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Why Buy a Dissolved Air flotation (DAF) System?
Dissolved Air Floatation is widely used for separating solids, fats, oil, and grease from a waste stream.

Published: 3/19/2025 by Andrew Kelly
Dissolved Air Floatation is widely used for separating solids, fats, oil, and grease from a waste stream.

Why Buy a DAF System?
- Most efficient footprint in the industry. Small footprint, maximum surface area.
- Fewer moving parts. We do not need a bottom auger as most traditional systems still use.
- Industrial-strength American-made pumps ensure trouble-free operation. We understand industrial wastewater and how critical pump reliability is in the field.
- Utilizes settling tubes to greatly enhance surface area and sludge separation time.
- Air scouring for automatic settling tube cleaning.
- Sludge grating providing enhanced thickening with a variable-speed counter-current scraper.
- We will meet or exceed your discharge limits.
- Traditional DAF aeration enhanced with our proprietary technology embeds air bubbles into the sludge.
- Can be enhanced to a fully integrated treatment system on a single skid. Fully integrated flocculation tubes, chemical feed pumps, control panel, and more are all pre-wired and pre-tested.
- Fully designed and fabricated in-house in our USA factory using exacting standards.
Industries Well Suited to DAF
To help you understand if a DAF is the right fit for your wastewater treatment needs, the following industries are ideal matches for a DAF system:
- Automotive
- Bakery / baked goods
- Beverage factories (juice, soda)
- Breweries
- Confectionery/candy manufacturing
- Dairy processing (milk, cheese, yogurt)
- Egg processing
- Food processing and packaging
- Ice cream
- Meat processing / slaughterhouse (beef, pigs, sheep, goats)
- Metal plating and finishing
- Paper and pulp industry
- Poultry processing (chickens, turkey, duck, geese)
- Printing (ink removal from wastewater)
- Produced Water for Oil & Gas
- Recycling of glass, plastics, paper
- Slaughterhouse / Abattoir
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