Advanced Water & Wastewater Treatment with MBR Process

ADVANCED WATER & WASTEWATER TREATMENT
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Abstract
Most of the Australians’ drinking water which falls on land gathered in dams, transported to the
various reservoirs and then taken through treatment to eliminate solids as well as kills pathogens
and thereafter distributed to the large community through networks of pipes. Indirect reuse of the
recycled water in Australia for potable purposes takes place just in a few regions. Malabar Waste
Water Treatment Plant has primary and preliminary treatment as well as sludge treatment as the
main treatment processes in the plant. This study aims at improving the efficiency and cost of
water treatment at the Malabar Waste Water Treatment Plant through the introduction of MBR
process. The alternative design comes along with numerous control and optimization of the
features of MBR process on the Aquifas model which aimed at enhancing aeration as well as air
scour energy optimization alongside optimization of recycling rate and supplemental carbon feed
optimization. The study findings established that the use of Aquifas model on MBR process
provided an alternative way of efficiently and cost effectively treatment waste water at the
Malabar Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Background
Most of the Australians’ drinking water which falls on land gathered in dams, transported to the
various reservoirs and then taken through treatment to eliminate solids as well as kills pathogens
and thereafter distributed to the large community through networks of pipes. Most of the urban
regions in Australia are sewered having waste water from various houses, returns, and industry
as well as commercial units. Normally, a section of stormwater as well gets into the sewers. Such
wastewater is often known as sewage and is taken to the sewage transport plants in which it
undergoes treatment to various levels of quality depending on the regional location of the sewage
treatment plant.

Indirect reuse of the recycled water in Australia for potable purposes takes place just in a few
regions for instance Penrith in which there is discharge of wastewater into Nepal River while the
water is thereafter used in North Richmond water treatment plant in the treatment as well as
delivery to the community spread across the Hawkesbury region (Judd, 2016, p. 288). Most of
the cities as well as rural towns in Australia are sewered hence there is a choice of treatment of
wastewater to an amount that is allowed for non-potable reuse which is already taking place in
Rouse Hill located in northwest side of Sydney in which treated water undergoes recycling to the
various households via a dual reticulated system.
Malabar Waste Water Treatment Plant is situated in Sydney which is found in New South Wales
and has been rated as the largest underground wastewater treatment equipment serving a
population of about 1.6 million people and a peak weather flow of about 1560 ML/day (McCall
et al., 2016, p. 589).
Malabar Waste Water Treatment Plant has primary and preliminary treatment as well as sludge
treatment as the main treatment processes in the plant. In the preliminary treatment, removal of
solid materials including cigarette butts, sand, grit, plastic pieces, sanitary items among others
are removed through screening and grit insinuating a screening device is used in the elimination
of large items (Neoh et al., 2016, p. 590). The primary treatment takes place in the primary
sedimentation tank in which screening and de-gritting occurs and this is done to eliminate
pathogen which may be present in the sewage or the amount of dissolved matter in the sewage
hence impacting the quality of the sewage. Sludge treatment process removes the sludge that is
collected during the process of secondary treatment.