In recent years sewage treatment plants have become critical assets for businesses. They are vital to recycling water and improving water availability. Efficient STPs are key to complying with environmental norms and curbing water pollution.
Their importance aside, STPs are pretty capital-intensive products. With time, the plants get older and their operating, as well as maintenance costs, increase. As a result, the total costs of ownership could increase over time. Keeping the TCO lower could help save considerable costs in the long run. What’s more, reduction of the TCO could be achieved with a few simple measures.
5 measures to reduce the total cost of ownership of sewage treatment plants
Select the right pumps
Pumps transport the process water from one filtration stage to another in water treatment plants. A single STP could have a vast network of pumps. Together, they impact the working life of the plant. The cost of the pump is impacted by the buying cost, energy efficiency, and capacity of the pump.
Selecting a highly efficient pump will certainly offer high benefits, but note that the pump must also match the volume of water to be processed, and undergo regular maintenance to ensure optimum operations.
Use highly efficient filtration technologies.
Energy efficiency and performance are the key avenues of cost-cutting in wastewater treatment plants. The filtration technologies in STPs are evolving to ensure lower energy use while delivering higher performance. For instance. The conventional activated sludge system was widely used earlier to filter biological waste in process water. However, this technology had a higher hydraulic retention time, required more space, and created issues regarding the disposal of sludge. It has since been replaced by The Membrane Bioreactor process (MBR).
The MBR system is a combination of biological filtration and microfiltration or ultrafiltration processes. The MBR is a much more efficient and shorter process than the conventional activated sludge mechanism. Explore the MBR system in detail on our blog here
Reduce the footprint of the sewage treatment plant.
The sewage treatment plant will occupy your real estate. It is possible that the land occupied by the STP cannot be used for any other purposes. In establishments such as hotels, real estate is a prime asset. Consider the cost of rea estate in the area where the wastewater treatment plant is to be set up. It is important to keep the size of the STP as small as possible.
Inovar provides customized sewage treatment plants with the lowest possible footprint to operate efficiently under the toughest space constraints. We also offer fully mobile packaged STPs which operate efficiently in areas with space constraints.
Go for automation
The level of system automation impacts the operating costs of the wastewater treatment plant in the long run. While manually operated plants entail a lower initial investment, spending over personnel costs could increase the costs in the long run. Further on, issues such as shortages of skilled personnel or human errors could add to the costs. On the other hand, fully automated systems require a higher initial investment. However, these systems eliminate human errors and function more smoothly, offering a longer lifespan and better performance than manually operated systems.
Choosing automation over manually operated sewage treatment plants would reduce operational costs in the long run.
Inovar provides fully automatic and cost-effective STPs for industrial, commercial, and residential facilities of any influent size and population
Improve maintenance practices
Regular maintenance of the wastewater treatment plant can go a long way in increasing the lifespan and reducing the total cost of ownership of the plant. Smart technologies such as digital twinning are helping companies collect, analyze and use data for data-driven maintenance. Entering into long-term maintenance contracts with the STP manufacturer could also save considerable costs in the long run.
Inovar STPs are backed by Annual Maintenance Contracts in order to save your STP maintenance costs over time.
Work with water treatment experts
Inovar is a company focused on ensuring highly efficient and cost-effective water treatment solutions for businesses. We design, manufacture and install highly automated and efficient sewage treatment plants that are capable of serving facilities of any size and population under the toughest of space constraints.
Inovar team works closely with the customers to undertake feasibility studies, understand the customer’s requirements, and provide customized water treatment plants capable of operating over long periods of time.