Veolia Water Applied sciences UK (VWT UK) has been specified to produce its water remedy chemical answer, Hydrex 6861, to egg product provider D Clever, primarily based in Malpas, Cheshire. This has allowed the corporate to scale back the quantity of sludge by-product shaped throughout its manufacturing processes – and the prices to take away it from website. It has additionally improved its water remedy effectivity, leading to an estimated and vital £50k of annual financial savings.
D Clever is a household run enterprise that specialises within the manufacturing of pasteurised egg merchandise for the meals trade. Consequently, its wastewater is contaminated by substances together with egg proteins and cleansing chemical substances. Beforehand, a mixture of PAC (Polyaluminium Chloride) and sodium hydroxide was used to coagulate the wastewater previous to being handed by a DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation) unit.
Nevertheless, this answer was producing a excessive quantity of sludge, inflicting the DAF unit to grow to be overloaded with suspended solids. Consequently, it was solely in a position to deal with a restricted quantity of wastewater per day, whereas the remaining 70m3 needed to be faraway from website by a neighborhood farmer, for land spreading. Eradicating this amount would require 5 to 6 journeys to website day-after-day at a price of £65 per load. Over the course of a yr, this amounted to effectively over £100k in elimination prices to D Clever.
Another answer was required. James Clever, [Operations Manager] at D Clever commented: “I began searching for a brand new water remedy provider and Veolia Water Applied sciences UK appeared to have variety of actually sturdy opinions that assured me the corporate supplied a dependable service. I additionally preferred the look of VWT’s Hydrex 6861 natural coagulant that will allow us to chop out chlorine from our water remedy course of.”
Hydrex 6861 is a coagulant derived utterly from renewable sources and is an efficient alternative for conventional inorganic options, comparable to ferric sulphate. Straightforward to make use of, Hydrex 6861 doesn’t require caustic soda for pH correction. Crucially, it additionally affords value financial savings as it could cut back sludge manufacturing by roughly 30% compared with metallic salts coagulants, thereby lowering sludge disposal and dewatering prices.
After being contacted by James, Brian Jones, Enterprise Improvement Supervisor for VWT UK visited the D Clever website. Collectively they mentioned the usage of Hydrex 6861 and changing the usage of PAC and sodium hydroxide within the system with out including to the extent of sludge formation. This may allow the DAF unit to double its processing capability in order that it treats 4m3 per hour for ten hours a day – saving D Clever £50 okay per yr. Consequently, VWT UK was awarded the contract to produce effluent remedy chemical substances for the following 12 months.
“Up to now, all the things goes rather well,” commented James. “Brian has been in a position to cross on his experience, coaching our group to make use of the chemical substances successfully and maximise the efficiency of the DAF unit. If we ever have an issue, we all know we will contact Brian, and he’ll reply rapidly.
“We have now just lately been planning to maneuver D Clever to a bigger website that can produce extra effluent. Initially, we believed we would want to improve our wastewater remedy system consequently. Nevertheless, now that we’re utilizing Hydrex, it’s possible we can hold the identical system. I’m excited to see the long-term outcomes and would positively suggest Veolia Water Applied sciences UK to others.”
To search out out extra details about VWT UK’s chemical wastewater remedy providing, go to: www.veoliawatertechnologies.co.uk/companies/water-treatment-chemicals
