Inflation biting your budget? Reduce costs with Neo WaterFX for phosphorus removal.
Inflation may be cooling, but prices are not coming down anytime soon. That means your wastewater treatment budget is probably feeling the strain. But if you remove phosphorus from your wastewater, switching to WaterFX can help you reduce your costs.
Phosphorus removal and cost reductions
Most wastewater utilities do not think of phosphorus removal as a way to REDUCE costs, but it can be if you choose the right P removal coagulant.
P removal using traditional chemical treatment definitely increases costs. Traditional coagulants require large doses to be effective and produce a LOT of chemical sludge. To make matters worse, this sludge is fluffy and holds water, making dewatering more difficult and time consuming, requiring more polymer, and producing a wetter cake – all drive up costs for sludge processing and disposal. These highly acidic coagulants also require pH adjustment, so add caustic (and the maintenance headaches that go with it) to your treatment costs.
WaterFX cost advantages for phosphorus removal
WaterFX reduces costs by reducing the following (we’ll go into the how in the following sections):
- Reduced quantity of chemical sludge
- Ease of dewatering, reducing time/energy, polymer and retained water
- Reduction in other chemical feeds
Reduced quantity of chemical sludge
WaterFX reliably meets the lowest P limit with a dosage that is a quarter to a tenth of the dosage required for traditional coagulants. This reduction in sludge production is a major driver for reducing costs.
Ease of dewatering
Because WaterFX forms a dense, crystalline precipitate, it settles quickly and does not hold onto water. This crystal has actually been shown to improve the dewatering of biological sludge as well, resulting in quicker dewatering (lower energy costs), as well as reduced polymer usage for lower chemical costs. But the best part is the higher percentage of the final sludge that is solids and not water. You can dramatically reduce the amount of water you pay to send to the landfill by switching to WaterFX for phosphorus removal.
Reduction in other chemical feed
WaterFX is much less acidic, which, combined with the much lower dose, means WaterFX has an almost negligible impact on pH and alkalinity. Caustic feeds can be drastically reduced and, in many cases, even eliminated (and going into winter, that means less maintenance due to frozen lines too). Between the reduced or eliminated caustic and the reduced polymer, chemical feeds are simplified and costs reduced.
Best of all, say goodbye to compliance issues and their fines.
But perhaps the best cost reduction of all is the reduction in compliance fines from phosphorus exceedances. WaterFX provides “set it and forget it”, worry free compliance that safeguards your reputation and your community’s water environment.
Sounds good? Contact us for a free consultation.
If all these cost reductions sound good, contact us for a free consultation. Our engineers will help evaluate your particular wastewater and help you assess how much you can save by making the switch to WaterFX.
