Municipal Water Treatment
Over 10 billion litres of sewage are produced every day in England and Wales. To treat this volume of sewage requires approximately 2,800 GWh of energy, equating to 1.7 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. The electricity demand required to treat sewage is expected to increase in the future as the population grows, we adapt to climate change and continue to deliver environmental improvements (Environment Agency).
HydroVenturi has the ability to treat municipal effluent waste-streams for population centres and pre-treat water for drinking purposes, via aerobic digestion. This is a bacterial process occurring in the presence of oxygen in which bacteria rapidly consume organic matter and convert it into carbon dioxide.
The operating costs of this process are typically very high due the energy intensive aeration technology used however with our ability to aerate using existing flow rates, HydroVenturi's technology requires little or no energy input.
