Optimize your precipitant dosage and unlock a significant potential for savings! The dosage is at an optimum level if your plant reliably adheres to the limit value but does not use more precipitant than required. How do we optimize phosphate precipitation? By using the Liquiline Control system. It doses the precipitant automatically in accordance with the actual load and your individual phosphorus limit value. This results in phosphate precipitation that is reliable and easy on resources.

For wastewater to be classed as "clean", phosphorus is one of the nutrients that must be reduced. Phosphorus is removed from the wastewater by adding precipitants, which can be dosed at various different points. However, phosphorus cannot be completely eliminated; only the proportion that is present in the form of phosphate can be removed. The phosphorus value is used to monitor the WWTP outlet while the phosphate value is used to control precipitation.

Iron salts or aluminum salts are the precipitants usually used. If the dosage is too high, this can increase the salinity of the biology and result in increasing sludge volumes. Too much salt increases the number of ions in the water, which in turn changes the pH value and can ultimately lead to corrosion of the system. Higher sludge volumes mean increased disposal costs. Last but not least, overdosing means that the precipitant, which is usually very costly, goes to waste.

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) specifies environmental objectives for surface waters that have a direct impact on the outlet values of wastewater treatment plants. The limit values for phosphorus in the outflow are dependent on plant size and typically range between 1 and 2 mg/l. If required by the local conditions, e.g. if the effluent from the wasteater treatment plant is discharged into sensitive waters, the limit values may be significantly lower.

Phosphate concentrations are usually subject to strong fluctuations, depending on the weather, time of day and the nature of the dischargers feeding into the wastewater network. To deal with these fluctuations, the Liquiline Control doses precipitant based on the load.

This means that the control system takes the current phosphate value in the aeration basin into account along with the quantity of wastewater that is currently flowing through the WWTP. Precipitant continues to be added until the target value you have configured for phosphate is reached and the limit value for phosphorus is reliably adhered to. This also prevents overdosing of precipitant, thereby averting an increase in the salinity of the biology and an increase in sludge volumes.