CASE STUDIES & PREVIOUS PROJECTS

Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSDGC)—Cincinnati, Ohio

To address total suspended solids (TSS) removal and eliminate the need for ferrous flocculant in the sewage plant’s treatment process, AGES’s staff designed a system to treat wastewater from brewing processes from six (6) of the city’s largest breweries. They oversaw the integration of the new system in a pilot system for the process at the MSDGC. This project was built as the first phase of a comprehensive brewery reclamation system for the plant.

Thomas More College

For this project, our team designed a well treatment and bacteria elimination system. The system included a unique, entirely mechanical process, which eliminated the need for further chemical treatment. This new process significantly reduced client costs by eliminating the need for chemicals in their treatment of bacteria.

Glycerin Plant

Wastewater at this glycerin processing facility included “brown water,” comprised of glycerin, fatty acids, caustics, and high levels of sodium chloride. These constituents created treatment issues and resulted in high disposal costs. To address these concerns, our experts designed a wastewater treatment and reclamation system in which caustics, glycerin, and water were reclaimed, and more than 75% of the sodium chloride/brine was eliminated from the waste stream.

Mobile Wastewater Reclamation Unit—Brewery Industry

For this work, AGES’s staff designed and built a mobile system specifically to handle the worst effluent waste streams from the brewery industry, including caustics, other pertinent process acids and chemicals, yeasts, and solids. This system was able to transfer the waste and recycle the water from the effluent to a drinkable water quality standard within minutes. Up to 100% of the clean water, other chemicals, and solids (such as yeast) were treated and/or recovered from the effluent waste stream. This system substantially improved the client’s process efficiency, resulting in a waiver of their previous municipal sewer discharge surcharges for Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN), and TSS. The implementation of this system resulted in a marked reduction in operating costs for breweries.