Water & Wastewater Treatment

www.wwtonline.co.uk | WWT | DECEMBER 2015 | 17 Project focus Wastewater treatment A step change in wastewater treatment comes to Ireland Project focus I reland's first wastewater treatment plant using revolutionary Nereda technology is now in operation at Clonakilty WWTP in County Cork. A treatment process which uses granular biomass to clean ● Nereda technology used at three WWTPs in County Cork ● Granular biomass treatment combined with sequencing batch reactors ● Significant footprint reduction, energy and chemical savings achieved Group. EPS Group has operated as a specialist Wet Infrastructure support services group for over 46 years. Predominantly active in Ireland, UK, Middle East and West Africa, we are one of the leading privately owned Design-Build- Operate (DBO) partners for the delivery and operation of water and wastewater assets for the water sector. Traditionally, EPS would have held contracts and partnered with all 34 water authorities in Ireland before the transition to one single water authority. During this period, the company has been at the forefront of driving standards in the sector, including ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO18001, ISO50001 and CEMARS – all firsts within our sector but helping to raise the bar in terms of collective standards for the industry. With respect to technology, EPS over the past decade has led the way in the application, innovation and roll-out of Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) technology throughout Ireland. The demographic and geographical spread of wastewater treatment facilities, coupled with the very o–en variable loads and stricter environmental compliance requirements suited the utilisation of SBR technology. Despite the success of the SBR offering, we recognised stricter environmental requirements from Europe coupled with customer targets for carbon reduction would require a different approach. Following a comprehensive review of wastewater using much less energy, the technology is being introduced into Ireland through a partnership between international engineering and project management consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV and EPS Carrigtwohill Wastewater Treatment Plant Jim Palmer TEChNiCal DiRECToR EPS GRouP

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