Tiger Bio Filter: Technological breakthrough

Introduction:
Rapid Urbanization of Indian cities creates a major problem of sewage collection and treatment.
Most Indian cities are located close to river and lack of land availability along river for centralized sewage
treatment plant causes river pollution. Also the centralized sewage treatment plants are power and chemical
intensive imparting large Operation and Maintenance costs. In view of these difficulties there is a need of
sustainable and environmental friendly wastewater treatment technology.

Treatment Philosophy:
In view of difficulties in terms of space and power required by centralized STP’s a research has
been conducted which resulted in Tiger Bio Filtration technique based on vermi-filtration. The technology
uses a filtration arrangement consisting of Bio media to trap and treat impurities from wastewater. The
filtration medium is arranged in stacked manner with bio media on top. The top layer serves as active zone
habitat for Bacteria and earth worms specifically bred for the purpose, while bottom layers provides
structural support and free drainage for clear water. The trapped Impurities (Organic matter) are then
consumed by bacteria and earth worms as an energy source for metabolism and reproduction resulting in
reduction in organic matter (measured as Bio chemical Oxygen Demand).
The system is designed with sufficient surface area and worm quantity. The worm consumes the
BOD (Organic matter) load in 24 Hrs making bed available for next day loading. As the Natural oxygen
transfer takes place no need of artificial air supply in form of blower resulting in less consumption of power
and consumables and is therefore cost effective and environmental friendly. The tiger bio filter uses far less
energy and space compared to similar technologies.
Tertiary treatment in form of Pressure Sand Filter and Activated Carbon Filter can be used as an
option for polishing the effluent.

Process Flow Diagram:

Salient features:
 Minimum land area requirement as compared to other technologies.
 Environmental Friendly technology.
 No Harmful by by-products generated.
 Less O&M cost (Unskilled labor can operate the plant).
 No problem of Secondary sludge handling.
 No Odor problem.
 Laboratory Analysis:

Bio-chemical Oxygen Demand

160
140
120
BOD (mg/l)

100
80
60 Inlet
40 Outlet
20
0
May-17 May-17 Jun-17 Jul-17 Jul-17
DATE

Raw and Treated wastewater

The laboratory setup for sewage treatment reveals the effectiveness of technology with minimum
power usage. The setup gives consistent output of < 20 mg/l BOD for more than 6 months as per
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board norms.

Photographs:

0.5 MLD Tiger Bio Filter at Sahakar Nagar Pune

 0.5 MLD Tiger Bio Filter at Sahakar Nagar Pune
Performance:

TS COD BOD 3 day

Percent Percent Percent
Inlet Outlet Inlet Outlet Inlet Outlet
Reduction Reduction Reduction
mg/l mg/l mg/l mg/l mg/l mg/l
620.00 320.00 48.39 350.00 32.00 90.86 87.50 11.25 87.14

The technology is well established having references in manual on sewerage and sewage
treatment (Second Edition) by CPHEEO and MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT 1993
under chapter 26 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT point no. 26.3
VERMICULTURE TECHNOLOGY.

Technology Developed and Promoted by:

PriMove Infrastructure Development Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

www.primoveindia.com

Contact:
Rohit Walvekar
+91 8975162200
rwalvekar@primoveindia.com

Mr. Ajeet Oak

Director
aoak@primoveindia.com,