6位国内领军水污染控制专家recently launched the initiative to establish China's first sewage treatment concept factory project. Currently, there are over 3,800 urban sewage treatment plants in China, with a total processing capacity comparable to that of the United States. However, they still face numerous outstanding issues such as high energy consumption and large amounts of sludge production during treatment, as well as water quality standards that cannot be fully met for environmental protection.
At the beginning of this year, six renowned experts in the field of water pollution control - Qiu Jiuhui, Wang Kaijun, Wang Hongchen, Yu Gang, Ke Bing and Yu Hanqing - jointly established the "Expert Committee on Sewage Treatment Concept Factories in Chinese Cities", aiming to apply global cutting-edge concepts and advanced technologies within five years to build and put into operation one or three sewage treatment concept factories.
"The concept factory is designed with sustainability in mind," said Qiu Jiuhui from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Researcher at the Institute of Ecology and Environment Sciences under CAS. "It aims to represent future directions in water technology for cities that can meet future needs for urban infrastructure development."
Concept factories have potential savings on energy use by up to 1%, according to King Keen from National Environmental Protection Bureau (NEPB) who also serves as Deputy Director General at NEPB Planning Institute.
The expert committee believes it is important not only for displaying China's advanced wastewater management technology but also an exploration full of meaning. As suggested by King Keen himself: it should involve internal rate-of-return analysis based on aspects like energy-saving measures while incorporating low-carbon initiatives into design plans.
As reported until December 2012 Beijing had a total number of 41 major/medium-sized wastewater treatment plants along with 50 small-scale urban wastewater facilities handling daily capacity exceeding 389 million cubic meters per day. Beijing plans to complete construction projects including 47 recycling water plants totaling over $1300 kilometers pipelines & $480 recycling pipes by end-2015 reaching a processing efficiency rate above ninety percent overall; additionally increasing its daily treated volume by another twenty-eight hundred eighty thousand cubic meters till end-2015 which would make center city area reach around ninety-eight percent efficiency ratio respectively.
By then expect further improvements will come forward ensuring better outcomes ahead!
