sedimentator

Noun

sedimentator (plural sedimentators)

1. Any device for separating sediments from liquids, such as a centrifuge.
   • The sewage is pretreated mechanically before proceeding to a sedimentator with a sprinkling system and a sludge collection hopper connected to an aeration tank.1976, United States. Office of International Marketing, Air and Water Purification and Pollution Control Equipment, page 115
   • The excesses of iron and sulfur can be removed from the sedimentator as a non-toxic sediment after the second stage.2003, F. Kongoli, Metallurgical and Materials Processing, page 339
2. An organism that feeds on bacteria or small algae that are found in sediments.
   • 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.1997, The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 468
   • 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...2012, Birger Pejiler, “Zooplanktic indicators of trophy and their food”, in C. Forsberg, J.A. Johansson, editors, Forest Water Ecosystems