SLUDGE MANAGEMENT
Delivering smart solutions for septicity monitoring
As one of the UK’s most innovative and proactive water companies, Yorkshire Water has embarked on a ground-breaking project, utilising a first-of-its-kind, smart sensor solution to monitor, manage and control septicity. ATi’s Senior Service Engineer, Mark Holmes, discusses how...
New portable tank cleaning service for utilities sector
Industrial cleaning and waste management specialist Qualitech has launched a new tank cleaning service for the utilities sector, following an investment in the latest screening and classification technology from wet processing industry experts CDE.
CDE’s D:MAX is a mobile, trailer-mounted...
Yorkshire Water working with Anglian on sludge trade deal
Yorkshire Water is working in partnership with Anglian Water to ensure sludge can be treated efficiently.
As part of the short-term partnership, sludge will be transported from Anglian’s treatment works in Great Billing to Yorkshire Water’s wastewater treatment facilities.
Yorkshire Water...
Sludge cake to liquid in minutes
Yorkshire Water Knostrop is a large wastewater treatment plant servicing a growing population of 800,000 people. The decision was taken to rebuild the works with standard digestion and a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant. The contract was given...
SEEPEX back mixing technology increases sludge throughput
SEEPEX engineered solution encompassing progressive cavity pumps for dewatered sludge back mixing has increased sludge throughput at Anglian Water’s Cotton Valley cake import facility by 50%, enabling the site to generate more biogas, and delivering significant savings in logistics...
Continuous, real-time monitoring of sludge blanket levels
ATi UK’s Senior Service Engineer, Mark Holmes, discusses the cutting-edge technologies available for measuring and monitoring sludge blanket, providing optimum efficiency and flexibility through smart, ultrasonic and continuous, real-time measurement.
Measuring and managing the depth of sludge blanket is one...
A win-win for the environment and water companies, EloVac®- P, vacuum degassing of digested sludge.
ELIQUO is a group of companies operating in the field of municipal water, wastewater and sludge treatment. Together, th-ey provide a comprehensive range of solutions: from EPC contracting in Germany and the Netherlands, to technology licensing and implementation in...
THAT’S THE POWER OF POO!
David Hartley explains how Anglian Water is generating enough energy from its combined heat and power (CHP) plants to run a town the size of Lowestoft for a year.
Last year was a record year for combined heat and power...
The power of poo
Northumbrian Water is the only wastewater company in the UK to use 100% of its sewage sludge (the left over material at the end of the wastewater treatment process) and convert it into gas and electricity – so literally...
De-watering activated sludge
David Helicon, Principal Waste Water Scientist at South West Water, has developed an industry leading solution to de-watering activated sludge. The result is a more desirable agricultural fertiliser and improved efficiency at the treatment works.
Activated sludge is a real...
Sludge management – biosolids’ recycling
Dr David Tompkins, Head of Knowledge Exchange & Innovation at Aqua Enviro. Aqua Enviro is the UK consultancy within SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions.
Biosolids (or treated sewage sludges) typically have two markets – land application and incineration. Application to...
Management of Biosolids Recycling
Scottish Water produces sewage sludge (Biosolids) as a natural by-product of the biological waste water treatment process. This sludge is then further treated to produce a biosolids product using various complex treatments such as thickening, dewatering, digestion, drying and...
How do you treat sludge properly?…talk to Eliquo Hydrok
The question of sludge treatment is of critical importance in modern wastewater treatment. On the one hand, disposal is very expensive. On the other hand, sewage sludge is a viable source of energy and nutrients. How energy-efficient or even...
The C-tech Process – Phosphorus removal made simple
By Ben Hazard Process Engineer
What’s the Problem?
Biological phosphorus removal is the phrase on everyone’s lips in the UK water industry at the moment, and achieving Bio-P removal with a low site footprint is the goal. Phosphorus and other nutrients that...
S:MAX solutions bring many benefits
As water companies face more demands than ever before, the production of high-quality bioresources will play a huge role in managing these challenges.
Population growth, climate change and the pressure to remain affordable are three of the largest pressures that...
Management of Biosolids Recycling
Scottish Water produces sewage sludge (Biosolids) as a natural by-product of the biological waste water treatment process. This sludge is then further treated to produce a biosolids product using various complex treatments such as thickening, dewatering, digestion, drying and...
Severn Trent uses anaerobic digestion to generate more green power than ever before
Severn Trent is now generating 38% of the energy it uses from a number of different renewable sources and the company is continuing to invest in new technology to increase that further in the future.
In recent years the company...
Semi-organic sludges in the waste water treatment and biogas industries
Pumping of semi-organic sludges in the waste water treatment and biogas industries has long been the preserve of the progressive cavity pump (PCP), and with good reason.
They are able to deal with variable and high viscosities, ranging from thin,...
Technology for high quality sludge is more important than ever
Studies that have highlighted the benefits from developing markets for sludge have undoubtedly been the driving force behind Ofwat’s promise to open up the Bioresources market by 2020. The fact that it has now been proven that sludge is...
AD operators see performance benefits with micronutrient technology
As the Government pushes for more take up of Anaerobic Digesters to help achieve its 2020 carbon reduction targets, AD and biogas plant operators can ensure their own systems perform to maximum capacity with the help of OMEX.
Licensed operators...
From sludge to bio-resources
Ester Rus is sludge and energy manager for Thames Water’s wastewater innovation. Here, she discusses the importance of renewable energy from sludge, and how the company’s innovation teams are maximising its generation
Introduction to
Bio-resources:
In recent years, the concept of sludge...
