On November 20th, ClearCove presented at the New York Energy Specialty Conference in Albany, NY on the results of its NYSERDA funded demonstration project.
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ClearCove - NYWEA New York Energy Specialty Conference
1. Towards Net-Zero Energy in Wastewater Treatment
Demonstration of ClearCove’s
Enhanced Primary Treatment Technology
Alex Wright, ClearCove Systems & Mark Greene, O’Brien & Gere
NYWEAENERGY SPECIALTY CONFERENCE
November 20, 2014
2. Enhanced
Primary
Treatment
• Benefits
– Divert digestible material
• from secondary treatment
• to anaerobic digestion
– Higher TSS and BOD removal
– Coagulant addition leads to phosphorus
removal
• Key Impact Areas of Evaluation
– Chemical costs
– Hydraulic profile
– Readily degradable organics for N-removal
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3. Demonstration
• CCS EPT Pilot
• Anaerobic
Digestion Pilots
• Biochemical
Methane
Potential Testing
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4. EPT Pilot
• 20,000 gal/day
• Equalizes the flow
• Stops the Flow
• Removes 100% of the grit
• Removes 100% of the fibers
• Settles the high value organics
– Phys/Chem: chemical dosing and gravity
– Colloidal capture
• Filters the effluent
– 50 micron screen
– Membrane Operation Benefit
• Removes the sludge to a classifying press
– Removes additional digestible organics
– Removes and dewaters gross matter
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5. EPT Pilot
• Wastewater pumped from
influent channel of IAWWTF
• Wastewater enters both sides of
the tanks through the Influent
Feed Chamber.
• Grit and dense solids settle out
• Wastewater flows over 70
degree weirs into the main
chamber of the tank where the
lighter solids settle out
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6. EPT Pilot • Screen box is lowered into low
BOD, low solids supernatant after
the settling period
• Wastewater flows through the
screen and down a central effluent
hose
• 50 micron stainless steel screen
• Air scour to deflect any floating
material from coming in contact
with screen
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7. Ithaca Influent
Wastewater
Ithaca NY Results ClearCove’s
EPT Effluent
The Best Biomass gets destroyed!
Suspended “Fuel”
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ClearCove Results
Ithaca Primary Effluent
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8. Sludge
Classifying
Press
• Sludge from the EPT
unit is processed
through SCP
• SCP “cleans” sludge,
removing inorganic
solids and releasing
encased organics.
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9. Pilot
Digesters
• 4 Fixed Volume Reactors
– 300-gallon, cone bottom
– 100-gallon operating volume
• Hydraulic Mixing
• Heating using IAWWTF hot water
• Data logging for biogas flow and
digester temperature
• Biogas measurements taken every
10 seconds (over 1 million readings
over the course of the project)
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10. Pilot
Digesters
• Four (4) Feed Tanks
• Hydraulic Mixing
• Solenoid valve diversion
to digester
• Feedstock transfer by
buckets
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11. BMP
• Bioprocess Control
– Automatic Methane
Potential Test System
(AMPTS II)
• (15) 640 ml reactors
including controls
• Used to validate and
correlate the digester pilot
data
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12. Results
• CCS EPT Pilot
• Anaerobic
Digestion Pilots
• Biochemical
Methane
Potential Testing
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28. EPT
Demonstration
Summary
• Sufficient amount of data collected
• Pilot EPT: 84% TSS removal
67% BOD5 removal
76% TP removal
• Primary sludge fraction of digester feed
– 67% current
– 82% with EPT
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29. Digestion
Demonstration
Summary
• BMP Results
– IAWWTF Primary Sludge
• 4.4 scf methane per lb VS fed
– Enhanced Primary Sludge
• 6.6 scf methane per lb VS fed
– Statistically different with 95%
probability
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30. Digestion
Demonstration
Summary
• Pilot Results
– IAWWTF Primary Sludge
• 4.1 scf methane per lb VS fed
• 13.4 scf methane per lb VS destroyed
– Enhanced Primary Sludge
• 8.3 scf methane per lb VS fed
• 28.4 scf methane per lb VS destroyed
– Statistically different with 95%
probability
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31. IAWWTF
Impacts
Summary
• Secondary Treatment Costs
– Decrease by 62%
– Savings of approx. $125,000/year
• Methane Generation from Primary Sludge
– Increase by 2.4x
• $325,000/year in kWh value
– Optimized upside potential is 4.5x
• $625,000/year in kWh value
* CNG economic $ value would be ~2x
– Potential for greater amount
• Improved thickening
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