Solution
Better Treatment Starts With the Right Understanding.
C-Water approaches wastewater as both a treatment challenge and an operational system — characterisation, pretreatment, filtration, chemical treatment, control, monitoring and optimisation.
01Why It Matters
Wastewater
Effluent treatment is the part of a plant most often designed for a load that no longer exists. Production changes, product mixes shift, and a plant built for a steady average finds itself handling a variable peak. The result is usually chemical overdosing to stay compliant, because the alternative is a discharge that is not.
02Common Problems
What Goes Wrong.
Unknown load
Without a current characterisation, treatment is designed against an assumption. Load varies by shift, product and season.
Suspended solids and oil
Solids and free oil overload downstream stages that were never intended to remove them.
Chemical overconsumption
Coagulant and polymer dosed to worst-case load costs continuously, even when the actual load is well below it.
Discharge compliance
Consent limits are checked at a point in time; a treatment system has to hold them across every operating condition.
Sludge handling
Volume and dewaterability are decided by the chemistry chosen upstream, and are often the largest running cost.
03Operational Risks
What It Costs the Operation.
Regulatory exposure
A non-compliant discharge is a reportable event with consequences beyond the treatment plant.
Operating cost
Chemical, energy and sludge disposal together usually exceed the capital cost within a few years.
Production constraint
When effluent capacity is the bottleneck, it limits what the plant can produce.
04The C-Water Approach
How We Work the Problem.
- 01
Characterise
Composite and grab sampling across real operating conditions, including the shifts and products that produce the peaks.
- 02
Pretreat
Screening, separation and flotation remove the load that would otherwise be treated chemically at higher cost.
- 03
Treat
Coagulant and polymer selected by jar testing against the actual effluent, not by general specification.
- 04
Control
Dosing driven by measured load lets chemical consumption follow the plant rather than its worst day.
- 05
Monitor
Continuous measurement at the discharge point provides both compliance evidence and early warning.
05Technology Stack
The System, Stage by Stage.
Each stage changes what the next one has to deal with. This is the sequence C-Water engineers around.
- 01
Influent
Load characterised
- 02
Screening
Coarse solids out
TIMEX - 03
Flotation / Separation
Oil and fines removed
TIMEX - 04
Chemical Treatment
Coagulation and floc
Kurita Europe - 05
Dosing Control
Follows load
Walchem - 06
Polishing
To consent limit
- 07
Discharge / Reuse
Monitored
Technology Stack
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