspended solids from their process wastewater. At Heron Innovators, we specialize in the design, development, fabrication, and installation of highly efficient SAF™ systems. A pilot trailer was placed at the plant and ran for two months during the 2012 processing season, proving the system’s capabilities and setting the stage for the customer’s order for a complete system to be installed.

Specializing in the manufacturing of the next generation of solid/liquid separation systems, Heron Innovators developed this Suspended Air Flotation (SAF) system for a customer in the truck washing industry. The skid mounted treatment system addressed the customer’s need for treatment of water reuse by removing suspended solids, oils, and grease. The solution Heron Innovators provided to the customer reduced surcharges prior to discharge to the municipal wastewater collection system.

SAF System For Title 22 Wastewater Reclamation / Tertiary Filtration. Heron Innovators manufactures Suspended Air Flotation (SAF) systems for removal of suspended solids from wastewater. SAF solutions are backed up by years of process knowledge and manufacturing ability. This particular project required the removal of specific components – algae and colloidal material – from the pond effluent. The goal was to extend filter cycle times, and achieve <9NTU water clarity prior to filtration for unrestricted reuse of wastewater.

A customer in the municipal solid waste industry needed a solid/liquid separation process as a component of a system solution for disposal of leachate water. At Heron Innovators, we specialize in Suspended Air Flotation systems for wastewater applications, and were contracted to manufacture and install a skid-mounted system to remove flocculated solids prior to disposal in a drainfield. The process incorporated lime softening to remove calcium, a major contributor to TDS, from the leachate wastestream, reducing TDS discharges by greater than 50%.

A municipal wastewater industry customer approached Heron Innovators with a need to run a treatment system pilot test. We placed our Model SAF125 Suspended Air Flotation (SAF) pilot trailer at the customer’s Sacramento, California biosolids recycling facility for three pilot runs. The pilot test runs provided data enhancing the performance of their digested sludge centrifuge operation. The pilot trailer thickens digested sludge from the treatment plant prior to the centrifuges. This advanced system is constructed from stainless steel and schedule 80 PVC. Complete fabrication was done within ±1/16-inch tolerance. The finished trailer measured 40 ft. long x 8 ft. wide x approximately 12 ft.high and features a flotation tank with internal flocculation agitator and chain and flight skimmer. Three pilot tests were run with significant results.

Specializing in state-of-the-art wastewater treatment systems, at Heron Innovators, we provided a California-based customer with our advanced Suspended Air Flotation (SAF) system technology for their new cheese processing plant. Customized SAF systems remove suspended solids from wastewater with a high capture percentage and high hydraulic and solids loading rates. The SAF system installation was custom fabricated from type 304 stainless steel, and featured a Model F25 froth generator, Model CF125 ClearFloater™ flotation tank, a polyethylene conditioning tank with a circulation / mixing pump, and a polyethylene solids holding tank. The maximum height for the tallest piece in the multi-unit system is 9 ft. The completed SAF system has a flow rate capability of 260 gpm. This system is providing remarkable solid/liquid separation results. Data showed reduction of TSS by 98% and of BOD by 30% to 50%.

Specializing in the manufacturing of the next generation of solid/liquid separation systems, Heron Innovators developed Suspended Air® Flotation (SAF®) systems for customers in the truck washing industry. These skid mounted treatment systems address customers’ need for treatment of water reuse by removing suspended solids, oils, and grease. The solution Heron Innovators provides to these customers reduces surcharges prior to discharge to municipal wastewater collection systems. At Heron Innovators, our design and build capabilities include full planning, engineering, and in-house fabrication of mechanical and electrical equipment. The overall product measures 16ft. long x 6ft. wide x 7 ft. high. These systems feature a pump capacity of 80 GPM with a small footprint and excellent solids removal. A unique attribute of SAF® is that it is not constrained by process water temperature. Project turnaround is less than 12 weeks.