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Automotive Parts Manufacturer

An automotive parts manufacturer was in need of a system to process oily waste water. An ultrafiltration (UF) system was selected based upon its ability to consistently meet the discharge requirements without chemicals and limited operator involvement. This ultrafiltration (UF) system removes oil and reduces zinc in compliance with discharge requirements.

Ultrafiltration excels at the clarification of solutions containing suspended solids, bacteria, and high concentrations of macromolecules, including oil this making this an excellent solution to this problem.

Automotive Parts Manufacturer Contaminants Removed

• Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)
• Oil and Grease (O&G)
• Suspended solids
• Zinc
• Lead

Dynatec Systems industry-leading tubular ultrafiltration (UF) system is used to treat a broad range of industrial wastewater by separating insoluble components from waste streams. As a cost effective and simple solution for separating insoluble components and colloidal contaminants from a waste stream, wastewater UF offers significant advantages over conventional separation. It is a useful process that does not require chemicals or much space to separate insoluble contaminants.

UF is a pressure-driven process that removes the following from wastewater and other solutions:

• Emulsified oils
• Metal hydroxides
• Colloids
• Emulsions
• Dispersed material
• Suspended solids
• Other large molecular-weight materials

Ultrafiltration systems are also capable of concentrating:

• Bacteria
• Some proteins
• Some dyes
• Colloidal or emulsified components

Ultrafiltration systems excels at the clarification of solutions containing:

• Suspended solids
• Bacteria
• High concentrations of macromolecules including:
  • Oil and water
  • Fruit juice
  • Milk
  • Whey
  • Electro-coat paints
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Poly-vinyl alcohol and indigo
  • Potable water
  • Tertiary wastewater

Ultrafiltration offers the following advantages over conventional separation:

• No chemical required
• Very little labor required
• Simple mechanical process
• Less sludge
• Ability to concentrate the retentate for beneficial use
• Less space required
• Overall lower operating costs

Tubular Configuration:

• Higher permeate rate
• Lower rates of fouling
• Higher concentration of retentate
• Easier to clean
• Longer membrane life
• Low operating cost

For more information on ultrafiltration for the removal of oils and grease, please contact us today.

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/technologies/membrane-technologies/ultrafiltration-systems/

Landfill Leachate treatment system

Landfill leachate treatment system for a hazardous waste landfill incorporates heavy metals pretreatment followed by a tubular MBR system. 

The MBR reduces:

• ammonia
• phenol
• Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB)
• chemical oxygen demand (COD)
  

  

• volatiles and semi-volatiles
• and other contaminants adequately for discharge  

The system reduces PFAS 30-60% and carbon is utilized to reduce PFAS to low ppt concentrations.

Landfill leachate treatment systems with Membrane Bioreactors (MBR)s have developed many unique process improvements for industrial wastewater applications. Dynatec successfully uses Ultrafiltration (UF), MBR and Reverse Osmosis (RO) for landfill leachate applications.

Landfill leachate treatment system requirements

Treatment can vary, depending on the discharge requirements, and the contaminants present

Landfill leachate is characterized by:

• High Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
• Heavy metals
• High BOD
• Color
• High COD
• High ammonia

Landfill leachate treatment systems options

The MBR option: an aerated biological mixed liquor process operating at very high solids concentrations. 

The advantages are:

• Long sludge age produces a well acclimated biomass. High concentration (typically 12,000 to 20,000 mg/l) provides very high rates of reaction
• Excellent nitrification and de-nitrification
• Smaller footprint then conventional aerated systems
• High-quality effluent as a result of using membranes for final clarification
• Lower sludge production than conventional systems

Typical MBR results in landfills: 

The system produces bio-sludge, which can either be dewatered for disposal, or disposed of as a liquid sludge.

Alternative landfill leachate treatment options: 

• Chemical precipitation of metals before MBR treatment
• RO after MBR treatment removes organic and inorganic contaminants, and color
• UF followed by RO

The two effluent streams from a RO system are:

• Permeate
• Concentrate (or reject)

This can be re-injected into the landfill.  Its long-term effects on leachate concentrations should be considered.

Conclusion

The MBR process provides the highest possible levels of organic removal with essentially zero suspended solids in the effluent. This is the ideal feed system for RO treatment.

RO permeate can be used for other non-potable purposes:

• Irrigation
• Truck washing
• Dust control

Dynatec membrane treatment systems have successfully provided outstanding performance in many landfill leachate applications. Considerations for this technology include:

• Membrane treatment offers reliable, consistent landfill leachate 
• Systems are highly cost effective, and require low levels of operator interface
• The best membrane system configuration for each application should be individually evaluated
• Membrane treatment is broadly applied in the US and abroad

Contact Dynatec Systems today to discuss your landfill leachate treatment solution.

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/industries/landfill-leachate-treatment/

Upgrades using existing assets

Upgrades using existing assets

When discharge regulations tighten, the need for water reuse grows, or wastewater volumes increase, existing Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) systems often become inadequate.  In order to provide a solution with low capital cost in part by reusing existing assets, existing SBR plants can be converted to Membrane Bioreactors (MBR).  This can usually be done by adding an out-of-basin tubular ultrafilter (UF) to the process. Using a Dynatec out-of-basin UF as part of an SBR to MBR conversion is the most cost-effective and easy to implement way to:

• Improve biological system performance
• Expand capacity
• Handle increase in strength of waste
• Mitigate upsets
• Reduce operator time
• Achieve consistent performance

Dynatec has used existing assets from SBR systems to convert to an MBR at many site including at landfills, food and beverage plants, chemical manufacturing, and automotive manufacturing facilities.

The industrial MBR is the ideal bioreactor configuration for treatment of organic or inorganic contaminants present in industrial wastewaters. MBR’s operate at a higher efficiency while achieving consistent design performance objectives. This makes MBR a more cost effective method of industrial wastewater treatment when performance and tank requirements are considered.

Industrial Membrane Bioreactors Benefits:

• Higher flux
• Lower costs
• Better membranes
• Improved permeate quality
• Less operator attention and maintenance

Applications

Dynatec’s industrial MBR is the ideal biological system for industrial wastewater treatment. It is designed to handle high strength wastewater containing high concentrations of:

• Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)
• Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
• Oil & Grease (FOG)
• Volatiles
• Metals
• Ammonia
• Nitrate
• Inorganic

The performance is not affected by changes in sludge settleability like the conventional systems, making it the wise choice for industrial wastewater treatment systems that have difficult-to-treat waste streams. Dynatec’s MBRs can effectively handle industrial wastewater streams that would otherwise be toxic or inhibitory to other biological treatment systems.

Backed by decades of experience with MBRs, Dynatec has developed many unique process solutions necessary for industrial wastewater treatment applications such as:

• Landfill leachate
• Hazardous landfill leachate with metals removal
• Automotive manufacturing wastewater
• Food manufacturing wastewater
• Titanium processing wastewater

 Contact Dynatec Systems today to discuss your wastewater solution.

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/technologies/membrane-bioreactors-and-reuse/mbr-conversion-r…pgrade-solutions/

Paint Manufacturer Reuses Latex

A paint manufacturer engaged Dynatec to provide a system to separate latex from wastewater and reuse it in the production of paint

The Problem

The company was using a chemically assisted, rotary drum vacuum pre-coat filter that was expensive to operate and created a lot of sludge which was expensive to dispose.

The Solution

The white paint wastewater was segregated from the colors, and processed separately. The concentrate of white latex solids were used in the manufacture of new white paint.

The paint solids from the colored paints can be concentrated to as high as 20% (typical paint contains between 45% and 55% solids) using wide channel ultrafiltration. The paint solids are concentrated and reused to make a grey paint. The water can be discharged to sewer, since it contains no solids, or it can be reused as wash water.

Special circulation pumps are also used to handle the high solids loadings.

Return on investment

The return on investment was high. The latex from the white paint wastewater is reused in the production process for manufacture of new paint. The paint solids from the colored paint wastewater is recovered as a saleable low quality paint product. The cost for disposal of the solids removed by the old chemical treatment system has been reduced by 90%. The wastewater from both processes is discharged to sewer.

Significant Savings:

 No sludge

 Beneficial use for latex

 Water quality for discharge is better

 Much less operator time

 No chemicals

Ultrafiltration excels at the clarification of solutions containing:

 Suspended solids

 Bacteria

 High concentrations of macromolecules including:

 Oil and water

 Fruit juice

 Milk

 Latex

 Whey

 Electro-coat paints

 Pharmaceuticals

 Poly-vinyl alcohol

 Potable water

 Tertiary wastewater

 Some proteins

 Some dyes

 Oils

 Colloidal or emulsified components

Contact Dynatec Systems today to discuss your wastewater solution!

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/technologies/membrane-technologies/ultrafiltration-systems/

Reuse Water in Juice Plant

Reuse water ability in a new treatment system was needed in a juice processing company for other plant processes. The high strength wastewater, with a COD of 16,000mg/L, needed to meet stringent effluent criteria to make this possible.

Reuse water in juice plant

The solution, provided by Dynatec, includes a membrane bioreactor (MBR) followed by a double pass reverse osmosis (RO) system. The permeate meets all limits for BOD, COD, metals, TSS, and TDS.

Reuse water systems have been provided by Dynatec Systems to many industries. The ability to recover and reuse water has many benefits.

• Saving on water costs
• Saving on wastewater disposal charges
• Decreased environmental impact
• Protection from regulatory changes
• Decrease dependence on water provider/source
• Ability to expand without affecting water demand
• Overcome water scarcity issues
• Consistently high-quality for water reuse

Ultrafiltration (UF), Membrane Bioreactor (MBR), Nanofiltration (NF) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) are employed by Dynatec for water reuse projects. Water recovery and water reuse has been successfully implemented with industrial and sanitary wastewater streams for:

• Cooling tower make up
• Boiler feed
• Irrigation
• Toilet flushing
• Direct potable reuse
• Cleaning/wash applications
• Rinse processes
• Painting processes
• Other plant processes

Reuse water systems provided by Dynatec Systems: 

• Resorts, hotels, and retirement homes
• Golf courses
• Automotive companies
• Food and beverage companies
• Apartment buildings
• Landfills
• Mines
• Metal finishing plants
• Aerospace companies

For more information, please contact us today.

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/technologies/recovery-and-reuse/

Sanitary Wastewater Expansion

Sanitary wastewater expansion of a previously supplied MBR by Dynatec Systems for a mall was recently completed. The original system treated the sanitary wastewater generated at the mall and wastewater from several restaurants on the property. Recent changes at the mall, including the addition of residential units, resulted in greater wastewater volumes. The expansion was relatively fast and easy due to the modular nature of Dynatec’s UF skids. The permeate meets all requirements for direct discharge to the environment and the compact design fits the limited space available at the mall.

Sanitary wastewater from private communities, industrial and academic campuses, resorts, and various other facilities can be treated to meet discharge permit limits or to meet reuse standards. Dynatec provides systems that accomplish this in a small space and with low operating costs.

Membrane bioreactor (MBR) solutions provided

• Plant expansion
• Improved effluent quality
• Purification for direct discharge
• Existing plant upgrades
• Sequencing batch reactor (SBR) to MBR conversions
• Wastewater reuse for:
  • Cooling tower
  • Boiler
  • Toilet flushing
  • Irrigation applications
• Recovery and reuse of wastewater for:
  • Apartment buildings
  • Industrial campuses
  • Academic campuses
  • Hotels and resorts
  • Golf courses
• Compact wastewater treatment systems
• Containerized/mobile sanitary treatment systems
• Water mining systems

Significant Benefits

• Lower energy cost allows operation in larger plants
• Robust tubular membranes reduce replacement cost
• High mixed liquor concentration reduces tankage required and higher treated water quality
• Small system footprint
• Easily expandable
• Safe automatic clean-in-place system protects operators
• Predictable, consistently high performance
• Remote monitoring – compatible with cell phone or iPad

Contaminants removed from sanitary wastewater

• Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)
• Oils and Grease (O&G)
• Total Suspended Solids (TSS)
• Ammonia
• Total N
• Fecal Coliforms

For more information on sanitary wastewater expansion, please contact Dynatec to discuss.

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/industries/sanitary-wastewater/

Anaerobic digester and aerobic MBR followed by RO for whiskey manufacturer

Anaerobic digester and aerobic MBR followed by RO provided by Dynatec Systems.  A whiskey manufacturer needed a wastewater treatment system to reduce very high organic content BOD and COD.  As well as, solids content TSS of the wastewater stillage to achieve the demanding final treated water discharge standards.  A membrane filter is used for pretreatment prior to the anaerobic system.  The tubular membrane filter employed with the biological system is not dependent on the settling characteristics and produces very high-quality effluent.

The equipment was containerized to make the implementation as easy as possible.

Membrane bioreactors offer a unique and effective solution for the treatment and reuse of industrial wastewater in industries such as landfills, automotive, aerostructures, distilleries and dairies. Our industry-leading designs and innovation also deliver superior performance for sanitary wastewater and biological nutrient removal applications.

The MBR configuration has proven to be optimal for treatment of many industrial wastewaters when treatment efficiency is an important consideration.

The MBR is the ideal bioreactor configuration for treatment of organic or inorganic contaminants present in industrial wastewaters. MBRs operate at a higher efficiency while achieving consistent design performance objectives. This makes MBR a more cost effective method of treatment when performance and tank requirements are considered.

Bioreactor systems such as the conventional activated sludge system, sequencing batch reactor system and trickling filters are typically designed for operation at a lower volumetric removal rate, requiring larger tanks and more space. These conventional systems often experience upsets that inhibit settling and therefore require much more operator attention than a membrane bioreactor.

The MBR has proven to be optimal for treatment of many industrial wastewaters because it is less susceptible to upsets. The MBR’s performance is not affected by changes in sludge settleability like the conventional systems, making MBR a wise choice for industrial systems that have more difficult to treat waste streams. Dynatec has over 42 years experience in dealing with difficult to treat industrial wastewaters using membrane filtration.

For more information on anaerobic digester and aerobic membrane bioreactor followed by reverse osmosis, please contact us today.

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/technologies/membrane-bioreactors-and-reuse/industrial-membrane-bioreactors/

Ultrafiltration for egg processing

Ultrafiltration for egg processing

High protein content from the egg causes the BOD of wastewater from an egg processing plant to be high. The conventional approach is to treat the wastewater biologically, either aerobically or anaerobically. Both systems are expensive both to purchase and operate.

Solution

Tubular Ultrafiltration alone will reduce the BOD of the wastewater from an egg processing plant 94% on average. This simple filtration process mechanically separates the egg from the water and produces a concentrate of egg and water that can be processed by a renderer inexpensively.

97% of the filtered water purified by the Ultrafilter can be discharged to sewer.

Benefits

• Lower capital cost compared to the alternatives
• Much lower operating costs compared to the alternatives
• Simple mechanical system
• Less space required
• Permeate acceptable for Municipal sewer discharge
• Low cost for disposal of residual egg concentrate

Contact Dynatec Systems today to discuss your wastewater solution

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/industries/food-and-beverage/egg-processing

Dynatec Systems industry-leading tubular ultrafiltration (UF) system is used to treat a broad range of industrial wastewater by separating insoluble components from waste streams. As a cost effective and simple solution for separating insoluble components and colloidal contaminants from a waste stream, wastewater UF offers significant advantages over conventional separation. It is a useful process that does not require chemicals or much space to separate insoluble contaminants.

UF is a pressure-driven process that removes the following from wastewater and other solutions:

• Emulsified oils
• Metal hydroxides
• Colloids
• Emulsions
• Dispersed material
• Suspended solids
• Other large molecular-weight materials

Ultrafiltration systems are also capable of concentrating:

• Bacteria
• Some proteins
• Some dyes
• Colloidal or emulsified components

Ultrafiltration systems excels at the clarification of solutions containing:

• Suspended solids
• Bacteria
• High concentrations of macromolecules including:
  • Oil and water
  • Fruit juice
  • Milk
  • Whey
  • Electro-coat paints
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Poly-vinyl alcohol and indigo
  • Potable water
  • Tertiary wastewater

Ultrafiltration offers the following advantages over conventional separation:

• No chemical required
• Very little labor required
• Simple mechanical process
• Less sludge
• Ability to concentrate the retentate for beneficial use
• Less space required
• Overall lower operating costs

Tubular Configuration:

• Higher permeate rate
• Lower rates of fouling
• Higher concentration of retentate
• Easier to clean
• Longer membrane life
• Low operating cost

For more information on using ultrafilter (UF) for your application, please contact us today.

MBR Leachate Treatment System

Prior to employing the Dynatec MBR leachate treatment system, the landfill was hauling all of their leachate. In 2010, the facility spent over $4,500,000 hauling 10,350 truckloads of raw leachate.

The landfill leachate was pumped from four different pump stations each with a different landfill contributory area. Analysis of the historical data showed the size of the contributory area and age of the landfill area played significant roles in flow and leachate quality. A few historical trends were identified and used to predict flows in a future landfill development scenario.

The MBR leachate treatment system was designed for the peak nitrification requirements of the influent. A large SRT (solids retention time) was selected to target the slowly biodegradable COD found in leachate due to long chain organic molecules that are more difficult to remove.

The system was designed with flexibility in mind. The MLSS can be increased to 20,000 mg/L in the system without affecting the oxygen transfer efficiency thanks to the jet aeration system selected, which enables the long SRT.

Dynatec’s industrial MBR is the ideal bioreactor configuration for treatment of organic or inorganic contaminants present in industrial wastewaters. MBR’s operate at a higher efficiency while achieving consistent design performance objectives. This makes MBR a more cost effective method of industrial wastewater treatment when performance and tank requirements are considered.

Industrial Membrane Bioreactors Benefits:

• Higher flux
• Lower costs
• Better membranes
• Improved permeate quality
• Less operator attention and maintenance

Contact Dynatec Systems today to discuss your landfill leachate treatment system.

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/industries/landfill-leachate-treatment/

A Clear Look at Reuse Systems

A Clear Look at Reuse Systems

Dynatec’s Tom Doherty had a great article published in the November 2021 issue of Water Environment & Technology (WE&T) Operations & Engineering magazine. 

Dynatec has completed over a hundred wastewater purification and reuse systems for industry and for sanitary waste. To begin, there needs to be a detailed characterization of the wastewater along with a detailed characterization of the requirements for reuse. The characterization of the wastewater and requirements for reuse will determine the treatment/purification requirements and thereby define the CAPEX and OPEX. This estimate of costs should be completed early in the process to determine if the reuse project has merit and is cost-effective.

All of Dynatec’s treatment and reuse systems employ membrane filtration because the properly selected membranes provide the best method of insuring the qualitative result desired and in almost every case they provide the most cost effective method of achieving the desired result.

Membrane selection is based upon wastewater characteristics and the desired recovered water quality requirements in the process in which the membranes are utilized.

With the above information, treatability work is typically conducted to define the treatment system requirements and design parameters.

Typical wastewater treatment/purification systems for reuse are as follows.

• Purification of process baths/tanks for reuse typically using ultrafiltration
  • Cleaning tanks with contaminants removed employing Ultrafiltration
  • Scrubbers with contaminants removed employing Ultrafiltration
  • Vibratory metal finishing with contaminants removed employing Ultrafiltration
  • Any other employing UF and RO filtration to produce higher quality water for reuse
• Recovery of specific components found in the wastewater
  • Precious metal recovery employing Ultrafiltration, Nanofiltration and/or Reverse Osmosis
  • Latex paint recovery employing Ultrafiltration
  • Textile size separation and recovery
  • Others where removal of water allows concentration of the product to be recovered
• MBR biological treatment for reuse in cooling towers, scrubbers and like type water users that do not require potable water or high-purity water
  • Food processing facilities where MBR permeate is used in cooling towers and scrubbers
  • Metal working facilities where MBR permeate is used in cooling towers and scrubbers
  • General manufacturing
• MBR biological treatment followed by Nanofiltration or Reverse Osmosis
  • All types of manufacturing and food processing facilities where there is a requirement for higher purity water for reuse.

A Clear Look at Reuse Systems pdf

https://www.dynatecsystems.com/technologies/recovery-and-reuse/