Case Study
A company within the steel industry approached CentraSep because they were exceeding wastewater discharge limits
A company within the steel industry approached CentraSep because they were exceeding wastewater discharge limits
Waste Treatment Facility Case Study Challenge This case study has applications in every industry with wastewater discharge limits. A company within the steel industry approached CentraSep with a problem: they were exceeding wastewater discharge limits. Expanding and upgrading their wastewater treatment facility in order to stay within these limits was going to incur costs of more than $1 million. Solution CentraSep spent time evaluating the problem. We looked upstream in their process to see what application was producing the solids that was causing their wastewater treatment overages. CentraSep found a high discharge point where an overabundance of heavy metals, including zinc particulate, was being sent to the wastewater treatment facility from one location. CentraSep installed a complet