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The cleaning of wastewater and wastewater neutralisation are key concerns in Germany today. Industrial wastewater treatment and the treatment of wastewater in municipal wastewater treatment plants are therefore becoming increasingly important. The elimination of trace substances and micropollutants from wastewater is an increasingly important topic, alongside issues such as sewage sludge treatment, the neutralisation of mine water and the removal of heavy metals from wastewater. The quality and performance of purification methods play a decisive role here. Wastewater treatment processes are constantly being further developed and allow for ever better water purification. We supply innovative solutions that are used in a wide variety of areas.
A large number of synthetic residues - from pharmaceuticals, household chemicals and care products, food supplements, etc. - pollute our wastewater. Thanks to advanced analytical methods, these micropollutants can be detected in an increasingly differentiated manner. With the usual technical wastewater treatment processes, some substances cannot be removed in a targeted manner and often only to a small extent, meaning that they end up in the environment. There they are only degraded very slowly or not at all. The effects of such trace substances and the resulting interactions on ecosystems and organisms are currently unforeseeable. In addition to raising public awareness of this issue, the removal of trace substances from wastewater is therefore of crucial importance, based on the precautionary principle.
An established process is the use of activated carbon in treated wastewater, to which the trace substances adsorb. As a cost-intensive resource, the precise dosing of activated carbon is extremely important. We have the plants for the safe storage and dosing of activated carbon, whether PAC (powdered activated carbon) or µGAC (micro-granulated activated carbon).
We supply you with innovative plants for wastewater treatment. We use the following sorbents for a wide range of applications:
Elimination of trace substances
Powdered activated carbon has a particularly high specific surface area. It is therefore used for the separation of anthropogenic residues in wastewater treatment. Its use is becoming increasingly important in this context, as the so-called fourth purification stage with regard to sewage treatment plants is also becoming more and more relevant.