Energy efficiency isn’t a mere buzzword; it’s a framework for developing future systems and processes. Many organisations are leading the way, adopting a circular economy in their production processes.
Energy-efficient processes can also apply to sanitary cleaning and industrial decontamination systems that use a significant amount of resources and energy per cycle.
Effluent Decontamination System (EDS) is a process that treats decontaminated streams containing hazardous chemicals, bio-contaminants and infectious substances. This effluent decontamination, followed by effluent discharge, is an essential process, ensuring complete compliance with the regulations protecting the environment and ecosystems. Like any intensive process, this treatment system puts a load on energy usage, in turn raising operational costs and contributing to an increased environmental footprint.
Organisations focused on reducing their energy usage need to optimise their systems. Suncombe, a pioneer and independent manufacturer of industrial sanitary cleaning and processing systems, supports businesses in building an energy-optimised and efficient effluent decontamination and effluent waste disposal process.
This blog highlights the various measures we incorporate to optimise the energy efficiency of our EDS systems.
Adopt Energy Efficient Treatment Tech
Some effluent treatment technologies and processes are better than others. Organisations wanting to move to low-energy technologies can look at upgrading their existing equipment to more energy-efficient technology.
Some technologies include replacing outdated pumps with variable-speed drive models to sync with the operational demand. Another way is to install heat recovery systems to reclaim and reuse waste heat for pre-heating incoming effluent or other processes.
Suncombe’s world-class Effluent BioWaste Treatment Plant Solutions (ETP) and Effluent Decontamination Systems (EDS) effectively deal with waste categorised between BSL Biosafety Levels 1 to 4. We offer thermal, chemical and thermochemical inactivation treatments available in Continuous Flow BioWaste effluent decontamination systems and Batch BioWaste decontamination systems focused on sustainability and efficiency.
Our thermal inactivation system uses steam, electricity, thermal oil or superheated water to effectively decontaminate and discharge biowaste in an environment-friendly manner. This technique successfully minimises energy usage, processing times, and space utilised.
Partner with us for an effluent decontamination system that’s BSL compliant.
Optimised Process Design
Optimising process design is important in optimising the energy usage of effluent decontamination systems. Managing and regulating the flow rates in EDS systems allows for energy efficiency whilst maintaining complete decontamination.
Secondly, it’s vital to determine which process is more effective and energy-efficient for the specific effluent volume and contamination level. You can choose whether our EDSflow®, Suncombe’s continuous flow effluent decontamination system, is better or EDSbatch®, our batch decontamination system, or our HybridEDS®, our Patent Pending continuous/batch crossover technology system, is your preferred choice.
All of the systems efficiently deactivate harmful pathogens in the waste stream and ensure total containment.
Automation in ETP and EDS
Automation holds the ultimate key to optimising energy efficiency in EDS and ETP systems. Suncombe has upgraded EDSbatch® biowaste decontamination kill systems to leverage a combination of automated batch processing functionality.
This system includes additional control facilities for user passwords, active directories, audit trails and electronic batch reports. Some of the advanced features of this FDA 21CFR and EU GMP-compliant software include remote monitoring. These controls assist your energy-efficiency efforts by optimising and monitoring energy usage in real time.
Automation in effluent systems can adjust the operation of the treatment parameters, pumps,mixers, macerators, aerators, and other decontamination equipment based on real-time contamination levels. It can also support predictive/preventative maintenance to prevent loss due to equipment wear and tear or failure.
Using Energy Recovery Systems
Incorporating energy recovery can be game-changing, reducing the overall energy usage in effluent decontamination processes. The energy recovery process involves capturing and reusing ‘waste’ energy to reduce the dependency on external energy sources. This process increases energy efficiency and promotes sustainability.
Suncombe’s updated GMP Water Heater Skids offer the option to incorporate electric heat pumps and regenerate and recover heating to support energy recovery processes and lower energy consumption. Along with an advanced control system, our GMP water heating skids are built to comply with GAMP and ASME BPE guidelines.
Assess and Maintain System Functionality
In addition to upgrading and maintaining modern, energy-efficient modifications in your EDS systems, it’s vital to monitor the current performance and maintenance.
An operational review of your EDS system’s operational schedule can pinpoint and address inefficient usage of energy and resources. Be sure to keep an eye on idle periods and overuse of resources.
Suncombe’s EDS systems’ real-time monitoring features track inputs and outputs and identify any inconsistencies in the overall effluent removal process and functionality.
Suncombe’s effluent decontamination system is BSL compliant, focuses on energy efficiency and sustainability, ensures reliable and safe operations, and helps various global industries and organisations meet their waste management needs effectively at all times.
Contact Suncombe for Energy-Efficient Effluent Treatment/ Decontamination
Our extensive partnerships and connections with blue-chip clients and organisations have led to incorporating sustainable and energy-efficient technologies in our EDS, cleaning-in-place and other validated and GMP-compliant products.
We constantly endeavour to meet our client’s needs, whether design and process specifications or organisational ESG goals. Innovation is part of our work ethic and ethos, prompting us to continually innovate newer products and services and always be one step ahead of the competition.
Partner with us to incorporate an energy-efficient EDS system for your organisation.
Contact our EDS specialists at salesdept@suncombe.com.