Meat processors utilised Aerofloat’s AeroDAF 200 to ensure compliant effluent for its Sydney facility.
Meyer Food Co needed a wastewater treatment system that could remove the high levels of SS and FOG in the wastewater from their new meat processing and cooking facility.
Aerofloat designed a system that would ensure compliant effluent whilst meeting the limited space available.
Aerofloat designed a system that would ensure compliant effluent whilst meeting the limited space available.
Aerofloat installed its patented AeroDAF 200 to ensure a low-maintenance solution for Meyer Food Co.
Aerofloat was able to design a system that fit the limited space at the Sydney location whilst ensuring compliant discharge to sewer.
The sealed and vented tanks created an odourless plant, and the mechanical simplicity of Aerofloat’s design ensured a maintenance-friendly system.
The fully automated system was installed with MCC/PLC/HMI logic and remote monitoring to allow operators access to the system when offsite and ensure remote support from Aerofloat’s engineers when required.
Meyer Food Company is the single largest dedicated sous vide foods manufacturer in Australia.
Founded under the name of ‘Bryopin’ in 1988, the family-owned and operated business had grown significantly since inception. Its Kings Park abattoir in Sydney required a new wastewater treatment system that could ensure the growing company kept up with increased flows at the site.
Aerofloat’s General Manager of Operations and Projects, Michael Anderson, said that Aerofloat’s patented AeroDAF design met the needs of Meyer Food Co and ensured a low-maintenance solution. It installed its AeroDAF 200 to meet the required flow rates at the new Kings Park site.
“Meyer Food Co needed a system that would manage flows of around 50 m3/day, with a maximum hourly flow for short durations of around 10m3/hour. Our AeroDAF 200 had a nominal design capacity of 12m3/hour and with hydraulic balancing provided, it was able to process wastewater at a rate of 10m3/hour,” said Anderson.
The AeroDAF 200 was the ideal system to remove the Suspended Solids (SS) & Fats Oil & Grease (FOG) at the busy site.
“Essentially, depressurised, dissolved air creates microbubbles that float flocculated contaminants to the top of the sealed AeroDAF. Our HMI timers periodically close an actuated valve on the discharge pipework, displacing the floated sludge to the top of the AeroDAF, and into the sludge tank,” said Anderson.
“Once in the sludge holding tank, supernatant from the sludge thickening tank flows to an underground pump station and then pumped back to the balance tank.”
Aerofloat’s design also included an effluent tank that ensured pH monitoring and correction prior to discharge to sewer.
The fully automated system was installed with MCC/PLC/HMI logic and remote monitoring to allow operators access to the system when offsite and ensure remote support from Aerofloat’s engineers when required.
“We designed the wastewater treatment plant using our 3D modelling capabilities so that Meyer Food Co could visualise what the plant would look like prior to installation,” said Anderson.
The system was logic-controlled to ensure only effluent that meets the strict Sydney Water standards is discharged.
Aerofloat’s servicing team have readily assisted operators with remote and onsite servicing support and training, as well as chemical supply, since commissioning.
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