Lynas Corporation, Ltd, a rare earth miner and producer has selected Aquatis to conduct a technical review and optimise their 8 mega liters per day advanced water recycling plant at Mount Weld in WA.

The plant will meet the demand for recycling water, thereby providing an alternative to limited bore water supplies in the region.

Developing effective systems for the treatment of mining effluent requires extensive knowledge and experience. The treatment stages include coagulation, flocculation, settling, multimedia and granular activated carbon (GAC) filtration, and a membrane solution which combines ultra-filtration (UF) followed by a brackish water reverse osmosis (RO) membrane process.

The study focuses on reducing energy consumption, chemical and operating costs. We are particularly proud to be working on this plant. It is great seeing a mining company minimising bore water use by recycling water and improving water use efficiency. Ensuring sustainability of water supply should be an important factor for any mining operation.

Aquatis has been awarded a contract to upgrade commission and optimise an advanced Drinking Water Production plant and a Waste Water Treatment and Recycling plant at the Marina Village in New South Wales, Australia.

The Advanced Drinking water plant includes chemical dosing, settling, membrane based ultrafiltration system and chlorination.

The Waste water Treatment and Recycling Plant includes Screening, Membrane Bioreactor and UV disinfection.  Drawing wastewater from the existing sewer, the Waste Water Treatment and Recycling Plant will produce reclaimed water in line with the Environmental WICA licence. This will be used to irrigate open space in and around the Marina Village.

Reflecting its increasing capabilities in turnkey water and wastewater solutions, Aquatis has also been appointed to supervise all site installation associated with the project and to apply for the Drinking Water and Waste Water treatment and Recycling licenses.

Water Corporation, principal supplier of water and wastewater services to over 2 million people in Western Australia, has selected Aquatis to conduct a technical review of the Groundwater Replenishment Trial (GWRT) at the Beenyup Facility in Craigie.

 With this contract, Aquatis reviewed the 5 MLD Plant and implemented an action plan to improve its design and operation. This has enabled Water Corporation to optimise the design, construction and plant operations and maintenance for the 40 MLD plant that will be built in the future.

The study focuses on reducing energy consumption as well as operational costs. ‘I am particularly excited to be working with Water Corporation on the optimization of the Advanced Water Recycling Plant at Beenyup. This plant is a critical component of Western Australia’s leading-edge strategy in groundwater replenishment”, said Jean-Christophe Schrotter, Director and founder of Aquatis.

With over 20-years of membrane experience, Jean-Christophe Schrotter is an internationally recognized water treatment expert, author of six world patents and over 100 publications.

Aquatis is participating  in the WaterRA 1075 project on the Optimisation of Existing Instrumentation to Achieve Better Process Performance

The water industry recognises the growing need for online instrumentation in a number of business areas. The current challenge for the water industry is to better manage established online instrumentation that is fundamental to monitoring and verifying the performance of wastewater and water – treatment processes, sewer systems, drinking water catchments and water distribution systems. The aim of this proposed project is to assist the water industry to 1) improve utilisation and performance of online instrumentation and 2) reduce the life cycle costs. The project team has complementary skills in different disciplinary areas to work in this online monitoring and data management space to approach these issues with a holistic view. The project will utilise information from the literature, including research completed by the CRCWQ&T/WaterRA, experience gained by recent trials / in-house case studies conducted by industry partners, treatment system performance data, new outcomes from current research projects such as the WERF/GWRC, “Guidance on sensors in the global water industry” and outcomes from earlier workshops. The project scope does not, however, allow for the generation of new data within the allocated project fund. The collected information will be used to investigate an effective framework for data integrity assurance, improving process performance with a computational module for smart decision making. The project deliverables will include 1) a guidance manual for online monitoring to achieve better process performance for the Australian water industry; 2) inclusion of a prototype package of operational tools to enhance online data management and quality assurance of analytical measurement; 3) industry knowledge sharing of how a successful business case can be built; and 4) identification of knowledge gaps and deliver an action plan for future project development.

In  collaboration with AWQC,  UniSA – CWM,  National Measurement Institute (NMI – Australian Government Department of Industry),  UNSW, AECOM, SA Water, Water Corporation, Sydney Water, Sydney Catchment Authority, TasWater, Central Highland Water, Allwater, DCM Process Control, HACH, Gwater, AWA

Sydney, 12 September 2013 – Aquatis  will be presenting  at the upcoming Engineers & Operators Conference in Sydney.

The 15th NSW Engineers and Operators Conference, organized by the Australian Water Association, will be held in Sydney from 28^th to the 30^th October 2013 at the Novotel, Sydney Olympic Park. This year’s theme is: ‘Doing more with less while keeping the customer satisfied’. In this constrained cost environment, operators of water and wastewater infrastructure are being asked to continually optimise and look for smarter, cheaper ways of delivering services while maintaining or improving keeping customer service levels.

“The Engineers & Operators Conference is a great opportunity to meet with municipal authorities and industrial clients, who currently experience challenges with existing membrane water plants, or who are at the planning stage before a full-scale plant.

The title of Aquatis presentation is :
Improved Process Performance in Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants – Opportunities Presented by In Depth Technical Expertise and Novel Real‐Time Multi‐Parameter Analyser.