Project follows 300% capacity increase at South Bermuda
George Lee, BioChem Technology Inc. President, announced that the company will work with Florida’s TOHO Water Authority and an other consulting engineers on the Poinciana WWTP #2 .
Poinciana uses the SBR process handling 3 MGD. Growth in the area combined with more stringent permit levels require an upgrade.
BioChem Technology Inc. is working with the TOHO Water Authority in Kissimmee, Florida and another consulting engineering firm to double the capacity to 6 MGD with no new tanks or increases in the size of existing tanks. This will be done by converting the plant to the MLE process. BioChem will provide bioreactor and aeration system design along with their BIOS control system.
BioChem Technology has worked with the TOHO Water Authority since 1997 on improvements to the secondary treatment processes in several of their Water Reuse Facilities.
The first was South Bermuda, Phase I, where an additional 5 MGD of capacity was added by converting the no longer needed equalization tanks to a Bardenpho 4-stage bioreactor. BioChem provided the concept, process design and the BIOS control system.
Later, BioChem provided concept, design, process review and the BIOS for TOHO’s Sand Hill WRF. Sand Hill needed an entirely new bioreactor.
South Bermuda, Phase 2A involved converting half of an existing carrousel to a Bardenpho 4-stage bioreactor; increasing the overall capacity from 3.5 to 8 MGD. BioChem provided overall design review, process design and the BIOS controls.
With the completion of this most recent phase at South Bermuda TOHO has achieved a 300% capacity increase without the need to build a new bioreactor.
“TOHO offers unique challenges”, said George Lee. “The authority provides its effluent for re-use to a local power plant. Florida has very strict standards for re-use water quality.”