Technologies
The treatment sequence
Collection and conveyance
Moving wastewater from its source to the plant.
Primary treatment
- Screening, neutralisation, equalisation
- Flocculation, coagulation, electro-coagulation
- Lime-soda process
- Dissolved air flotation (DAF)
Secondary treatment
- Anaerobic processes
- UASBR and HUASBR
- ASBR
- Anaerobic filter
- Sludge digester
- Activated sludge and variants
- SBR
- MBBR
- Fluidised bed biological reactor (FBBR)
- Fluidised media reactor (FMR)
- Submerged aerobic fixed film (SAFF)
- MBR
Tertiary treatment
- Filtration
- Disinfection by chlorination, UV or ozonation
Zero liquid discharge
- Micro, ultra and nano filtration
- Reverse osmosis
- Electrodialysis
- Multiple-effect evaporation
- Crystallisation