Innovative scalable MBBR system 

DAS Envi­ron­men­tal Expert GmbH from Dres­den presents a scal­able MBBR sys­tem for the food indus­try at Anu­ga FoodTec. In Cologne, the envi­ron­men­tal tech­nol­o­gy experts will present cus­tomized solu­tions for waste­water treat­ment in the food and bev­er­age indus­try from April 26 to 29, 2022 in hall 10.1 at booth E091. 

The medi­um-sized com­pa­ny, which spe­cial­izes in plants for keep­ing air and water clean, has already imple­ment­ed quite a few waste­water treat­ment plants for the food indus­try world­wide. Waste­water treat­ment plants from Dres­den have been suc­cess­ful­ly in oper­a­tion for years at man­u­fac­tur­ers of soft drinks, dairies, or com­pa­nies from the pota­to pro­cess­ing sector. 

Effective wastewater treatment for the food and beverage industry 

At this year’s lead­ing glob­al trade fair for the inter­na­tion­al food and bev­er­age indus­try, the com­pa­ny is focus­ing on the MBBR process for bio­log­i­cal waste­water treat­ment. “The Mov­ing Bed Biofilm Reac­tor uses microor­gan­isms grow­ing as a biofilm on a car­ri­er mate­r­i­al for water treat­ment. They take over the degra­da­tion of both organ­ic waste­water ingre­di­ents and nitro­gen com­pounds. For this pur­pose, they are cul­ti­vat­ed specif­i­cal­ly on the car­ri­er mate­r­i­al after an inten­sive analy­sis of the indi­vid­ual require­ments. The spe­cial pack­ing pro­vides the microor­gan­isms with a par­tic­u­lar­ly large sur­face area for growth,” says Dr. Ani­ta Haupt, head of process engi­neer­ing for water treat­ment, explain­ing the process. Aer­a­tion of the reac­tor ensures that the liq­uid is con­stant­ly mixed, thus also ensur­ing opti­mum con­tact of the waste­water ingre­di­ents with microor­gan­isms and air bub­bles. If nec­es­sary, the flu­idized bed process can also be used with­out aer­a­tion; in this case, mix­ing is car­ried out by means of mix­ing noz­zles or agitators.

Modular MBBR reactors in four standard sizes 

The com­pa­ny uses a car­ri­er mate­r­i­al that is char­ac­ter­ized by a very high spe­cif­ic sur­face area, which enables a com­pact plant design. In the future, the tech­nol­o­gy leader will offer its mod­u­lar reac­tors in four stan­dard prod­uct sizes with the prod­uct group name “SALVINIA”: SALVINIA 70, SALVINIA 170, SALVINIA 470 and SALVINIA 1060 each dif­fer in size. “The num­bers stand for the reac­tor vol­ume in cubic meters and allow dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion accord­ing to waste­water vol­umes and the degree of con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the waste­water — for effec­tive and effi­cient waste­water treat­ment entire­ly accord­ing to our cus­tomers’ needs,” Dr. Ani­ta Haupt con­tin­ues. She adds, “Our solu­tion saves time and mon­ey because it is quick­ly avail­able thanks to its stan­dard­ized mod­u­lar­i­ty — the dura­tion from plan­ning to com­mis­sion­ing is short.” In addi­tion to its effec­tive­ness, the process has oth­er advan­tages: it is uncom­pli­cat­ed and eco­nom­i­cal to oper­ate, its robust reac­tors func­tion well even under chal­leng­ing oper­at­ing con­di­tions, and the small amount of solids to be dis­posed of elim­i­nates the need to recy­cle bio­mass into the process — unlike con­ven­tion­al acti­vat­ed sludge process­es with sim­i­lar capacity. 

Broad portfolio for individual wastewater treatment 

Because waste­water treat­ment require­ments are unique to each project, the port­fo­lio includes stan­dard­ized and cus­tomized MBBR plants as well as a wide range of oth­er process­es and cus­tomized solu­tions. As a full-ser­vice provider, the Dres­den-based envi­ron­men­tal experts sup­port indus­tri­al com­pa­nies world­wide in opti­miz­ing their waste­water treat­ment — regard­less of whether a sin­gle bio­log­i­cal treat­ment stage for waste­water is to be installed, a waste­water treat­ment plant is to be built or a fac­to­ry is to be com­plete­ly equipped with waste­water technology.