41.5 million Euros for Effluent Treatment and Recycling Facility

VA Tech Wabag (India), a specialist global player in water and waste water management today announces the receipt of Industrial Effluent Treatment Plant order from Reliance Industries Limited in India.

Reliance Industries Limited has chosen VA Tech Wabag for construction of a 32.4 MLD Effluent Treatment Plant with Recycle Facility for their proposed PTA and PET Dahej Manufacturing Plant, Gujarat and Tertiary Treatment Plant for Reliance Hazira Complex for an order value aggregating to Rs.270 crores.

For the first time in India, the proposed facility will benefit from a combination of advanced technologies from VA Tech Wabag. This Effluent Treatment and Recycle Facility will have Anaerobic treatment using Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Technology followed by Aerobic treatment using the state-of-the-art Membrane Bio Reactor (MBR) Technology. This will be followed by recycling facility using Membrane Technologies such as Ultra Filtration and Reverse Osmosis. The effluent from the facility will be recycled and reused in the Dahej complex.

The proposed ETP and Recycle Facility is the first large scale recycle plant for PTA wastewater in India. As part of the total Reliance Order, the Industrial Water Business Group of WABAG would be executing two projects – one on provision of Side Stream Filters for Reliance Dahej Manufacturing Plant and another project for construction of Tertiary Treatment Plant for Reliance Hazira Complex – for a value of around Rs.20.00 crores.

According to Mr. Patrick Andrade, Industrial Water Business Head, this is the first time in India that sandwich type Mixed Bed System will be used for Demineralisation process. The Effluent Treatment and Recycle Facility at Dahej is expected to be executed within a period of 21 months.