Ten-Years of Providing Sustainable Solutions to the Water Industry

Virotec Global Solutions (Australia) has been acknowledged as a leader in implementing sustainable wastewater solutions for industry throughout Australia. As part of its commitment to the “Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate”, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on behalf of the Australian Federal Government recently invited Dr Lee Fergusson, Virotec’s Chief Executive Officer, to document the ten-year history of the company by producing a comprehensive investigative report into the various industrial and municipal applications the company has implemented over the last ten years.

The resulting document highlights the commercial and technical history of Virotec, and focuses on the many industrial applications that Virotec has successfully undertaken throughout the country. These include solutions for timber preservation sites, lead and zinc smelters, gold and copper mine sites, industrial wastewater applications and solids treatment (including filter cake and other sludges and sediments), highway construction and infrastructure projects, coal-fired power plant wastewater, stormwater applications, municipal wastewater and biosolids treatment, landfills and many other industrial applications to treat wastewater and solids. The full document can be found at: www.virotec.com/ten_year_case_history.

Results have shown that ViroFlowTM Technology is an easy-to-implement, sustainable and cost-effective method for treating heavy metals, such as lead, mercury, arsenic and chromium, acidity, phosphate, biological oxygen demand, fats, oils and greases, and a host of other intractable environmental and industrial problems in Australia. Virotec also treats obnoxious odours and other problems associated with organics contamination, including hydrocarbons. For example, Virotec has become the “go to” company for copper, chromium and arsenate treatment, having implemented dozens of projects where leachable heavy metals were reduced to below detection limits.

Virotec’s capability in developing processes to remediate harmful wastes and solve soil and water contamination and environmental degradation so successfully has led us to expand our portfolio of services to include environmental assessments where Virotec analyses the potential impact that toxic substances can cause to human health and environment, and site assessments where Virotec provides a tailored assessment report to suit your needs, ranging from simple studies to more complex and detailed assessments utilising standards that can be modified to your requirements.

A range of case studies outlining the many different types of applications and their outcomes, along with the latest news and technical developments, are available at: www.virotec.com