Environmental
Equipment
Division
Environmental Engineering
Pleasant Mount Welding, Inc.'s Environmental Equipment Division can provide Sequencing Batch Reactors from the design and engineering to the fabrication of the tanks.
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Headed by David Klepadlo, P.E., who in 1985 designed the first SBR on the East Coast for the Elmhurst Township Sewer Authority, Elmhurst, PA., winning an Environmental Protection Agency’s, Innovative & Alternative Technology Award for Energy Savings at the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Complementing this design with the numerous technological improvements over the past 30 years, PMWI’s SBRs provides state of the art, proven modern wastewater treatment for municipal, commercial and industrial wastewater flows.
PMWI’s systems come complete with fabricated structural steel tankage, blowers, controls, pumps and any additional equipment required to meet your specific treatment requirements. PMWI’s modular systems are prefabricated to allow for ease of installation based on your specific treatment and site requirements.
PMWI custom designs each SBR based on the customer’s requirements for treatment. These SBRs provide an economical wastewater treatment system, reducing energy requirements and the necessity of the addition of chemicals over conventional treatment systems. With their capabilities of nitrogen and phosphorous removals they are ideal for building new or retrofitting older communities WWTPs for complying with the Chesapeake Bay Biological Removal Requirements.
These reactions all occur in the same tank(s) and are sequenced according to the time required for each phase. The programmable SBR control panel automatically controls the 5 process steps. The control panel is designed so that time for each step may be easily adjusted in the field to adapt quickly to unexpected change in the conditions of either organic or hydraulic loads. This operational flexibility, unique to the SBR Process, insures future compliance with design performance even if the wastewater characteristics change. This SBR Process flexibility also guarantees maximum effectiveness in advance wastewater treatment, i.e., the biological removal of nitrogen and phosphorous. The key to this cost-effective method of nutrient removal is the inherent ability of the SBR system to easily provide anaerobic, anoxic, and aerobic conditions for the groups of micro-organisms selected for nitrogen and phosphorous removal.
SBR Process
Fill
Wastewater is pumped into the tank until a certain amount of mixed liquor is in the reactor.
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React
Treatment begins under controlled conditions to remove the required nutrients (carbon, nitrogen, & phosphorus). The control is air to produce anaerobic, anoxic, or aerobic conditions.
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Settle
Treatment is then halted to allow for the sludge floc to settle to the bottom of the tank.
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Decant
A decanter mechanism is lowered into the water to remove the treated clarified supernatant without disturbing the mixed liquor blanket.
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Idle
The idle period is time between completion of decant and beginning of fill. This occurs when actual flows are less than design flows.
SBR Case Studies - Success Stories
Case #1: Success Story
Wastewater Treatment Plant SBR Retrofit
Greenfield Township Sewer Authority (GTSA) WWTP in Pennsylvania
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By installing an SBR and eliminating final clarifiers with return and waste sludge equipment, the GTSA saved over $2 million in project construction costs.
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The upgraded PMWI SBR wastewater treatment system allows the plant to handle storm flows while meeting the State's stringent effluent requirements for ammonia and phosphorus.
Case #2: Success Story
New Wastewater Treatment Plant SBR Installation
Benton-Nicholson Joint Sewer Authority (BNJSA) WWTP in Pennsylvania
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This facility was monitored for two years to evaluate compliance with the total nitrogen discharge limits set by the Chesapeake Bay Biological Nutrient Removal requirements. It met or exceeded those limits without any chemical addition.
The BNJSA saved over $1 million by not having to construct clarifiers and related equipment.
Case #3: Success Story
Wastewater Treatment Plant Rehabilitation
Hartford Township Wastewater Treatment Plant in Pennsylvania
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The Hartford Township's existing Wastewater Treatment Facility is in the process of being completely rehabilitated to function using modern SBR technology from Pleasant Mount Welding, Inc.
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This rehabilitation will eliminate the existing Extended Air Activated Sludge WWTP which cannot meet the new Chesapeake Bay nutrient removal requirements on its own. It will be replaced with a new PMWI SBR capable of total Nitrogen and Phosphorus removal.
