Veolia Provides Solution For Resource Recovery From Arla Dairy Wastewater
Arla dairy located in Aylesbury, near London, is the world’s largest fresh milk facility. In 2013 Arla planned the new dairy as a showcase of sustainable development, applying advanced process technologies and renewable energy solutions, targeting a zero carbon facility.
To support this concept, a first Memthane® Anaerobic Membrane Bio-Reactor was installed. This small footprint solution maximizes renewable energy production to cover more than 10% of the dairy biogas need while producing superb quality effluent with over 99% of TCOD removal efficiency.
In 2015, the production increased from 0.7 to 1 billion litre of fresh milk a year. In order to handle the additional wastewater flow and TCOD load generated, Arla chose to install a second Memthane® digester.
Memthane® solution is now a standard and validated technology for resource recovery from dairy wastewater. In South Africa, two dairies combined it with reverse osmosis to produce reuse water in a two step process only. For further information visit biothane@veolia.com.
