Abstract: In apparatus for the anaerobic purification of waste water the invention aims at improving the structure and the operation. In known apparatus of this kind there is a reactor tank with one or more aftersettling compartments in the upper part thereof, with inlet and outlet openings for water and sludge into and from the aftersettling compartments from and into the reactor tank respectively.
Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for anaerobic purification of waste or effluent water comprising particles which comprises a reactor, an after-settler device in the top part of the reactor which separates an upper settling zone from an anaerobic decomposition zone, and means are provided for using the developed methane gas as a transport aid of the particles and for separating said gas from said particles.