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X-Flow • Introduction to NORIT / X-Flow

recycling of wastewater • Our Technologies – XIGA / MBR

• XIGA
• MBR
• Case studies

NORIT Facts & Figures NORIT Organisation

NORIT N.V.
• Turnover 2004 : € 231 mln.
• Employees : 1200 (FTE) NORIT Actieve Kool Holding B.V. NORIT Proces Technologie Holding B.V.

> 200 (FTE) in Enschede EAPA NORIT Americas (NAI) Operating companies Int. Sales Offices

• Traditionally active in activated carbon

• Since 1996 active in membrane filtration Int. Sales
Offices
Production Production NPT

– 1996: Aquisition of NORIT Membrane Technology, NMT

application developer and system manufacturer since 1993
X-FLOW
– 1997: Aquisition of X-Flow,
membrane manufacturer since 1984 SÜDMO

– 2000: Aquisition of Stork Friesland (membrane division) HAFFMANS

membrane manufacturer since 1973 FILTRIX

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 NORIT Organisation X-Flow - Our Business...
NORIT Proces • X-Flow is a strategic m3/h Filtered water capacity
Technologie Holding component supplier for the
OEM-market.

• X-Flow has its base in water,

beverages, food, biotechnology
HAFFMANS SÜDMO COMP. X-FLOW NPT/NMT SÜDMO PROJ. SALES OFF.
and dairy.

COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS SYSTEM INTEGRATOR • X-Flow is always looking for

new partners.

…and succes!

Our Technology:
Our Products
Side Stream solutions
Our standard product portfolio consists of hollow fibres and
• Conventional system
M
*
AT CT
tubular membrane filtration modules that are used in a large
range of dead-end and cross flow applications.

aeration tank clarification tank

These applications can • Membrane bioreactor

be found for example in
drinking water production,
clarification of wine, or in
Membrane Bioreactors.

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Introduction XIGA NORIT XIGA™
XIGA™ CONCEPT

PWTP WWTP Characteristics:

• based on standardised pressure vessel (8” RO)
• open standard: allows competition for future
UF RO
• multiple elements per pressure vessel
• compact design with small foot print
• WW effluent • easy element loading and changing
• sand filter
• process water • enhanced cleaning options
• sea water
• grey water
• surface water
• drinking water
• well water

XIGA™
XIGA™
Semi dead-end UF in pressure vessels
Suspended solids content < 50 mg/l
Permeate distributor •Compact
Permeate • Horizontal
• Economical
Feed
•With CAPFIL membranes

Pressure pipe

Permeate interconnector

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NORIT XIGA™
XIGA™ CONCEPT NORIT XIGA™
XIGA™ CONCEPT

Filtration (fully automated) Hydraulic back-wash (fully automated)

X-FLOW in water reuse

NORIT XIGA™
XIGA™ CONCEPT
XIGATM 3 examples:
Chemical Enhanced Back-wash (fully automated)
• Drinking water (!) Windhoek
• Power industry China
• Irrigation of Kuwait City (Sulaibiya)

PWTL
PWTL

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 X-FLOW in water reuse
CASE STUDY, China Power industry
re use wwtp effluent
XIGATM (drinking water)

• source: secondary effluent

• function: bacteria barrier
• application: drinking water
(indirect)
• capacity: 1,050 m3/h (25 MLD)
• industry: water supply (Namibia) • Beijing Jingfeng Power

• Feed: cooling tower blow down

• Capacity: 560 m³/h (13,5 MLD)
• Target: RO pretreatment, prior to supply
boiler make up.

X-FLOW in water reuse X-FLOW in water reuse

China Power industry China Power industry

• Dalian Taishan Power Plant

• Caojin Power
• Feed: second effluent from Malanhe WWTP
• Capacity: 300 m³/h (7,2 MLD)
• Feed: raw tap water • Target: RO pretreatment, prior to supply boiler
• Capacity: 1250 m³/h (30 MLD) make up.
• Target: RO pretreatment, prior to supply
boiler make up.

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 UF lay-
lay-out
Fe-dosing

Buffering Buffer
Micro tank tank
UF
Strainers

-68 skids
-32 PV per skid
-8704 S-225 UFC
10.000 m3 5 + 2 feed pumps 90 % recovery
60 micron Disc-filters
TSS: Average 20 [mg/l] and maximum 35 [mg/l] 5 + 1 backwash pumps

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 Just the start up water…..
UF capacity 15.800 m³/h (380 MLD)

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 March 2005

• Successful UF-Plant operation

• Water quality within specifications

March 2005
Successful UF-Plant operation
Water quality within specifications
Official opening May 8, 2005

Our Technology:
Side Stream solutions
• Conventional system

AT CT
M
&
aeration tank clarification tank

$
• Membrane bioreactor

to reuse water!

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MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR

• Systems (indicative)
Conventional: MBR:
– heavy-loaded industrial waste streams
• low MLSS (3-5 g/l) • medium MLSS (10-20 g/l) • load: > 5,000 mg/l COD
• low age activated sludge • high age activated sludge • capacity: < 100 m3/h
• system: cross-flow
• only floc forming bacteria • all kind of bacteria survive
– medium-loaded industrial waste streams
• only fast growing bacteria • less sludge production • load: ~ 1,000 - 5,000 mg/l COD
• low chance for component- • good chance for component- • capacity: ~ 100-250 m3/h
specific bacteria specific bacteria • system: side-stream cross flow / AirLift
– low-loaded municipal waste streams
• sludge carry-over • no sludge carry-over
• load: < 1,000 mg/l COD
• effluent polishing required • high quality effluent • capacity: > 250 m3/h
• system: side stream AirLift

Cross flow versus AirLift

SYSTEM CONCEPTS

AirLift
AirLift

• MLSS 12 - 30+ g/l • MLSS 8 - 12 g/l

• Flux (80 - 200 l/m²h) • Flux (30 - 60 l/m²h)
• Smaller footprint • Small footprint
• Higher energy consumption • Low energy consumption
( 1,5 - 4 kWh/m³) (<0,7 kWh/m³)
• More simple processing • More valving processing
• continuous • discontinuous
• Very low TMP (0,05 - 0,3 bar) continuous
• TMP (1 - 5 bar). air injection

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Principe AirLift Filtration Filtration mechanism
Air
release
recycle

backpulse
permeate
Control!

Air
booster supply

CASE STUDY: MBR Vienna CASE STUDY: MBR Vienna

Week 91 Simulation daily routine Week 93

Week 92 Week 94 Simulation rain water flow

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 Cleanability
SYSTEM CONCEPTS Cross Flow Filtration Plant

PI PI FI
AirLift competitors
basic system side-stream submerged
bioreactor serially integrated integrally integrated

hydraulic conditions easy to be changed difficult to be changed

• pressure
• velocity
• air closed system open system: aerosol
chemical cleaning outside bioreactor inside bioreactor
• influence on biology
• flexibiliy

module inspection easy difficult

• integrity
• cleaning
• replacement
Multiple loop
VSD
capital expenses + ++
operational expenses ++ +

Cleanability
AirLift Filtration Plant

FIR
Single skid, double loop
• Footprint: 4 m²

• Membrane area: (max) 432 m²

4 mtr • Average capacity: > 43 m³/h

• (at 100 lm²h)
• (> 1000 m³/day)
– >10 m³/h/m² or
– > 250 m³/day/m²

Air 4 mtr
1 mtr

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 TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS
Single skid
• Footprint: 4 m² AirLift MBR (1/2)
• membrane type: F4385 (PVDF, 5.2 mm, double enforced)
• Membrane area: 522 m² (18 modules) • module type: 38PR (30 m2/module)
• configuration: parallel (capacity)
4 mtr • Average capacity: 30 m³/h at 55 lm²h
• (~ 720 m³/day) • process: AirLift (0.5 m/s air; 0.5 m/s liquid)
– ~ 7 m³/h/m² or • flux: 40 lmh (DWF)
– ~ 180 m³/day/m² 60 lmh (RWF)
• TMP: 0.05 – 0.2 bar
• membrane life time: 5-10 yr (application dependant)
1 mtr 4 mtr

CASE STUDIES CASE STUDIES

Bavaria (NMT)
CrossFlow MBR CrossFlow MBR
• source: dairy
• source: effluent maltery • function: MBR clarification for reuse
• function: MBR clarification for reuse • application: process water
• application: process water • capacity: 83 m3/h
• capacity: 65 m3/h • industry: dairy (Irl)
• industry: brewery (NL) – feed:
– feed: • 2500 BOD
• 1350 BOD • < 150 ppm ss
• < 200 ppm ss – effluent
– effluent • < 25 ppm BOD
• < 5 ppm BOD • < 0,1 ppm ss
• < 0,1 ppm ss

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CASE STUDY: MBR Vienna CASE STUDIES

AirLift MBR AirLift MBR

Vienna Beverwijk (NL)
• source: municipal wastewater
• function: wwtp
• source: Municipal WWTP • application: pilot water
• capacity: 10 m3/h • capacity: ~10 m3/h
– feed COD 300 - 700 mg/l • Quality:
– effluent: COD < 30 mg/l Feed E fflu e n t

BOD 200 - 400 < 5

(m g / l)
• Since 1999
COD 400 - 800 25 - 45
• DWF: flux 40 lmh (m g / l)

• RWF: flux 55 lmh

CASE STUDIES CASE STUDIES

AirLift MBR AirLift MBR

Biwa cho, Shiwa ken (Jpn)
• source: municipal wastewater
• function: wwtp
• application: pilot water
• capacity: ~ 40 m3/d
• Quality:
– feed: 150 - 250 BOD
– effluent: < 1 ppm BOD
Glen Medows (USA)
• source: municipal ‘septic’
• function: wwtp
• capacity: ~ 400 m3/d
• ‘gravity flow’
• Energy cons 0,5 kWh/m³

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CASE STUDY: MBR Ootmarsum
CASE STUDIES
(NL)
AirLift MBR Running 2006
Ontwerp parameters:
• DWA max. m3/h 75 Municipal wwtp (NL)
• RWA max. m3/h 150 • source: municipal
• Momentane netto flux RWA l/m2*h 61 • function: wastewater treatment
• Momentane netto flux DWA l/m2*h 46 • capacity: 75 / 150 m3/h
• TMP tijdens filtratie bar 0,05-0,15

• Lay-out UF installatie
• Permeaat productie bij DWA max. m3/h 75
• Permeaat productie bij RWA max. m3/h 150
• Aantal UF units n 6
• Aantal modules/unit n 14

REFERENCES (selection) REFERENCES

AirLift MBR
• 1-2 m³/h UF (pilot), municipal effluent, Halbturn (A, 1999)
CrossFlow MBR • 4-6 m³/h UF (pilot), municipal effluent, Wien (A, 1999)
• 7 m3/h UF, leachate, VBM-Maasvlakte (NL, 1998) • 4-8 m³/h UF, industrial effluent Freiburg (D, 2000)
• 5 m3/h UF, tank cleaning, Hengelo (NL, 1998)
• 10 m³/h UF-1, industrial effluent tank cleaning, Moerdijk (NL, 2001)
• 15 m3/h UF, leachate, Freiberg (D, 1999)
• 40 m3/h UF, paper, Munkedal (S, 1999) • 10 m³/h UF (pilot), municipal effluent, Beverwijk (NL, 2002)
• 9 m3/h UF, paper, Ugchelen (NL, 2000) • 10 m³/h UF (pilot), industrial effluent meat, Haulerwijk (NL, 2002)
• 83 m3/h UF, diary, Dairy Gold (Irl, 2000) • 20 m³/h UF-2, industrial effluent tank cleaning, Moerdijk (NL, 2002)
• 10 m3/h UF, tank cleaning, Pieter Bon (NL, 2001) • 5 m³/h UF, municipal effluent, Yanmar (JP, 2002)
• 20 m3/h UF, leachate, Hooge Maey (B, 2001) • 5 m³/h UF, municipal effluent, Saddle Ridge (USA, 2003)
• 65 m³/h UF, food, Kanes Food, (UK, 2002) • 10 m³/h UF (pilot), municipal effluent, Leeuwarden (NL, 2003)
• 8 m³/h UF, wastewater, harbour (Bahamas 2002) • 8 m³/h, municipal effluent, Glen Meadows (US, 2004)
• 25 m³/h UF, tank cleaning, ATM, (NL, 2003) • 16 m³/h, municipal effluent, Grand Traverse County (US, 2004)
• 8 m³/h UF, leachate, Wehrle, (China, 2003) • 75/150 m³/h, municipal effluent, Ootmarsum, (NL 2005).
• 65 m³/h UF, maltery, Holland Malt, (NL, 2004)
• 50 m³/h UF, vegetable waste, Geest, (UK, 2004)

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 Conclusion:
REFERENCES
Side Stream solutions
Floating Municipal MBRs (Cruise ships)
(with nr of people on board) • Conventional system
M
&
• Sun Princess 3000 AT CT
• Star Princess 4000
• Dawn Princess 3000
• Coral Princess 3000 aeration tank clarification tank
• Diamond Princess 4500
•
•
•
Sapphire Princess 4500
Island Princess 1000
Pacific Princess 1000
• Victoria 3500
• Membrane bioreactor
&
• Regal Princess 1000
• Grand 4000
• Pacific Sky - • Ocean Village 2500
• Grand Princess 5000
• Aida 3000+
• Seven Seas Mariner 2500
• 3 x Type 45 Destroyer (MOD) 150
• Seven Seas Voyager 2500
Since 2002…

Reasons to choose
The future is
side stream MBR
• Robust, reliable
• Simple process set up
• Easy cleaning
• Easy maintenance
• Good effluent quality
• Small footprint
• Limited cost

for side stream MBR

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