COMMERCIAL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS
TREATING INDUSTRIAL WASTE
The oil, mining, and tourism industries in the United States and Canada face intense levels of public and regulatory scrutiny. Lifewater’s ExtremeSTP® wastewater treatment plants provide:
High effluent quality
Satisfies all discharge requirements
Easy transport
Easy installation
SCADA system for remote monitoring via Internet or mounted Satellite dish
Real time operational assistance and training via remote communication
Certified operator oversight
State certification plan for your operator
Time and money savings over the life of our systems
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.
Portable Systems
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.
Permanent Systems
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.
Cutsheets
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Portable Systems
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 sidestream, 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)
Permanent Systems
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
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low energy use
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very simple technology to operate and maintain
Sidestream, cross-flow, polymeric tubular MBRs
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small footprint
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the membranes are resistant to damage by the vibrations and shocks during transport
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the membranes are inside pipes with no need to handle dirty membranes
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winterization for storage in freezing temperatures is easy and requires very little antifreeze
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startup and shutdown are simple
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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, polymeric flat plate MBRs
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low energy use
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relatively lightweight
Immersed, ceramic flat plate MBRs
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20-year life (projected)
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low energy use
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not damaged by drying out after use
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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