Food industry project for chip processing in Egypt

4.500 m³ Industrial wastewater treatment plant for Food Industry

Industrial wastewater treatment for food industry

Project

Chipsy the international company in the potato chips & snacks industry

Data

2019

Location

Egypt

Application

Retrofitting Jet Aeration with Advanced fine Bubble Aeration System in Industrial wastewater treament plant

SITUATION

Chipsy is the leading international company in the potato chips & snacks industry. During the past few years; chipsy has managed to carry-out several upgrades to reduce water requirements and at the same time increase the production rate. And that resulted in increasing the organic load concentration in the waste water, leading to necessity to attain optimization and upgrade of the aeration waste water treatment system, in order to enhance the treatment process and be able to handle the high organic load concentrations, while preserving the increase in the production rate and water savings.

It was required to increase the Standard oxygen Transfer Rate (SOTR) of the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) aeration tanks from 80-100 (kg O2/hr) to 160-200 (kg O2/hr).

PROBLEM

In the Old wastewater aeration system, Jet Aerators were used to deliver oxygen in the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) tanks. There are two scenarios to fulfil the required upgrade, by doubling the number of het aerators in each of the two SBR jet aerated tanks, and utillizing the new advanced aeration system engineered and commissioned by PuriChem Integrated systems and PPU-Umwelttechnik GmbH for the other two SBR Tanks.

SOLUTION

PuriChem Integrated systems along with their German Partners PPU- Umwelttechnik GmbH designed new advanced industrial wastewater aeration system to replace the old jet aerated system. The new industrial wastewater system has been applied to Two of the Four SBR aeration Tanks.The industrial wastewater treatment plant sytem is designed to deliver fine bubbles at a wide range of air rates. By insuring an even bubble distribution. The positive displacement blower is extremely robust with a compact design, and being installed above the ground had a great impact on lowering maintenance requirements and making the access, operation and monitoring of the apparatus very easy.

The maintenance cost of industrial wastewater jet aeration system is nearly 150,000 EGP/year for the single jet aerator, so if the first scenario was applied the maintenance cost of all SBR tanks jet aerators will be 1,200,000 (EGP/year) while the maintenance of the new advanced aeration system is 100,000 EGP /year.The new advanced wastewater treatment plant is very easy to access & maintain unlike the jet aerators which are totally submersible in water.

The integrated design made by PuriChem and PPU was able to achieve the main goal of the project to enhance aeration efficiency with proven energy savings, reduced carbon emissions, and lower maintenance cost through the optimum use of the following: sketch of the aeration of an industrial wastewater plant

Positive Displacement Blower.
Air Distribution header and drop-leg.
Fine Bubble Disc Membrane Diffusers.

Using (Variable Frequency Drive) VFD
Using (Variable Frequency Drive) VFD Improves the efficiency of the blower by matching speed to changing load requirements, allowing accurate and continuous process control over a wide range of speeds, and also eliminates the initial power surge and mechanical shock of switching the motor from ‘off’ to ‘on’, and extending the service life & lowering the maintenance requirements and costs for the blower and also for the downstream equipment.

The stainless steel air distribution
The stainless steel air distribution header and drop-leg, distributes air generated from the blower to the air diffusers located in the bottom of the aeration tanks. The air distribution header and drop-leg are made completely from stainless steel to diminish the friction losses to the minimum, and allow for better cooling before entering the SBR Tanks.

The Fine bubble Disc membrane diffusers
The Fine bubble Disc membrane diffusers play an important role in maintaining a high oxygen transfer efficiency over time. They provide an outstanding chemical resistance and durability as well as reduced surface fouling.

membrane disc for industrial wastewater treatment The advanced wastewater treatment plant aeration system applied for both SBR tanks; was able to deliver oxygen with a Standard oxygen Transfer Rate (SOTR) of 200 (kgO2/hr) with an absorbed power (P1) of only 70 (kW), The Standard Oxygen Efficacy (SOE) was: 2.86

ENERGY & COST SAVINGS:

As for the first scenario of applying four Flygt Jet Aerator(s) per each of the two SBR tanks, the Standard oxygen Transfer Rate (SOTR) will be max 200 (kgO2/hr) [*] at 160 (kw) absorbed power (P1), and a 5(m) water depth. The Standard Oxygen Efficiency (SOE) will be: 1.25
[*]The stated value is in case that; the jet aerators are performing at 100% of its efficiency.

The advanced integrated industrial wastewater aeration system designed by PuriChem and PPU was able to save power requirements with a value of 180 (kWH), and while the aerators are operating 16 (hr/day), the new aeration system will save up to 683,280.00 (EGP/year). [**] in comparison with the old wastewater aeration system.
[**]The prices are as of January 2017.

Environmental impact (CO² emissions):

The advanced new aeration system has lowered the CO2 emissions by a value of 466,560 kg CO2 emissions/ year based on the CO² emissions per kWh from electricity and heat in Egypt is ~ 0.45 CO2 kg emissions/kWh [***],[****]
[***]http://www.sunearthtools.com/tools/CO2-emissions-calculator.php
[****] Aeration process operation hours is 16 hr/day.