Applicant |
Small Business Innovation Voucher |
Project Year |
2013 |
Project Title |
Commercial application and treatment of sewage from urban restaurants industries to meet secondary treatment standard by oil degrading microbes |
Project Abstract |
This project plans to utilize the specificity and reproducibility of microbial system and develop a sustainable microbial oily sewage treatment reagent, for use in treating drainages from the urban restaurants to not only meet the government-stipulated effluent standards, but also the higher standard of secondary effluent. We hope to create a triple-win solution with our project to reduce the sewage contamination to meet the government effluent standards for the urban restaurants, and to expand business profits for our company. We plan to use the oil degrading reagents made from oil degrading microbial strains that were screened in the past by our collaborating laboratories, and conducted microbial oil degradation tests in sewage treatments, with the assistance of well-known academic department and an environmental protection company. The project will utilize an automated sewage treatment system built by the environmental protection company, and use the aforementioned microbes in the specific drainage pools during different stages of sewage treatment. We will also conduct normal day and weekend effluent tests with the rapid measurement of chemical oxygen demand and oil content, ensuring that the established treatment process will be fully functioning under the change of sewage volumes and component changes during different time periods. The treatment process is designed to reduce the oil content, COD, BOD and SS to 10, 30, 30 and 30 ppm or below, respectively, within a time period of 4 hours. We hope such process will comply with the higher quality of secondary effluent standard and achieve the ultimate goal of reclaiming water resources. |