13-2-2013

Anaerobic effluent treatment

in the pulp and paper industry


www.paques.nl
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Who is Paques?
Family owned business
Founded in 1960
Number of employees : ~400
Operations in The Netherlands, China, Brazil, and sales office in Canada
Worldwide presence through network of partners, partnering strategy
Innovative biological applications for wastewater and gas
2011: SKion GmbH, the investment firm of German entrepreneur
Susanne Klatten (BMW, ALTANA, SGL) purchases 20% shares
2011: JV with Shell for biological gas desulphurization

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Paques has around 1500 references worldwide
Mainly anaerobic water treatment (energy from wastewater)
and biogas desulphurization
Market leader in pulp & paper, beer & beverage and food
sector
Strong portfolio in sulphur based biotechnology

Growing and developing in:
Metal and Mining
Oil and Gas through Paqell
Petrochemical
Algeae
Biobased chemicals




Who is Paques?
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Meet safe water discharge requirements
Reduce water consumption (water footprint)
Produce green gas (carbon footprint)
Upgrade biogas
Resource recovery from used water

By offering:
Biological processes and engineering packages
Integrated solutions
Reliable
High uptime
Energy efficient
Best performance with attractive economics
Paques helps companies to:
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Process design
Basic and detailed engineering
Manufacturing
Contracting
Construction
Research & Development
Laboratory services
Pilot testing
Consultancy and services
Paques services
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More than 1,500 reference plants in more
than 60 countries in the following industries:
Pulp and Paper
Beer and Beverages
Food
Distilleries
Chemical industry
Metal and Mining
Oil and Gas
Municipalities
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Anaerobic Waste Water Treatment
Pulp & Paper
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Purpose

Removal of organic
contaminants
Biogas production
Paques

The word leader in
anaerobic treatment
More than 875
references in more
than 60 countries
Anaerobic COD removal
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Smurfit Kappa Roermond Papier
1983
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100
st
IC reactor in P&P
started up in 2008
DS Smith
France
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Sludge granulation is the most popular anaerobic
technology to treat pulp & paper effluent
UASB/IC
75%
AF
2%
CSTR
7%
FB
2%
EGSB
14%
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No.1 in anaerobic treatment of wastewater
for pulp & paper industry
PAQUES
59%
A
17%
B
8%
C
6%
D
6%
E
4%
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Traditional aerobic process
BOD + O
2
H
2
O + CO
2
+ BIOMASS
CO
2
+ H
2
0
45
45
10
100
Aerobic sludge
Effluent
Aerobic biomass (~4 g/l MLSS)
Aerobic sludge
High growth rate
High energy requirement
High sludge production
Flocculant sludge
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Concerns of Aerobic Treatment

- Important Space needed

- Energy Requirement for Aeration

- Important Sludge Production

- Sensitive to Loading Variation

- Problems of Sludge Separation


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Anaerobic process
COD CH
4
+ CO
2
+ BIOMASS
Anaerobic methanogenic biomass
Low growth rate
Production of reusable methane (green
energy)
Low sludge production (& biomass is
asset rather than waste)
Granular biomass
Anaerobic biomass
CO
2
+ H
2
0
45
45
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Effluent
100
Aerobic sludge
CH
4
+ CO
2

75
20
100
5
Effluent
Anaerobic sludge
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Why anaerobic pre-treatment ?


- reduced energy consumption
- reduced sludge production
- more stable operation
- energy production
- reduced green house effect

In aerobic
plant
Revenue
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Secondary Clarifier before
anaerobic system installed
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Secondary Clarifier after
anaerobic system installed
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Improvement of aerobic sludge









Before anaerobic
system installed
After anaerobic
system installed
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Lab testing: Oxitop
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Pilot testing
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High rate (20-30 kg
COD/m3/d)
Small footprint
Low hydraulic retention
time
Self regulating system
Intensely mixed
biomass at bottom
reactor
Optimal sludge
retention at top reactor

BIOPAQ

IC reactor
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Advantages BIOPAQ IC reactor
Proven technology, > 875 BIOPAQ references
Closed system, corrosion free materials
Minimal foot-print (space saving and odor emission
surface limited)

Completely mixed reactor compartment due to Internal
Circulation principle
Optimal sludge retention due to two-staged separation
Maximal recovery of biological alkalinity, reduced
chemical costs

Robust & more stable due to
- two-staged concept
- automatic internal dilution (IC)
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Feasibility of anaerobic effluent
treatment
MILL PROCESS FEASIBILITY OF ANAEROBIC
TREATMENT
Mechanical Pulping
Debarking
RMP, Ground wood
TMP, BTMP (Peroxide)
CTMP, BCTMP (Peroxide)
APMP (Peroxide)
-
+
++
+/++
++
Semi Chemical Pulping
NSSC
Soda pulping
+
+
Chemical Pulping
Sulfite pulp condensate
Sulfite bleaching: E,O,P
Sulfite bleaching: C,H,D
++
+
-
Kraft pulp condensate
Kraft bleaching: E,O,P
Kraft bleaching: C,H,D
++
+
-
Dissolving pulp condensate
Bleaching: E,O,P
Bleaching: C,H,D
+
+
-
Secondary Fibres
Wastepaper, DIP ++
Non-wood (soda) Pulping
Straw, Bagasse, Cotton Linters

+
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Raw material and COD removal
Raw material COD efficiency %
OCC 75 85
MWP 65 -
75
MOW 60 - 70
ONP 50 - 55
Mech. pulp / spruce 50 - 55
Mech. pulp / aspen 65 - 75
Condensates 75 - 95

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General flow diagram
Sludge
dewatering
N,P
Effluent
Primary clarifier
Aeration tanks
Sec. clarifier
sieve
Influent
Return sludge
Biogas
Gasholder Flare
IC reactor Conditioning
tank
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Zero discharge concept at paper mill
Conditioning tank
IC Reactor
Aereation
Water storage tank
Secondary clarifier
Aereation basins
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SCA Newhythe - UK
IC diameter 9.5 m
Height 20 m
Volume 1,400 m3

Flow 6,000 m3/d
COD 5,000 mg/l
COD 30 tpd
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COD-load (kg/d)


IC Reactor COD load
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45000
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C
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Final effluent COD (mg/l)


Final Effluent COD
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C
O
D

(
m
g
/
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COD removal (%)


IC Reactor COD removal efficiency (%)
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SAICA 3, Spain
Diameter 9.5 m Height 24 m Volume 1,680 m3
Flow 8,000 m3/d COD 5,800 mg/l COD 47 tpd


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SAICA 3: Biogas production and VLR
15.000
15.500
16.000
16.500
17.000
17.500
18.000
18.500
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG
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Biogas production Nm3/h VLR in kg COD / m3.d
Loading rate and biogas
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VLR vs COD Efficiency
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Performance at high loading
Volumetric Loading Rate (VLR) in kg COD/m3.d
Loading rate versus biogas
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Palm Wrth, Germany
Diameter 9.5 m Height 24 m Volume 2 x 1,680 m3
Flow 9,000 m3/d COD 5,500 mg/l COD 50 tpd


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Papierfabrik Palm, Germany
TL, CM
BIOPAQ

IC
2 x 1680 m, Gasbuffer 500 m, Gasflare 1200 m/h
THIOPAQ

60/1.2
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Ruhrverband, Germany
Tissue
BIOPAQ

IC

2 x 195 m
THIOPAQ

ECO
2004

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Emin-Leydier, France
Diameter 9.5 m Height 24 m Volume 1,680 m3
Flow 6,500 m3/d COD 5,500 mg/l COD 36 tpd


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Cartonneries de Gondardennes
France
TL, CM
Turn-key wwtp
Anaerbic + aerobic
BIOPAQ

IC 1190 m
Gasbuffer 30 m
Gasflare 900 m/h
2006

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Rock-Tenn Solvay Paperboard,
USA
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Smurfit Kappa, UK

IC 6 x 24 m Flow 3000 m3/d COD 6000 mg/l

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Stora Enso, Germany
Hagen Kabel (LWC from spruce)
Diameter 2 x 8 m Flow 24,000 m3/d
Height 20 m COD 1,200 mg/l
Volume 2 x 1,000 m3 COD 30 ton/d
Eilenburg (DIP, Newsprint)
Diameter 4 x 5 m Flow 15,000 m3/d
Height 16 m COD 1,500 mg/l
Volume 4 x 310 m3 COD 22 ton/d
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Mechanical Pulping
Process: TMP by Sound
Raw materials: Masson Pine
Production: 200tpd
WWTP biological start up in 2001
Nanping Paper, China
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Mechanical Pulping
Process: PRC-APMP by Andritz
Raw materials: Aspen
Production: 500tpd
WWTP biological start up in 2002
Yueyang Paper, China
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UPM Kymmene, Germany
SC/LWC
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Fujian Nanping Paper, China
TMP/DIP
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YueYang Paper, China

Mechanical Pulping: Aspen/Eucalyptus
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Chen Loong, China
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M-Real, Austria
Sulphite Condensate