Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

Driven by population growth, aging infrastructure, and increasingly stringent treatment limits, many wastewater*facilities are facing new challenges including expanding treatment capacity while saving costs and moving towards*more sustainable process concepts. Among the unit operations commonly employed in a wastewater treatment*plant, expanding primary treatment to increase solids and effluent organic matter removal could be particularly*onerous as fixed concrete clarifiers make up a significant portion of a wastewater treatment plants footprint.*Trojan Technologies located in London Ontario has developed a rotating bed filtration (RBF) system that can*function as a replacement technology or supplement to primary clarification. Trojan Technologies is proposing to*partner with Lambton College's Lambton Water Centre to assist with the improvement and optimization of this*technology. Trojan is looking to develop a small scale RBF system (based on their Salsnes system) with Lambton*College. Such unit must be adaptable to the re-designs required based on testing as well as portable and*sufficiently reliable to be deployed, for data collection, into real wastewater treatment plants.*The research team that will include two research technicians and two research students will work closely with the*Trojan Technologies team to perfect the design at the smaller scale, them use the designs to build into a*demonstration unit. The results obtained from this collaboration project, will greatly aid in the future development*of this Salsnes Filter Technology, both in design, functionality and applicability.