1. BERLIE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
SLUDGE TREATMENT SPECIALIST

2. General Information
• Modern facility (1999)
• 85 employees:
• 10 engineers / 10 technicians
• Fitters, welders, millwrights, field crew
• Full Time Quality control Inspector
• Current annual sales of $25 Millions
LaPrairie, Qc: 45 kms from US border

3. Certifications
Certification: ASME Section VIII, Division 1,
Fabrication
The National Board of Boiler & Pressure Vessel Inspectors
CE: Pressure Equipment
Directive (PED)
Manufacturing authorization
Certification:
Sanitary fabrication
standards

4. Design and Layout Optimized for Safety,
Operation, & Maintenance

5. Fabrication Plant Capacity
• 40 000 Sq. Ft
• 40 Ft roof (with overhead cranes)
• 70 Ft Tower
• Lifting capacity of more than 85 000 pounds
• Automated underwater plasma cutting
• Automated plasma welding
• Tank heads fabrication (F&D)
• Machining equipment
• Polishing table
• Electropolishing

6. Fabrication with codes and
superior alloys
Electrostatic precipitator
honeycomb section made in
Hastelloy
Sanitary Fabrication
(3-A, HACCP)

7. OUR EXPERTISE

8. DIGESTION

9. HIGH PERFORMANCE
DIGESTER
Typical installation

10. inlet
37°C
biogas
insulation
static mixers
(perforated
plates)pump
digestate
sediments
screw
compensation
tank
The sludge is stirred about 4 times/h for 30 seconds with
the combined effect of the pump and the static mixers:
 Mass transfer
 Separation of the biogas
How it works

11. Size of sludge treatment process
≈ 1 Usgal (4 litres) / d / EI
Type of digester / description Layout Biogas (energy)
production
20.000…50.000 EI
up to 220 US ton/d (200 m3/d)
1 digester
(up to 1 300 yd³ or 1 000 m³ )
onsite built and equipped digester
Up to 5 300 m3/day
(100 M BTU‘s/day)
50.000…400.000 EI
up to 1100 US ton/d (1000 m3/d)
Up to 6 digesters
(up to 7 800 yd³ or 6 000 m³)
onsite built and equipped digesters
Up to 26 600 m3/day
(500 M BTU‘s/day)
retrofitting of an existing plant with a
high-performance digester
digester
(450…1 300 yd³, or 300…1 000 yd³)
cost-saving, effective extension (load
alleviation) of an existing digester
inlet
biogas
outlet
sediments
Different layouts

12. DEWATERING & DRYING

13. Fluid Pumping, Agitation and
Mixing
• Pastes, Sludge, Biosolids
• Impellers, single or in combination
• Blades and paddles
• Helicoidal
• High and Low Viscosities
• Fluids pumping
• Mixing
• Heat transfer
• Separation
• Pelletizing

14. Coded Vessels rated ASME, API, GMP
Digesters, Fermenters and Bio-Reactors
• Conception and installation of all types of high quality vessels
• Piping, agitation, pumping and mixing systems
• Fermentation, digestion and distillation equipment
• High pressure vessels
• Pharmaceutical, cosmetics, dairy, breweries, alternative energies, residuals
• Municipal and Industrial: Treatment of water, wastewater and sludge

15. Patented Closed-Loop, Rotary Dryer Systems
62 lines in 15 countries
USA
Holland
Switzerland
Canada

16. REFERENCE PROJECTS

17. Les Herbiers, FranceKlein Eichholz, Allemagne
EUROPEAN PROJECTS
DIGESTION

18. QATAR PROJECT
DIGESTION
• Turnkey supply of 4 dryer trains (each 6 mT evap/h),
including: design, fabrication, installation supervision,
commissioning, start-up and training.
• Plus: Separate engineering for upstream and
downstream systems.

19. LAVAL, LA PINIÈRE, BIOSOLIDS DRYING PLANT
Rotary, closed-loop, type 5.0, 30 dt/day, 28-92% solids
DRYING PROJECTS

20. UK, AVONMOUTH/BRISTOL,
LOW TEMPERATURE BELT DRYER
3Tons (6613lb) of water evaporation per hour, 22-92% solids
DRYING PROJECTS

21. Söldern, Austria, LOW TEMPERATURE BELT DRYER
800 kgs of water evaporation per hour
DRYING PROJECTS

22. BELT FILTER PRESS, QUEBEC CITY CUQ INCINERATOR
Five presses 2.5 m wide, 25 dt/day/press, 5-27% solids
DEWATERING

23. Products: Our
Technological Procedures

24. Ecological Fertilizers or Construction Materials
• Dust and Odor Reduction while Spreading
• Slow dissolution organic composition used in agricultural, forest, public lands & roadsides applications
• GHG Reduction
– Maximum reduction when used as fertilizers
• Soil Remediation

25. Dried primary sludge calorific value of about 13,4 MJ/Kg
at Quebec City’s incinerator
Efficient & Ecological Energy Source
 Incineration/Cogen
 Cement industry
 Gasification
 Plasma destruction