Name

The UK’s first micropollutant removal plant: lessons for implementing ozone treatment into your wastewater management

Speakers

Mr Howard Marles, Wilfred Denga

Authors

Howard Marles, Curio Water, UK
Wilfred Denga, Severn Trent Water, UK

Description

This spring will see the UK’s first micropollutant removal plant up and running at Severn Trent’s Frankton site in Warwickshire. With rising infrastructure costs, and regulatory strengthening on the horizon across Europe and the UK, what lessons can we learn from integrating micropollutant removal systems into existing systems?

This presentation will cover: 

* Background to the project, and how the experience of using ozone to remove micropollutants in wastewater sites in Switzerland informed the project in the UK

* The results from the pre-testing at Severn Trent and how this was used to optimise and scale cost-effective treatment relevant to existing and upcoming regulation

* How the treatment plant was built and integrated into existing infrastructure

* Latest reports from the Severn Trent site at Frankton, with lessons for operational teams on how the system works 

* An overview of Curio’s work with other water companies across the UK as well as the latest news from its innovative work at Cranfield University testing combinations of ozone with granular activated carbon (GAC), ultraviolet and nanobubbles to remove a broad spectrum of micropollutants from wastewater

 

Time

12:15 PM - 12:40 PM

Location Name

Room 3

Track

10:05 - 16:15 Micropollutants & Emerging Contaminants