“Bapco has been working hard over the years to ensure the best practices backed by the technology to be environment friendly refinery,” Deputy CEO Ebrahim Talib, the sidelines of the opening of two Steam Turbine Generators (STGs), told The 24X7 News the Waste Water Treatment Plant which will be formally opened early 2014 will be put into testing stage in July this year.
With the capacity of 600 to 700 gallons per minute the new plant will help in achieving the final affluence required by the supreme council for the environment affairs.
The technology of membrane separation of activated sludge, commonly referred to as (membrane bioreactor) (MBR), is the combination of activated sludge treatment together with a separation of the biological sludge by micro- or ultra-filtration membranes with pore size of typically 10 nm to 0.5µm to produce the particle-free effluent. The latter step replaces the final clarifiers used in conventional activated sludge treatment which achieve solid separation by gravity only.
Talking about the STGs project, the Deputy CEO termed it a major accomplishment as the entire project was developed on brown-field and speaks volume of expertise of the contractors.