SmartDose

Description

SmartDose is a system to automate and optimise coagulant dosing in wastewater treatment, aiming for:

A constant effluent quality.
Avoid overdosing.
Reduce coagulant and neutraliser usage.
Reduce sludge production.

SmartDose reduces the coagulant and polymer dosing to the absolute minimum possible, by closely matching the coagulant dosing to the removable pollution. The polymer dosing is correlated to the coagulant dosing and will follow automatically.

SmartDose continuously analyses the feed to the DAF. The system measures if the coagulant dosing rate is correct and automatically adjusts the dosing rate if and when required.

You can integrate our SmartDose within existing coagulation/flocculation applications such as dissolved air flotation (DAF), screw press and decanter.

Technical details of the SmartDose

Reduction of coagulant and polymer consumption
Reduces sludge production
Reduces operator requirement

SmartDose checks effect of coagulant dosing shortly afterwards and adjusts when required.

The measurement is not influenced by variations in non-removable pollutants (being dissolved pollutants, like sugars and salts). This is the main advantage over competitive systems that follow the COD or TOC of water, which do not discriminate between removable and non-removable pollution.

How SmartDose works

SmartDose works in following order:

Wastewater coming from production process is more or less constant, SmartDose makes small adaptations in order to keep effluent quality (blue line) at its setpoint.
Incoming wastewater pollution increases, SmartDose automatically adapts chemical dosage in order to follow effluent quality setpoint.
Incoming wastewater pollution decreases, SmartDose automatically adapts chemical dosage in order to follow effluent quality setpoint.

Advantages

SmartDose measures at the beginning of the treatment process, so it guarantees quick reaction times and needs very little maintenance.

It also provides:

an automatic (and intelligence) operator control of coagulant dosage
a prevention of overdosing
no need for calibration
an economical setpoint
25-30% less chemical usage
15-30% less sludge production

The system only requires a small upstream balance tank.

Options

Pilot test
Rental
Business case analyses

Typical applications

Meat processing industry
Food processing industry
Fish processing industry
Pet food processing industry
Confectionary industry
Sludge dewatering industry

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