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Treating wastewater involves settling, filtering, sedimenting, coagulants, flocculants, and microorganisms, among other things. The type of wastewater, permit requirements, and regulatory bodies are the most important factors when choosing the proper treatment method.
Fremont, CA: Managing wastewater is often overlooked when it comes to business success, and emerging technologies can help reduce costs and improve discharge quality. By implementing these technologies, companies can rethink waste management, reducing waste costs and improving wastewater quality.
Understanding the Problem
Treating wastewater involves settling, filtering, sedimenting, coagulants, flocculants, and microorganisms, among other things. The type of wastewater, permit requirements, and regulatory bodies are the most important factors when choosing the proper treatment method. Existing technology, costs, and potential permit changes are also important.
Manufacturers face a challenge installing a wastewater treatment system because traditional onsite treatments can cost millions for big and small businesses. Despite investing in onsite systems, operators and maintenance costs can be high. Conventional methods can because production upsets and spikes in organic concentrations, disrupting treatment. To counter this, freshwater dilutes high-strength streams, requiring more energy, longer treatment times, and lower efficiency. This contradicts company goals for reducing water use ratios and adds costs, energy, and chemicals.
Business owners can make informed decisions about wastewater treatment by understanding the challenges and opportunities in wastewater management.
Rethinking the Box
Companies often overlook sustainable wastewater treatment because they don't have alternative technologies or retrofitting facilities, and they don't separate and treat wastewater streams according to their composition and concentration. You can save money by rethinking wastewater treatment methodologies, reducing costs, and treating more wastewater, even with a high BOD concentration. The new technology treats concentrate and problematic streams up to 200,000 mg/L BOD, using a bio-battery that thrives on the strongest organics. Small and mid-sized companies don't get to invest in cogeneration engines, which make renewable energy from methane and biogas. This wastewater treatment method also reduces the amount of water needed for dilution, saving money by reducing the energy used to move more water into a system for dilution.
