APTwater HiPOx® Industrial systems offer Food and Beverage facilities the opportunity to reduce water demand, improve sustainability, and reduce overall operating costs. Our systems enable Food and Beverage facilities to reuse 50-90% of daily water demand by providing high-performance destruction of BOD, COD and other organic contaminants.
Food and Beverage facilities generally consume large amounts of water in the production of finished products. On average, water use for most facilities ranges between 1-2.5 gallons per pound of food production. Well over >54% of daily wastewater production results from as clean-in-place (CIP), wash down and cooling water applications. In some meat and vegetable processing operations wastewater production can be up to 94% of the total water demand at the facility. Our HiPOx process offers facilities the opportunity to recover and reuse these non-potable process streams by simultaneously providing disinfecting and destruction of organic contaminants.
Treatment of wastewater streams from most Food & Beverage facilities can be a difficult prospect for some technologies. Treatment plants face significant technical and operational challenges including:
- Very High BOD/COD concentrations (500->50,000 mg/l)
- Varying BOD/COD loading to the WWTP
- Varying flows, pH, and temperature
As a result, onsite treatment plant often suffer from varying effluent and significant fines for exceeding BOD/COD limit discharge limits.
