Bord na Móna Environmental Products U.S. Inc. said that its parent company, Bord na Móna Plc. (Bord na Móna), has received new contracts worth $2.5 million in Italy and the UK for odor control system. The company is now treating a million cubic meters per hour of air in four wastewater treatment plants in Rome. The UK contract was awarded by British Steel to provide air-cleaning systems for solvent emissions from the company’s painting plants.
The company has recently completed a fourth installation in Rome with a contract value of $1.5 million.
The other international projects of note in 2008 include an installation on a large pumping station (Northpoint) in Hong Kong, a MÓNASHELL installation in Barcelona, Spain and a number of installations with SIAAP, the body responsible for operating wastewater treatment plants in France who have trialled the technology over the past number of years at their Achères and Noissy le Grande sites in Paris. The other contracts in Paris are currently in the pipeline.
According to Keaney, the company’s biological odor control systems, featuring either crushed peat or seashells, is designed for delivering significant, environmentally responsible benefits for wastewater pumping stations, wastewater treatment works, sludge-handling and treatment processors, municipal solid waste and composting centers, as well as VOC reduction at various industrial facilities.
The complete range of Bord na Móna water, wastewater, and odor control system solutions will be showcased at a new million dollar Bord na Mona Innovation Center being built adjacent to the Greensboro, North Carolina municipal wastewater treatment facility. “This Center will showcase our full range of technologies, allow for third-party verification, and enable increased research, development and optimization of new water reuse, wastewater, and odor technologies.”
Recently, at the 2008 WEFTEC Conference in Chicago, Bord na Móna has introduced three state-of-the-art decentralized wastewater treatment solutions and the revolutionary odor control solution that features seashells as the filtration media. “Our new PuraM Membrane Bioreactor, PuraMAX Moving Bed Biological Reactor, and PuraSAF Submerged Aerated Filter wastewater treatment solutions and MÓNASHELL Enhanced Biofiltration odor control technology are now available in the North American market. In addition to reducing wastewater and air pollution each product exhibits environmental benefits including reduction in energy and chemical demand, incorporation of recycled materials and water conservation.”
Bord Na Móna is an Ireland-based environmentally responsible utility service provider encompassing electricity, heating, resource recovery, water, growing media and related services.