| THREE QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT |
What problems do you have that are associated with your
wastewater streams and what is this costing you? |
| Wastewater challenges background |
- Food processors typically discharge wastewater to a municipality for treatment
- The city monitors for concentration of contaminants such as Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Oil & Grease (O&G), and pH
- They often levy excessive surcharges based upon the concentrations of these levels
- In extreme cases fines can be levied for not hitting permit levels
- Many times the surcharges exceed $100K
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Pretreatment at many facilities is inadequate to effectively remove soluble BOD and frequently consists of only flow equalization and pH neutralization |
Oftentimes plants lack the retention time necessary to reduce contaminants biologically |
The amount of dissolved oxygen required to run traditional wastewater treatments plants is costly
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The amount of capital required to upgrade the plant, keep up with increased production, or complete a plant expansion is considerable |
This leads to increased operational
cost, surcharges, energy
consumption and even
potential fines and
bad publicity |
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