Demonstration of Advanced Sludge Separation Treatment Technologies for Decarbonization of Wastewater Treatment Plants
Advanced Sludge Separation Treatment Technologies for Decarbonization of Wastewater Treatment Plants
Caliskaner Water Technologies, Inc.
Recipient
Woodland, CA
Recipient Location
3rd
Senate District
4th
Assembly District
$190,957
Amount Spent
Active
Project Status
Project Update
The project team’s main technical focus has been on Task 2 – Design Fabrication and Installation of Advanced Sludge Separation Technologies and Task 3 - Monitoring of Baseline Sludge Treatment System. The project is progressing actively as planned to meet upcoming milestones.
The Issue
For many cities and towns, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are the largest energy consumers that account for up to 3 percent of global electricity consumption and are among the largest GHG emitters at nearly 1.57 percent of global GHG emissions . Anaerobic Digestion (AD) is the commonly used conventional sludge treatment technology used at WWTPs. Unfortunately, AD process does not capture all the latent energy in wastewater, is not economically feasible for WWTPs smaller than 5 MGD in size and is a significant source of GHG emissions.
Replacement of incumbent AD process with innovative and more efficient sludge treatment technologies is an essential step to take to achieve decarbonization of WWTPs.
Project Innovation
The proposed project aims to implement and demonstrate three innovative advanced sludge separation treatment (ASST) technologies to reduce Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These innovative ASST technologies include two sludge thickening technologies (Suspended Air Flotation Thickener (SAF) and Biosolids Filtration Thickener (BFT)) and one sludge destruction technology (Ultra Energy Efficient Super Critical Water Oxidation (Ultra-SCWO)).
Project Benefits
This project will result in the ratepayer benefits for GHG reductions, greater electrical cost savings, electrical reliability, and operational & capital cost savings from using advanced and innovative sludge treatment technologies instead of less efficient conventional sludge treatment technologies including anaerobic digestion. Assuming a market penetration of 25% of advanced sludge treatment systems, we expect 250,000 metric tons CO2e of GHG emission to be avoided and 0.38 TWh of energy to be saved every year.
Key Project Members
Onder Caliskaner
Subrecipients
Water Environment Research Foundation
AECOM
BASE ENERGY
Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc.
Process Wastewater Technologies LLC
Linda County Water District
George Tchobanoglous
Beyond The Dome
Heron Innovators
Usafi Technologies, LLC
General Contractor - Instrumentation & Controls
Match Partners
Water Environment Research Foundation
AECOM
Aqua-Aerobic Systems, Inc.
Process Wastewater Technologies LLC
Linda County Water District
George Tchobanoglous
Caliskaner Water Technologies, Inc.
Beyond The Dome
Heron Innovators
Usafi Technologies, LLC
