Solar-powered Circulators Provide Reliable Wastewater Odor Control to Prevent
Health Hazards, Public Outrage and Air Quality Citations - Along With Major
Savings
DICKINSON, N.D., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- In wastewater treatment, the
prevention of odors escaping from storage ponds is so problematic it is a
disaster-waiting-to-happen. Even an occasional lapse in maintaining an
effective odor cap can have dire consequences including health hazards, public
outrage, and even shutdowns.
Such scenarios are not limited to sludge storage ponds. Industrial storage
basins holding manufacturing effluents, and even rainwater, contain
odor-producing sulfurous compounds that can waft over communities unless
capped effectively.
"We are very concerned about maintaining an odor cap," says David
Williams, Project Engineer at Shell Oil for the Martinez, California refinery.
"Our wastewater treatment pond is about 1/4 mile from the residential
community. We've got a delicate situation where even just a slight amount of
odor could arouse complaints from the community."
William's concern about wastewater odor control led him to looking for a
new aeration technology to replace two brush aerators that had been attributed
to incidents that produced odor complaints from local residents.
The solution was the SolarBee, a solar-powered water "circulator" from
Pump Systems (http://www.solarbee.com) that aerates ponds by circulating the top two
feet of water at a rate of up to 10,000 gallons per minute. This circulation
occurs with a gentle, "near laminar" long-distance flow pattern that provides
an oxygenated odor cap across the entire surface 24 hours a day.
This solution provided impressive cost savings. "Because the wastewater
treatment pond is at a remote location, we had been using rented diesel
generators to power the brush aerators," Williams explains. The total rental
costs for testing that system was about $15,000 a month. The alternative of
powering the site from the grid would have cost up to $150,000 due to the
remote location and electrical classification. As an added bonus, SolarBees
reduce energy costs by $10,000/year compared to hard-wired aerators.
Williams reports that since the installation of the circulator systems,
the Martinez wastewater treatment pond "has had zero odor complaints due to
inadequate aeration."
Contact:
Joel Bleth
Pump Systems
866-437-8076
http://www.solarbee.com
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CONTACT:
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