Gulkevichsky Starch Factory – Global Water & Energy to create a blueprint for waste reduction

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Gulkevichsky Starch Factory – Global Water & Energy to create a blueprint for waste reduction

One of the biggest starch manufacturers in Russia, Gulkevichsky Starch Factory (KZG) doubles its corn processing capabilities and mitigates the environmental impact by installing a new wastewater treatment plant from Global Water & Energy (GWE).

KZG increases its production capacity from current 120,000 tons a year and adds new quality products to its portfolio. The new wastewater treatment plant designed by GWE combines the most effective proprietary technologies to guarantee full compliance with all local environmental legislation.  As part of the partnership, GWE’s team will manage part of the project execution and train KZG staff to operate the newly built wastewater treatment plan successfully.

Engineered by GWE wastewater treatment plant for Gulkevichsky Starch Factory

Made to measure design, with proven technologies

With almost three decades of operational experience, GWE has been a reliable partner to the starch industry delivering custom solutions to handle both solid and liquid waste streams, contributing to a significant reduction of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and overall environmental footprint of the starch factories.

 “KZG’s main objective is to ensure the development of the plant’s production capacity to provide a high-quality product to the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries without harming the ecology of the Kuban region and the nearby community,” says GWE.

The industrial effluents generated during the maize processing contain different types and concentrations of impurities, requiring highly effective physical-chemical and biological treatment steps to remove or neutralize the harmful mixtures. The multi-step treatment line includes several GWE starship technologies, including the robust and highly-efficient ANUBIXTM – B – Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Bed (UASB) System.

This anaerobic reactor has been implemented at hundreds of industrial wastewater treatment plants around the world. Designed to maximize the removal of organic contamination from wastewater, the ANUBIXTM – B achieves superior treatment results while working with both granular and flocculant sludge. It allows for process flexibility and reliable operation during ever-changing production conditions at the starch factories.  

GWE’s ANUBIXTM technologies radically enhance effluent quality and, where required, can transform the organic industrial wastewater and waste into biogas which can be later used as a renewable fuel source at the factory.

After the anaerobic treatment, the residual organic contamination is removed in the ACTIVOXTM – a conventional activated sludge system followed by a final clarifier – to meet the local pollution control norms of treated water.

SOURCE GLOBAL WATER AND ENERGY 

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