I know many treatment plants in cold regions all over the world but the following is one of the biggest, the newest, the well built: the Orhei treatment wetland plant in Moldova
Shortly copied from the globalwettech.com web site I summarize here few informations.
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- In operation since: 2013
- Type of wastewater treated: Domestic
- Type of wastewater (other): + food processing
- Hydraulic load: 4600 m³/day
- Organic load (PE): 21.666 PE
- Organic design load (kg BOD/day): 1300
- Location: Orhei
- Client: PIU Moldovia - WorldBank
- Stage 1 type: French system
- Stage 1 surface area (m²): 18.000
- Stage 2 type: Vertical flow, unsaturated
- Stage 2 surface area (m²): 17.000
2 comments:
Really nice CW, but I think the most interesting thing about this CW isn't that it's a "cold climate" application, because in Moldova there is not a severe climate. It's rather the same as in Czech Republic, where I'm form, or Germany, Austria etc, and there are plenty of system like this. But much more interesting is the size of the wetland, because in our country, lot of technician believe that it's not an appropriate technology for even 1000 PE..
But for the technology chosen, I would maybe prefer some type of anaerobic digestor as pretreatment instead of french system. There's a lot of energy potential in this number of PE, which could be used, and OaM is not so challenging.
Thank you Vit for your comment. You are right when you say that is not a really cold climate. Many times a lot of people ask me if is possible to build treatment wetlands in East Europe, Russia, Germany etc because they combine the plants life cycle within the needs to treat wastewater all day of the year. This was the sense of the post, give info about a big system in East-Europe.
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