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Typical Plant Layout for the Syngineering MBR and MBBR Systems

admin — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 08:25:22 +0000

Syngineering have been hard at work developing a range of containerised Membrane Bio Reactors (MBR) and Moving Bed Bio Reactor (MBBR) systems suitable for treating a wide range of waste water that includes sewage treatment, land fill leachate, effluent treatment and many more. These systems are fully containerised and range in size from 10KL/day through to many mega litres per day. The advantage of the Syngineering systems are that they come standard with Reverse Osmosis or RO filtration meaning that they will produce permeate that complies with Australian and New Zealand drinking water guidelines.

Typical MBR plant design from Syngineering

Typical MBR and MBBR Waste Water treatment plant layout by Syngineering

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Effluent Treatment by Syngineering

admin — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:59:43 +0000

Syngineering Water, Australian distributors of VSEP water treatment systems have been applying the VSEP to many different ways to improve waste water treatment. This application is treating effluent from an abattoir and producing water that complies to the Australian Drinking water guidelines

I know this is not the best topic and people do not want to talk about effluent, but unless innovative practical engineers and scientists like the team at Syngineering continue to develop ways to treat effluent, waste water and leachate then we will destroy ourselves.

Syngineering have been developing new and innovative methods of treating effluent and waste water by combining VSEP and reverse osmosis.

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Containerised Water Treatment Unit

admin — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:39:51 +0000

Published on Sep 4, 2016

Syngineering have been developing a new range of containerised VSEP units that fit inside a 40 foot shipping container. The systems also include a reverse osmosis option that when combined with the VSEP system, will produce water that complies with the Australian and New Zealand drinking water standards. These containerised systems are ideal for a wide range of applications including landfill leachate, effluent treatment, coal seam gas, drilling mud treatment and many more.

Leachate Samples using VSEP system combined with Reverse Osmosis

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VSEP Solves Landfill Leachate in Columbia

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 11:57:18 +0000

The City of Buga in Colombia has a small landfill that serves the entire city. There was only a very small space left for putting trash and the projection was that it would run out of space in about 4 months. The Presidente Landfill asked authorities to open a new area on its property for trash disposal. The regulators told them that in order to give them a permit, they must install equipment to treat the landfill leachate. In addition, the existing storage ponds for leachate were nearly at capacity. Production of more Leachate would have required construction of more storage ponds.

A gas to energy project is also planned for this site. The first phase would be gas extraction with flares to burn the gas. The next phase would be installation of electrical gas-fired generators to make electricity. Prior to getting permitting for this project, leachate treatment was also required. While the trash in the landfill needs to be moist so that bacteria can convert organics to methane, there cannot be too much liquid (leachate) in the trash or the rate of gas extraction would be impaired.

Process Description

A full –scale VSEP system was installed at this site using three of the large 84” VSEP modules. Since the filtrate would be used for land irrigation, only a single pass with RO was required. Other VSEP installations would also include a second stage RO spiral polishing system to make water that would meet surface water discharge requirements. But in this case, Ammonia, COD, and other contaminants were sufficiently removed with just one pass through the VSEP RO system.

For more information click Syngineering – Buga Columbia Landfill Leachate

VSEP Case Study – El Bordo Poniente, Mexico City

Nathan Dwyer — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 03:17:59 +0000

Once Mexico City’s only solid waste landfill, it is now closed to allow landfills to be opened further away from the residents of the city. However, the landfill was used to support a 9 million person population and so is still producing leachate wastewater and will continue to do so for some time.

A VSEP system has been installed at the landfill, which utilises reverse osmosis (RO) through a vibrating membrane. The VSEP installed is automated with a 0.91m VSEP module and has roughly 42 square metres of membrane area. The leachate is pumped from the leachate storage pond to a tank before it passes through the VSEP system. This system recovers 80% of the waste water leachate.

Due to the high vibrations, there is limited fouling on the membrane, which allows for high flow rates even when dealing with concentrated wastewater. VSEP is capable of working with raw wastewater with no pre-treatment and has a very small environment footprint and low operating cost.

After the VSEP stage the filtered water goes through a standard spiral RO membrane system to reduce water contaminant levels below the discharge requirement. This double filtration process is able to output water that is far cleaner than any other treatment method currently available. The rejected concentrate can then be disposed of appropriately

The two stage process can reduce chemical oxygen demand from 10,000 mg/L to 17 mg/L and the total dissolved solids (TDS) in the leachate from 26,000 mg/L to 55 mg/L.

Leachate from landfills may be pumped into sewage systems but some waste may contain recalcitrant organics (pesticides). It can also be reinjected into the landfill, but none of those methods are as capable as RO at treating water and no RO systems are as effective as a VSEP system.

The images above have been copied from the VSEP case study for El Bordo Poniente

VSEP Contract

Nathan Dwyer — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:39:39 +0000

Here at Syngineering we have been granted a new contract working with American water treatment giants New Logic Research Inc. as the national distributor in Australia for their new product VSEP (Vibratory Shear Enhanced Process). VSEP is the world’s first vibrating membrane separation system. Its done by applying vibratory shear waves directly at the membrane surface. VSEP is able to separate difficult feed streams including high levels of suspended and dissolved solids, oils, organics and other problematic constituents. The process is inexpensive and capable of:

Processing thousands of litres per minute
Has the ability to stay cleaner for longer
Can process constituents with a large solid percentage (~70%)
Has a high efficiency (~99%)
Simple design (two main parts), and
Compact in size.

To download a copy of our VSEP pamphlet click here