You relax beside a sewage Treatment Plant
15,00,000 lits/day Reed Bed System at JSW Steel, Bellary

Water Before and After treatment

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Symbiosis Knowledge Village, Lavale, Maharashtra
These Systems were installed about 10 years ago

Symbiosis Knowledge Village, Lavale, Maharashtra
These Systems were installed about 10 years ago

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Reed Bed System

• Also known as bio-filters, constructed Wetland systems and Root zone systems
• Kind of Biotechnology…uses Natural Systems in engineered form for treating wastewater
• Employs three types of Microbes …anaerobic, facultative and aerobic bacteria working side by side in natural environment. Anaerobes thrive where aerobes can’t. Filling media and plants provide shelter to both
• Waste of one is food of other

 

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Salient Features

• No complicated setups
• No electricity wastage for aeration
• No costly imported equipments
• No moving parts
• No need of highly trained manpower for operations and maintenance

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Principle of Working

• Consists of a lined tank filled with coarse mixture of high porosity
• Highly efficient sewage treating bacterial mixture and supporting media.
• Specially selected, acclimatized flowering plants are used in the system.
• Roots of plants in association with bacteria give an effective sewage treatment.
• This system remains functional … Naturally

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• We have successfully handled 500 lits/day to 15,00,000 lits/day wastewater.
• We helped in improving a 6,00,00,000 lit/day produced water system
• We are capable of handling even larger flows
• Successful installation of over 100 Reed bed systems all over India.
• Approved by Central Pollution Control Board And State Pollution Control Boards