"sedimentator" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1976, United States. Office of International Marketing, Air and Water Purification and Pollution Control Equipment, page 115:",
          "text": "The sewage is pretreated mechanically before proceeding to a sedimentator with a sprinkling system and a sludge collection hopper connected to an aeration tank.",
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          "ref": "2003, F. Kongoli, Metallurgical and Materials Processing, page 339:",
          "text": "The excesses of iron and sulfur can be removed from the sedimentator as a non-toxic sediment after the second stage.",
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          "ref": "2005, S. N. Kaul, Wastewater Management: With Special Reference to Tanneries, page 50:",
          "text": "The liquid is then pumped into the hydrodynamic sedimentator.",
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          "ref": "2021, Marcel Van de Voorde, Hydrogen Production and Energy Transition:",
          "text": "The liquid current discharged from the sedimentator consists mainly of the water produced during the quench phase and those resulting from acid washing.",
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        "Any device for separating sediments from liquids, such as a centrifuge."
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          "ref": "1997, The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 468:",
          "text": "In addition, by analogy with shallow-water suspension-feeders of corresponding groups, filtering sponges and bivalve molluscs (Limopsidae and Mytilidae) and sedimentors such as serpulomorph polychaetes, Bryozoa and most likely crinoids can be included among triptonovores.",
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          "ref": "2012, Birger Pejiler, “Zooplanktic indicators of trophy and their food”, in C. Forsberg, J.A. Johansson, editors, Forest Water Ecosystems:",
          "text": "The survivors in hypertrophic lakes thus mostly consist of hig-efficiency bacteria feeders and of raptors, which also seems to be in accordances with Patalas (1954), (Pejler (1965) and Andersson et al. (1975). This can be achieved partly by a change in species composition, partly by changing proportions in the diet, implying that a greater fraction will consist of bacteria for the sedimentators and microfiltrators.",
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          "ref": "2012, Henri J. Dumont, J. Green, Rotatoria, page 61:",
          "text": "Excessive growth of blue-green algae inhibits the development of most sedimentators by eliminating most of the small algae which are the basic food of the phytophagous sedimentators (Edmondson, 1965; Pourriot, 1965; Dumont, 1977).",
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        "(zoology) An organism that feeds on bacteria or small algae that are found in sediments."
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