Pulp & Paper Waste Water Treatment Plants & Recycling Plants

The pulp and paper mill industry is an intensive consumer of water and natural resources (wood), discharging a variety of liquid, gaseous, and solid wastes to the environment. Since the 1970s, a growing awareness of the effects of pulp and paper wastes in the ambiance has prompted water and energy consumption levels and loads of toxic compounds discharge to reduce. One of the most important implemented changes in this regard was made within the mill, wherein chlorine was completely substituted by, that is, chlorine dioxide as the bleaching chemical agent. Another major issue was the implementation of secondary biological treatments. The wastewater composition and hence the effluent treatment efficiencies and characteristics of the discharges are strongly dependent on the technology applied and the raw materials. In the last 25 years, however, the global distribution of pulp producers has significantly changed and so have the species of wood used. Eucalyptus pulp production, for example, is becoming a leader in the hardwood pulp market;

In the Pulp and Paper industry, a lot of effort is used to save water and close water circuits and to reduce substantially the environmental impact, by process modeling and Kidney technologies as internal process water treatment.

Effluents from pulp and paper mills contain solids and dissolved matter. Principal methods used to remove solids from pulp and paper mill effluents are screening, settling/clarification, and flotation. The method chosen depends on the characteristics of the solid matter to be removed and the requirements placed on the purity of the treated water. The aforementioned methods are used for the treatment of wastewater from Pulp & Paper Plants. We as GLANCO RECOVERY & RECYCLE claim to recycle/recover wastewater by means of using “state of the art” technology such as cross-flow UF and cross-flow RO / NF systems.

Typical Cross-flow Ultrafiltration system designed for Pulp & Paper waste water treatment.

Typical Bioreactor out of enameled tank designed for Pulp & Paper wastewater treatment.

Typical Cross-flow Ultrafiltration system designed for Pulp & Paper waste water treatment.

Typical Bioreactor out of the enameled tank.

Typical Clarifier out of the enameled tank.