Sludge / Sediment Dewatering - Flint Technical Geosolutions

FTG Sets the Industry Standards for Geotextile Tube Dewatering

The decisions that determine geotextile tube dewatering project success — proper site preparation, polymer selection, fill cycle management, tube sizing for site conditions, the most effective dewatering fabric combined with the most efficient tube design — live in FTG’s team and in a proprietary four-level curriculum. In FTG’s field record. In the project data from 30 years of deployments.

Geotextile Tube Dewatering Industries Served

What Geotextile Tube Dewatering Makes Possible

Municipal Biosolids Dewatering — Protecting Drinking Water, Recovering Value

Untreated biosolids accumulating in lagoons degrade surrounding waterways, with downstream risk extending to drinking water supplies. TITANTube® geotextile dewatering systems capture, contain, and dewater solids at the source. Polymer conditioning produces clear filtrate at approximately 85% of the incoming flow rate. At 30%+ total solids — achievable in 30 days — dewatered biosolids are ready for land application or possibly energy conversion. A disposal cost becomes revenue or a resource.

Mining Tailings Dewatering — Coal Fines: From Waste to Recoverable Asset

Coal fines used to be waste. TITANTube® dewatering systems changed that. Fines are pumped in, process water is extracted and returned to the wash circuit, and the dewatered product is recovered and sold. The same logic applies to chrome, platinum, and sand wash operations. FTG is the only geosynthetic tube company with a qualified, trained presence in Africa — specifically trained & certified for the applications we serve — with regional inventory maintained in South Africa for rapid deployment to mining sites across the continent.

Food Processing and Agricultural Waste Dewatering

High-solids organic sludge presents complex dewatering challenges. FTG’s technical team has direct project experience with active covered anaerobic lagoons with methane release risk, floating odor-control crusts that must be preserved during dredging, and cationic emulsion polymer programs for rapid flocculation of high-organic material. Results: 14% in-situ solids to 30–40% in 45 days.

Industrial and Municipal Wastewater Treatment Sludge

Across pulp and paper, general industrial process waste, fly ash, and contaminated harbor sediment — TITANTube® systems reduce disposal volume, lower hauling and tipping costs, and produce a stabilized solid that is safer and easier to manage than liquid sludge. Filtrate goes to secondary treatment or returns to the process circuit, meeting permit requirements without a lot of moving parts to break down.

The Only Geosynthetic Tube Company with Engineers and Engineer Techs in Africa

FTG is the only geosynthetic tube company with a technical team permanently based in Africa — specifically trained & certified for the applications we serve. Specialists in Western Cape, Gauteng, and West Africa. Regional inventory in South Africa. Support equipment including moisture balances and polymer injection systems staged in-country. In-country, immediately available, hands-on technical support for mining and municipal geotextile tube dewatering projects across the continent.

What Our Clients Say

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FTG has always exceeded our expectations to provide product in a timely manner. We would like to give a big shout out to their sales reps for their professionalism and knowledge to provide solutions to our problems.

We went to a jobsite that had other geotextile tubes which the client needed us to pump, but there was additional space and more material to pump & dewater, so we used one of our TITANTubes®. Now the client wants only TITANTubes®.

My client had based their environmental permit on the TITANTube's® superior performance and have not been disappointed. The tubes have proven themselves to be very tough with excellent dewatering properties. This project has been developed and sustained, for nearly ten years, through the superior sales and technical support given by FTG.

The support, service, and quality products that you receive from FTG are second to none. They make sure to help address your onsite problems, while helping to eliminate issues on the front end by properly designing your geotextile tube system. We always enjoy working with FTG and will continue to do so in the future.

While the structural integrity and resultant margin of safety afforded by TITANTubes® is a paramount factor in our choosing to use this product exclusively, the superior performance of this product is also critical to our purchasing decisions. Relative to competing geotextile products we've used, the high flow rates that we've documented in using TITANTube® OS435 geotextile fabric have contributed to shorter dewatering times and resultant larger margins of profit on each of our projects.

We toured a privately owned and operated wastewater facility that uses TITANTubes® at the urging of a mutual business acquaintance. What we found was a product that gave us additional space and ability to pump and dewater during our yearly rainy season and would greatly increase our storage and drying abilities at very reasonable capital expenditure, so we decided to give them a try. We are now on our fourth year of sludge dewatering using the TITANTubes® and are very pleased with the product's durability. Getting the size to fit our drying beds is as simple as measuring it and placing an order for TITANTubes®.

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