Food & Beverages - Bakeries
EMG CASE-STUDIES
Leading Bakery
USA Northeast Region
- Install system with low capital investment cost, low O&M costs, high reliability, short payback period, & process scalability.
The Challenge:
EMG was retained by a leading bakery to address the following challenges for the Facility:
- Design, fabricate, install, and start-up a resilient wastewater treatment system to handle high-strength process wastewater.
- Eliminate the need for costly, environmentally burdensome, and logistically difficult shipping of wastewater from the plant.
- Install the system with a total footprint of under 2,000 ft2.
EMG's Solution:
EMG installed its proprietary, advanced PurEffluentTM treatment technology which included:
- Solids screening and wastewater equalization tanks.
- Highly automated PurEffluentTM system.
- A biogas collection, metering, and flare system.
- A polishing unit for further BOD5 and TSS reduction.
- A Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) unit with remote access to monitor & control the treatment system.
- Generating biogas as an onsite renewable energy source.
- Enhancing the standing within the local community as an environmentally sustainable responsible business.
The Results:
Some of the benefits of this project for the client include:
- Reducing wastewater organic concentration (BOD5) by 99% on average.
- Eliminating the cost for wastewater hauling.
- Allowing wastewater to be discharged to the local sewer system while maintaining regulatory compliance.
- Maintaining low labor and O&M costs for the treatment system.
- Allowing the plant to increase production without the increased burden from of wastewater generation.
EMG's Advanced PurEffluent™ Technology Solution enhanced the client's standing within the local community as an environmentally sustainable business, at the same time as reducing costs, and generating biogas for electricity production.