ENTA - Fertarex Wastewater Treatment & An Recovery Plant Services

There have been several attempts already to clean this type of waste water e.g by means of biological treatment methods. But it was found that this method is very costly since with conventional nitrification / denitrification huge amounts of organic material have to be dosed to the waste water to feed the micro organisms with a carbon source. In addition to that nitrogen feed concentrations are relatively high. As a result it is very difficult to accomplish emission limits of 1.5 mg/L N-NH3 to 10 mg/ L N-N03: This would equal a removal rate of 95 % and more, which would mean at least a multi-stage plant and most likely a polishing step. Hence to rely on biological treatment would mean high costs and resource consumption, and nelther ammonia nor nitrate would be recovered.

A solution for this situation is offered by the so called FERTAREX water treatment process which has been developed by the ‘ARIONEX Wasseraufbereitung’a company that is based in Switzerland. Slx plants of this type have been built in Europe and Asla. The first unit was installed in 1975, and over the last 35 years the economics and reliability of the process has been demonstrated.

The FERTAREX Process Delivers The Following Benefits:

• Almost all the ammoniumnitrate and ammonia is recovered from the waste water, resulting in a much improved production yieid
• Rellably staying within discharge limits protects the environment and prevents penalties
• The waste water is transformed into a demineralized water with rest-conductivities of 0,06-0.1 Us/cm, which can be beneficially reused on site and partially offset the requirement for pure water production.
• The produced demineralized water can be used for the on site production of nitric acid or as boiler feed water
• Zero or significantly less discharge of water into the environment
• Elegant safety philosophy