Aerfloat custom-built its AeroCIRC DAF to ensure compliant effluent for a Sydney ready-meals food company.
The major ready-meals company needed a wastewater treatment plant to manage increased flows and ensure continued business growth.
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 incorporated its AeroCIRC DAF technology and associated process equipment, tanks and controls to treat the process wastewater to the sewer discharge standards.
Aerofloat designed a vertical system maximised available floorspace for other business operations.
The sealed and vented tanks created an odourless plant, and the mechanical simplicity of Aerofloat’s design ensured a maintenance-friendly system.
Aerofloat designed a system that ensured compliant effluent from commissioning.
Aerofloat adapted its technology to fit a narrow, tall space, thereby maximising the available floorspace for the company’s production line.
The large Australian ready-meals company required a wastewater treatment system that would fit seamlessly into the tight space available, allowing for all other areas of business growth to be accommodated. Aerofloat was chosen via tender to take on the project and reached out to the other companies hired to help fit out the new facility, ensuring a collaborative business approach to design.
The busy pre-prepared meals company had fluctuating wastewater flows across the year, largely dependent on seasons. The wastewater treatment plant therefore needed to meet these variable flows and guarantee ongoing compliancy year-round.
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Aerofloat had recently launched its new product, the AeroCIRC DAF and was able to modify this for the client to fit the unusual space. The AeroCIRC DAF has a rotary scraper with a 60-degree bottom allowing it to self-clean.
The AeroCIRC DAF comes in two models allowing up to 30 cubic metres of flows per hour. Aerofloat installed a 2.6 metre diameter AeroCIRC DAF at the Sydney location, adapting the product to meet the narrow space.
Aerofloat’s General Manager of Engineering and Projects said the design was tailored to suit the unusually shaped space.
“It’s a very tall product. We kept the bottom half of our standard DAF and then added the rotary scraper above. This displaces the sludge into a chute,” said Anderson.
Aerofloat also ensured it understood the seasonal production expectations, such as soups in the winter and salads in the summer.
“Understanding the production end of business across each season and its effect on the wastewater treatment end was the first port of call for our engineering team. Knowing these factors plays into the type of wastewater and the way in which it must be treated,” said Anderson.
“It became a matter of identifying the space and better understanding their flows. We’ve done quite a lot of work on a number of food and beverage plants, especially in the ready-meals space, which gives us expert insight,” said Anderson.
Aerofloat designed the wastewater treatment plant using its 3D modelling capabilities and conducted multiple draft meetings to display what the plant would look like.
“The client, builder and consultant were all able to provide their opinions about how the plant would work from an operational standpoint,” said Anderson.
Once the design was agreed upon, Aerofloat moved swiftly into manufacturing and installation to ensure the client could begin producing as soon as possible.
“We had to be ready whilst other building works were going on around us. Aerofloat was able to meet the practical completion date that was specified so we could receive wastewater from the first commissioning of their lines,” said Anderson.
Aerofloat was able to optimise the plant to ensure immediate effluent compliancy even during the plant’s commissioning phase. It has maintained this standard since commissioning and the system has readily managed increasing flows as production ramped up.
The system was logic-controlled to facilitate remote operations and ensure that only effluent that met the strict Sydney Water standards was discharged. Both operators and Aerofloat’s engineers can access the system remotely via an eWon remote access system, giving maximum control of the plant. Aerofloat’s servicing team have readily assisted operators with servicing support and training since commissioning.
The balance tank was well mixed and aerated to inhibit fermentation in low flow times to avoid any build-up of microorganisms and ph corrected to optimise the chemistry for optimised solids removal in the AeroCIRC DAF. The balance tank was sized to accommodate influx of CIP wastewater mixed with other washdown water to create the ideal blended conditions to keep the chemistry consistent.
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Meat manufacturer Meyer Food Co. utilised Aerofloat’s AeroDAF to ensure compliancy for its meat processing facility.
Circular Plastics Australia’s new plant in Altona North, Victoria, will recycle high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) plastics from the Melbourne community. It required a wastewater treatment solution that would meet Melbourne city’s strict trade waste requirements.
Circular Plastics Australia’s new plant in Laverton, Victoria, required a wastewater treatment solution that would meet Melbourne city’s strict trade waste requirements. Aerofloat has worked with Circular Plastics Australia on multiple projects to ensure compliant wastewater.
