A city-based company engaged in manufacturing treatment plants has come up with the new generation sewage treatment plants using the advanced membrane bio-reactor technology (MBR). Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the Managing Director of Transdot, M. R. Narayanan said the quality of output of the treated water would be good enough to be used for almost all purposes in everyday life, other than for drinking. The new process combines suspended growth biological process with ultra filtration membrane system. The process uses less power. The plant is fully automated and the company has plans to introduce micro-processor based system for the sewage plants. The treated water from the plants is better than the specified standards prescribed by the State Pollution Control Board."Once treated, we get water to 85 per cent of total treated quantity which can be used in toilets as also for gardening purposes. The water quality in MBR process is far superior when compared to conventional treatment plants," Mr. Narayanan said. The company, which had already bagged several orders for the plant, had developed treatment plants having a capacity ranging between 25 KL and 500 KL. The price ranges from Rs. 4 lakhs to Rs. 50 lakhs for the sewage treatment plant with MBR technology.Over the years, the company has set up its treatment plants at 107 locations in the country and five in the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The company has set up a treatment plant at Kumarakom which can treat 90,000 litres of waste collected from the houseboats operating in the backwaters. Another plant is coming up at Alappuzha.
The Hindu,8th October 2008
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