GE가 멤브레인 기반의 하수처리 기술을 런칭했다. 이 기술은 바이오가스 생산과 강제 공동섬유를 결합하는 것으로, 산업용 물 재사용 시장을 타겟으로 한 ZeeWeed 500 멤브레인이다.

GE에 따르면 혐기성 멤브레인 바이오액터(AnMBR)의 생산은 비용을 절감하고, 산업용 폐수의 높은 화학적·생화학적 산소 소비 처리를 줄인다.

GE는 이에 대해 에너지를 절감하고 슬러지 생산을 줄일 수 있다고 말했다.

 

 

 

Industrial conglomerate GE has launched a membrane-based wastewater treatment technology, that combines biogas production with its enforced hollow fibre, ZeeWeed 500 membranes targeting the industrial water reuse market.

 

 According to GE the product - the anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) - reduces the need for costly, high chemical and biochemical oxygen-demand treatments of industrial wastewater. This, GE said, saves energy and reduces sludge production.

 

The anaerobic digestion (AD) component uses microorganisms to break down organic matter and includes renewable biomethane as one of its products which can be used to generate electricity. GE claims the bioreactor overcomes the shortfalls in effluent quality, process sensitivity, biomass growth rate, retention of methane producing microbes and sludge settlement - all characteristic of existing AD systems.

 

"Our industrial customers are yearning for more energy reduction in wastewater treatment, and GE's AnMBR will give them a way to generate renewable energy from their wastewater," said GE Power and Water general manager, Yuvbir Singh.

 

As industrial customers seek greater water reuse, while facing more stringent discharge limits, AnMBR offers lower costs, better performance and the ability to generate renewable energy from industrial wastewater.

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2014년 10월 30일]