Why MBR
The World Water Council estimates that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in areas of absolute water scarcity, and 2/3 of the world population will be living under water stress conditions.
By 2030, global demand for freshwater is expected to exceed supply by 40%.
At the same time, the number of wastewater treatment plants worldwide is expected to increase by 50% to meet the growing water demands.
As a result, there has been a renewed interest in and acceptance of wastewater reuse as a viable option for providing potable and non-potable water supplies.
With global water shortages and the need to protect limited supplies from further depletion, domestic wastewater is being viewed as an alternative source for meeting new demands for water.
Therefore, reusing wastewater is becoming critically important as gap between demand and supply of fresh water is getting widened and our precious water sources are under threat.
Imemflo Membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology is well-positioned to play a critical role in reusing treated wastewater internationally. Over the past 10 years, technological advances have brought MBR costs down dramatically, and no other wastewater treatment process is as efficient and effective as imemflo MBR.
Membrane bioreactor [MBR] is the combination of a membrane process like microfiltration & ultrafiltration with the biological wastewater treatment process and activated sludge process. It is now widely used for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment.
Key advantages of MBR technology are,
- Effective separation of solids and biomass from liquid wastewater
- higher quality of treated water
- less sludge production,
- smaller footprint than conventional processes
- Reduced demand on our natural freshwater sources
- Reduced energy consumption.
The MBR-treated water can be used for many purposes, including:
- Irrigation for agriculture and landscaping such as parks and golf courses
- Process water for power plants, refineries, mills, and factories
- Indoor uses such as toilet flushing, gardening & cleaning.
- Dust control or surface cleaning of roads, construction sites, and other trafficked areas
- Concrete mixing and other construction processes.
- Supplying to artificial lakes and inland or coastal aquifers
Sustainability is only achieved when the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
In order to achieve sustainability, it is imperative that we develop new approaches to managing our natural resources. So that our future generation thank us.
At imemflo we recycle for generations.
