Dunapack Hungary gets anaerobic wastewater treatment from Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies
Posted: Friday 27th March 2009
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies has been awarded a large-scale contract for a waste water treatment plant by Dunapack in Hungary.
Dunapack is one of the key players of the Hungarian pulp and paper industry. At its site Dunaújváros, 70 km south of Budapest, the manufacturer of quality paper products has been extending its paper production capacity by 350,000 tons per year, so that the company will almost triple the previous capacity of 200,000 tons. Increasing the production volume makes it necessary to adapt the capacity of the wastewater treatment plant. Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies will execute the project drafting in the specialist expertise of the company’s subsidiaries Organica-VWS, Hungary, and Biothane Systems International in The Netherlands.
The scope of the project is to extend the existing aerobic treatment line with an anaerobic system with a capacity of 60 t/d COD and 15,000 m3/d (625 m3/h). For that, two Biobed EGSB Reactors (Expanded Granular Sludge Bed) will be supplied. Biobed is an energy efficient anaerobic waste water treatment process, frequently installed in the pulp & paper and food & beverage industry. The Biobed EGSB treats waste water with ultra high organic loading and requires an extremely small footprint. It generates energy-rich methane that can be used to cover a good percentage of the plant's energy requirements. The commissioning of the expanded water treatment plant is scheduled for June 2009.
