ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
WHAT’S BUGGING YOU?
Most aviation maintenance facilities generate waste, and this waste needs to be disposed of properly. When it comes to disposing of contaminated water, disposal costs can be quite expensive. But you don’t need to pay these high prices to have your contaminated water disposed of – you can treat it yourself using bio wastewater treatment systems. These systems treat contaminated water and produce clean water that can either be reused in your work processes or legally discharged.
HOW DOES IT WORK? We talked to Andrew Battaglia, Wastewater manager for Chappell Supply (
www.chappellsupply.com) to learn how bio wastewater treatment works. “Basically, the way it works is that the dirty water comes in from whatever processes you are doing, whether it’s from cleaning parts,
washing the aircraft or whatever it might be,” he tells D.O.M. magazine. “We inject microbes into the system and as the water passes through the system, those microbes eat the hydrocarbons and produce clean water out the other end.” There are other components that
are incorporated into the treatment system to optimize the output and cleaning for a company’s particular needs.
WILL IT WORK FOR ME? You may be wondering if installing a bio wastewater system will work for your facility. What is the expense? How efficient will it be? Will it work with the chemicals we are using? To answer those questions, Chappell Supply starts the process by conducting a water survey. “How everything starts is we take a water sample to determine what is in the
BY JOE ESCOBAR
WITH A HEADLINE LIKE THIS, YOU MIGHT EXPECT I WILL BE WRITING ABOUT CONFLICT IN THE WORKPLACE. INSTEAD, I WANT TO DISCUSS HOW BUGS, SPECIFICALLY BIO-ENGINEERED MICROORGANISMS, CAN HELP CLEAN UP YOUR WORK PROCESSES AND SAVE YOU MONEY.
water,” Battaglia says. “We can then determine what is in the water and what the best way to treat it is. We then go from there to design a system that handles that particular waste stream. We can effectively treat about 97 percent of the waste streams that we come across.”
And what about paint stripper? “Depending on what is being used, yes paint stripper can also be treated,” Battaglia says. “That’s where the water sample comes in to play. There are a lot of options that we can incorporate in conjunction with the biological treatment for situations such as heavy metals and other contaminants, so it depends on the water samples and what kinds of levels we are talking about.”
“In addition to the water sample,
we will ask other questions to design a system that works best for the customer,” Battaglia adds. “We
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