With this industry we indicate the production plants for dairy, beer, juices, meat, animal by-products, vegetables, potatoes, edible oils and many more. Processes consuming serious amounts of clean water. Processes to produce high amounts of wastewater too. Wastewaters often being highly concentrated with pollutants including carbon (BOD, COD, TOC), nitrogen (TKN, NH4, NO3, TN), phosphorus (PO4, TP), fats/oils/greases (FOG), particles (TSS), and many more components in varying concentrations.

These high-pollutant loads increase the cost of treatment and may require significant storage volume for equalization of raw influent. On the other hand, possibilities are available to recover such nutrients, to produce biogas or to reuse (part of) the wastewater.

Wastewater plants at food and beverage manufacturing facilities are often challenged by fluctuations in influent conditions. Flow peaks. Temperature changes. Spills. CIP protocols. pH shocks.

Many of our realised solutions therefor are based on a proper pre-treatment, anaerobic treatment, biological treatment and nutrient recovery.