RESIDUAL WATER TREATMENT

Up to decades ago, the oceans and the natural resources of our planet in general, were considered incommensurable for which the human actions against it were so insignificant, that the quality and availability of the resources would not suffer any consequences. Thus, the ocean was used as a universal garbage disposal, spilling in it all types of waste and, although the capacity of the ocean has been incredible in absorbing all of this, it is reaching its limits.

In addition, the potable water resources of the planet are becoming insufficient, the humans, which are becoming more and more numerous, are consuming the water wells, prevented their recharge, contaminating and drying the rivers, lakes and lagoons, and destroying the forests and jungles that supply us with water.

Meanwhile, the great amount of residual water generated by all of man’s activities is very far from receiving adequate treatment, which is why great volumes of residual water get wasted and contaminate lakes, lagoons and oceans, affecting our ecosystems and reefs throughout all the coasts of our country, without noticing the future consequences that this can cause.

The technology commonly used in our country consists of activated muds that, although they can obtain acceptable results as far as the quality of the treated waters, it is inadequate from the cost - benefit point of view when the aspects of its enormous power cost, cost of operation and maintenance and mainly the environmental impact caused by the remaining waste mud are analyzed.

These waste muds have a high solid content, and normally they are compacted and later deposited outdoors or in land fills causing contamination of the ground, air and bodies of water. In some cases these muds are put under compost processes, but the generation of contamination, bad scents, proliferation of flies can’t be avoided and can even create diseases in communities nearby.

For 14 years, EcoRed has been working in an ambitious process of Investigation and Development to generate an integral series of technologies and solutions to the residual water treatment. The objective has been to reduce the high power consumption, as well as to take advantage of the potential to combine micro and macro biological processes.

In this aspect it emphasizes the controlled use of efficient systems of anaerobic and aerobic biological reactors, in combination with biofilters reactors with sands, activated charcoal and other compounds, in addition to hydroponic beds of bioconversion of sediments surpluses, in aquatic vegetation and river from, as well as the aquatic use of mollusks, fish and other organisms which can remove certain polluting agents that could persist in the treated water.

EcoRed applies technologies of very high removal rate for the residual water treatment that combines anaerobic-aerobe processes, with tertiary processes of biofilttering and bioconversion, that provide a treatment of very high quality and efficiency of cost-benefit to the residual water, in integral form and without producing toxic muds nor other by-products, generating treated water of high quality (tertiary treatment) that can be safely used for various purposes.

The best advantages of EcoRed’s cutting edge technology are the low cost of operation and maintenance and the non- production of mud or waste, as well as the simplicity of operation and the production of treated water of excellent quality for reuse, as well as vegetal biomass and plants that can serve an ornamental use, forage, nutritional and other uses.