The stormwater treatment plant at the pharmaceutical company site

Type

Wastewater treatment

Task

To modernize the surface wastewater (Stormwater) treatment plant

Water source

Surface water (Stormwater)

About the project

The pharmaceutical company has the industrial site with a surface
wastewater catchment area of 27,1 ha. Collected surface wastewater is
generated by precipitation during the warm season and the snowmelt period.
The existing storage tank there modernized into a mechanical treatment
plant. The mechanical gratings and separating and dehydrating equipment
were installed. There was the process equipment modernized in the pumping
and filtering station.
The wastewater treatment plant consists of mechanical pre-treatment,
equalizer tank, and the wastewater treatment plant.

Plant performance by treatment stages

Mechanical pretreatment m3

/h 750-1550

Flotation m3

/h 2 x 60 = 120

Filtration m3

/h 4 x 25 = 100

Inlet water parameters

Surface wastewater

Parameter Unit Value
Suspended Solids mg/l 24,7
BOD5 mg/l 2,18
Oil products mgO2/l 0,16
Ammonium mg/l 1,17
Iron mg/l 1,16
Copper mg/l 0,10
Zinc mg/l 0,02
Chlorides mg/l 14,9
Nitrite mg/l 0,11
Nitrate mg/l 10,84

Treated water parameters

Parameter Unit Value
Suspended Solids mg/l 5
pH 7-8
BOD5 mgO2/l 2,0
Oil products mg/l 0,05
Ammonium mg/l 0,5
Iron mg/l 0,1
Copper mg/l 0,06
Zinc mg/l 0,01
Chlorides mg/l 25,3
Nitrite mg/l 0,01
Nitrate mg/l 11
Coliphages <10
Coliform bacteria (in 100ml) <500

Summarize

In this project after data evaluation was decided to install a rectangular dissolved air flotation unit (DAF). It was the first project where rectangular DAF was installed. The project implementation was smooth and successful.

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