Setting new standards in water treatment technology

✍ Scribed by Thies Ehlers

• Book ID: 104320820
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 376 KB
• Volume: 1995
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(99)81320-0

✦ Synopsis

D u r i n g the construction o f a r o a d t u n n e l in Bonn, engineers discot~ e r e d u n a c c e p t a b l y high levels o f p o l l u t a n t s in the g r o u n d w a t e r they h a d to p u m p away. Now the g r o u n ~ w a t e r is being p u r i f i e d in a new, purposc~ built w a t e r t r e a t m e n t p l a n t with a capacity o f 5400 n d / bmaking it p r o b a b l y the largest p l a n t o f its k i n d ever to be commissioned in Europe. After j u s t eight weeks o f p l a n n i n g a n d c o n s t r u c t i o n , the p l a n t came into o p e r a t i o n on sch~ dule in December 1994. When it is working at f u l l capacity, with all 122 submersible p u m p s switched on at once, p o w e r consumption rises to a staggering 1.2 megawatts. Clearly, this is no o r d i n a r y plant.