Finally good news from Kanpur: our innovation site at the Jajmau Sewage Treatment Plant is ready to receive the project’s pilot technologies. After a long delay related with the COVID-19 pandemic and other technical difficulties, all essential facilities are now available.
The innovation site has electricity, a tube well provides fresh water, there is an overhead tank available and a separate section for sludge management. All concrete platforms for the pilot technologies are installed and the operators of the pilots can use two modular offices and laboratory cabins while pilots are being operated.
Technologies
Four pilots will be installed at the pilot plant: ANDICOS TM pilot (which includes a full scale IPC Membrane Filtration installation leased by Ion Exchange, a pilot UASB Reactor and an Anaerobic Digester), the Self Forming Dynamic Membrane Bioreactor pilot built in Italy using the designs from CNR-IRSA and then installed for testing by Xylem India, the Constructed Wetlands Plus pilots designed in a collaboration between Hochshule Bochum and IIT Kanpur and Structured Adsorbents pilots, designed in a collaboration between IIT Kanpur and VITO.
Heavy metals
Jajmau is one of three sewage treatment plants in Kanpur city. In the vicinity more than 400 tanneries are located. The capacity of the sewage treatment plant is largely insufficient for the generated sewage water and only 50% is treated. Analysis of the sewage water often shows high concentrations of chromium (Cr) and other heavy metals like cadmium (Cd), due to illegal disposal of industrial waste in the sewage network. The innovation site offers thus a good opportunity to test decentralised treatment solutions for secondary and advanced treatment in specific real-life conditions and to detect and remediate problems as a result of upscaling.
