Claro - Model Big Bubble Gun -Gas Mixers
Claro Big Bubble Gun™ Mixer systems are a proven anaerobic digester mixing technology that significantly reduces sludge disposal volumes and disposal costs, provides greater volatile solids destruction and overall biogas production, reduces sludge dewatering costs and presents almost no oversight or maintenance requirements. This superior process performance is delivered at less than 50% of the energy input of conventional mixing systems.
Claro engineers have 35 years experience in the design and implementation of over 300 large and small metropolitan digester applications across Canada and the United States. We are the original designer and exclusive manufacturer of Big Bubble Gun Mixing systems.
Introducing a large piston-bubble at fixed intervals into the lower end of the mixing unit`s submerged draft tube, Claro Big Bubble Gun Mixers deliver up to 95% active tank volume and reduce digester tank maintenance by scouring the tank floor, suspending heavier solids, and breaking floating scum. The newly designed Claro bubble injector already proven in major digester applications has large internal clearances that resist clogging even in poorly screened tanks and is equipped with an added fail-safe feature: the mixer can be completely flushed out from outside the tank and without tank drainage. The system has no moving parts within the tank. Instead, it uses a quiet, low-maintenance, and all-stainless-steel liquid ring biogas recirculation compressor. Equipped with heat exchanger jackets, Claro Big Bubble Gun Mixers can also integrate heating into the digester tank enabling the elimination of external heat exchangers, associated sludge pumps, and piping.
Please see details on our Gas Mixer Retrofit Program for the cost-effective and quick modernization of your existing gas or mechanical draft tube mixing system.
Two-phase / dual-stage, mesophilic, and thermophic anaerobic digestion systems available. Please see Claro Heat Exchangers and Heat Recovery.
- Up to 95% active volume and even temperature distribution within +/- 1 deg. F.
- Best biosolid destruction = lower disposal costs, more biogas production, and lower energy costs
- Quickest turnover rate = shortest retention times, increased capacities
- Non-clog bubble injector design
- Unique fail-safe flushing system
- No moving parts inside tank
- Corrosion-resistant gas mixers and piping
- Outperforms all other mechanical and gas mixers
- More than double the mixing rate of mechanical mixers for the same power input
- up to 50% less energy input than conventional systems
- Powerful digester tank floor scouring = minimizes sedimentation and tank maintenance
- Direct-mount tripod supports = no mixing dead zones
- Complete destruction of floating tank scum
- Heat exchanger jackets for internal tank heating available
- Claro AccuBubble 24/7 electronic monitoring of system with link to plant PLC
- Effective even in very deep and hostile environment tanks
- Adaptable to most tank configurations including modified egg shape
- Floor, wall, and roof-mounted units available
- Also used for de-icing of harbors, lake destratificaton, and a broad range of challenging mixing applications characterized by high viscosities, high suspended solids content including mining slurries, and very deep bodies/tanks of liquid.
