North West based water and wastewater treatment specialist Arvia Technology has secured an agreement with Scottish Water to undertake a trial of its water treatment system.
The firm, based in Runcorn, has installed its patented Nyex wastewater treatment system at a water treatment facility in West Lothian. The system will be used to treat drinking water with the trial assessing the effectiveness of the system in removing organic material from raw water.
Arvia Technology was established in 2007 and uses technology developed at The University of Manchester.
Trials have shown the Arvia system could remove 68 per cent of organic material from water, with the new pilot with Scottish Water set to test the treatment on a larger scale. The trial is focused on establishing whether Nyex could have an application on hard-to-treat water with a high content of organic material, due to the impact this can have on drinking water treatment.
Arvia project manager, Akmez Nabeerasool, said:
“We are delighted to be taking this pilot project to a scaled-up level, which is the first long term drinking water application for our Nyex system since approval by the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI). The pilot will assess the effectiveness on a range of flow and current parameters and locate the technology at different positions in the treatment train, including before and after pre-treatment.”
Allan Mason, senior project manager for business excellence at Scottish Water, said:
“Research and innovation is key to Scottish Water being able to improve its water and wastewater services and ensure we are operating as efficiently as possible, even in the most remote of our communities. The bench trials of the Arvia system produced some excellent results on a difficult-to-treat raw water and I am very excited to see if we can replicate and sustain performance on a larger scale.
“If it performs well during this pilot, it could potentially offer us another method for treating drinking water in an efficient and cost-effective manner which continues to meet the high standards of service we aim to provide to our customers.”
Arvia’s Nyex is a tertiary treatment system which combines adsorption with oxidation in a process that has many applications in water and wastewater processing. See www.arviatechnology.com.
