Ensure compliance with technical standards for wastewater quality and disposal.
Being responsible for the operation of a wastewater or drinking water treatment plant has great challenges.
On the one hand, to ensure high availability of water reliably and at affordable costs. As well as ensuring compliance with standards and guaranteeing that its operations are sustainable. In achieving sustainable development.
The key lies in using more efficient and effective methods of operation. This enables optimization of the energy supply, automation of treatment processes and on-line monitoring of critical variables. The final effect is to have autonomous plants with low use of personnel for their operation. For all these reasons, the best option is the digitization of wastewater treatment plant processes.
Advantages to be gained by digitizing a treatment plant
Statistical Control and Process Monitoring
The main concern in the operation of a wastewater treatment plant is whether it is actually fulfilling its purpose. Therefore, a monitoring and control system ensures its correct operation.
Cost reduction and control
Increasing the control of quality parameters and process control reduces waste, optimizes maintenance, reduces energy consumption, manages risks and in general optimizes the operation of a wastewater treatment plant.
Benefits of digitizing the processes of a WWTP.
Centralize data collection from a wastewater treatment plant. It allows to build an asset of high benefit for the plant’s benefit for the; such as high availability and energy efficiency.
Improve regulatory compliance
Ensuring regulatory compliance is achieved by controlling all process variables and automating the necessary adjustments.
Manage risk
By properly assessing risks, mitigation actions can be established in advance and triggered automatically.
Process innovation
Streamline process innovation and batch production
Deliver Agility
By achieving the digitization of troubleshooting processes, the availability of wastewater treatment plants increases.
Monitoring and Optimization
Monitor and optimize yields, control energy use and emissions, ensuring compliance with quality and operating efficiencies
Control costs
Integrating information with ERP systems allows a complete view of the operation.
Increase the availability of wastewater treatment plants
Based on the data, faults can be predicted and maintenance can be properly scheduled. Learn more about the technical processes of water treatment! Therefore, a better understanding of how a water treatment system works offers peace of mind for the environment.
A wastewater treatment plant is a plant that, thanks to different physical, chemical and biological processes, eliminates pollutants present in water after human use. Process automation
Processes
Wastewater treatment stages
The success of proper wastewater treatment lies in carrying out the right tasks at the right time.
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Primary Treatment
Primary treatment is to reduce oil, grease, sand and coarse solids.
Includes:
- Solids removal, screening or roughing
- Sand and gravel filtration
- Research and maceration
- Research projects
- Sedimentation
Secondary Treatment
Designed to substantially degrade the biological content of wastewater.
- Activated sludge or activated sludge
- Filter beds (oxidation beds)
- Rotary plates and spirals
- Moving bed biological reactor
- Biological aerated filters
- Biological membrane reactors
- Sedimentation
Tertiary Treatment
Final stage to increase the quality of the effluent before it is discharged to the receiving environment.
- Filtration
- Lagunaje
- Artificial wetlands
- Nutrient removal
- Disinfection
New developments in sewage treatment
In recent years, more economical and more effective techniques have been developed, these are some of them:
