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surface loading rate

One of the guidelines for the design of settling tanks and clarifiers in treatment plants. Used by operators to determine if tanks and clarifiers are hydraulically (flow) over- or underloaded. Also called overflow rate or surface settling rate.

 

surface loading rate = (flow rate/surface area)