Lifewater’s portable systems are suitable for camps including those used for mineral exploration, ice road construction, oil/gas exploration drilling, road construction or maintenance, spill cleanup, environmental remediation, etc.

Our portable sewage treatment plants use side stream, tubular, cross-flow, polymeric, membrane bioreactor (MBR) treatment technology, which offers the following advantages:

• Small footprint
• The membranes are resistant to damage by the vibrations and shocks during transport
• The membranes are inside pipes with no need to handle dirty membranes
• Winterization for storage in freezing temperatures is easy and requires very little antifreeze
• Startup and shutdown are simple
• Operation & Service can be performed within the systems enclosure (usually a 20 or 40 foot shipping container)

All of these technologies can be manufactured in various configurations, including inside shipping containers to facilitate transport to a site. Larger systems (tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or several million gallons per day) can be placed inside a heated building. Summer use only systems can be used outdoors in uninsulated configurations.

For non-portable treatment plants we use the best treatment technology for your application whether it is an oil production facility, operating mine, tourist accommodation, fishing lodge, church, village, subdivision, apartment building, etc. Many technologies are possible but the ones that we typically choose from include:

Submerged fixed film activated sludge:

• low energy use
• very simple technology to operate and maintain

Immersed, Polymeric flat plate MBRs:

• low energy use
• relatively lightweight

Sidestream, cross-fly, polymeric tubular MBRs

• small footprint
• the membranes are resistant to damage by the vibrations and shocks during transport
• the membranes are inside pipes with no need to handle dirty membranes
• winterization for storage in freezing temperatures is easy and requires very little antifreeze
• startup and shutdown are simple
• all operation and service activities can be performed within the protection of the enclosure (typically a standard height, 20 or 40-foot long shipping container). No through-the-roof access is required. No double-stacking of containers is required.

Immersed, ceramic flat plate MBRs:

• 20-year life (projected)
• low energy use
• not damaged by drying out after use
• once dry they can be allowed to freeze without damage, hence winterization and long term storage are simple
  can withstand backpressure for cleaning
• very resistant to nearly all chemicals and heat, making them suitable to use in industrial applications and allowing more  options for cleaning the membranes