Wessex Water Installs the World’s First OxyTUBE - Case Study

Introduction
Wessex Water’s Optimisation and Innovation Team have embraced the most recent advances in wastewater aeration with their deployment of a bubble-less aeration solution called MABR (Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor).

Traditional methods of treating wastewater are costly in terms of operational expenditure (OPEX) for all water companies and Wessex Water is no exception. Firstly, significant energy is required to simply aerate and mix the bulk liquid. Secondly, population and industrial growth over the past twenty years has resulted in many older plants running closer to their peak treatment capacity. As a means of gaining additional biological treatment capacity, improved effluent quality and a significant reduction in energy consumption across their region, Wessex Water’s Optimisation and Innovation Team aim to assess the OxyTube MABR over the next few months. They plan to also evaluate the deployment for ease of application and operator use, before progressing to a larger scale system.

MABR technology, offered by Irish company OxyMem, is a revolutionary yet simple means of providing the lowest OPEX biological wastewater treatment solution. It is gaining traction amongst WWTP contractors, owners and operators across the globe and already many of the well known larger players in the wastewater sector are trialling the solution.