Up to 2% of All Electrical Power Goes to Managing Wastewater, but a New Generation of Start-Ups Is Offering Improved Options, Says Lux Research
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Jan 13, 2015) - Traditional options for secondary wastewater treatment burn up way too much energy -- 68 GWh annually in the U.S. alone -- and still leave behind excessive amounts of sludge. With increasing pressure from growing populations and more frequent severe storm events, there is a dire need to improve this secondary wastewater treatment, according to Lux Research.
As a result, a new crop of technologies is looking to transform wastewater treatment. Successful systems dramatically simplify the wastewater process and scale down easily to serve the hordes of small facilities in the market. Winning technologies harness passive aeration to reduce energy costs and fine tune the microbial population to significantly reduce sludge production.
"Technologies like membrane bioreactors emerged to improve the quality of wastewater treatment, but don't address the energy and sludge concerns, and the smallest facilities struggle to implement them effectively," said Tess Murray, Lux Research Associate and the lead author of the report titled, "Advances in Secondary Wastewater Treatment."
"Now, new startups are fundamentally rethinking wastewater treatment and effectively addressing energy consumption and sludge generation, which together account for nearly half of the operating costs at today's plants," she added.
Lux Research analysts looked at the current wastewater treatment landscape and evaluated five innovative secondary wastewater treatment technologies available. Among their findings:
The report, titled "Advances in Secondary Wastewater Treatment," is part of the Lux Research Water Intelligence service.
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