Mar. 23rd, 2019
On March 14, 2019, the 2018 Drainage Work Meeting of Sichuan Province cum Sewage Treatment Technology & Product Exchange Meeting was held in Shuangliu District, Chengdu. SafBon has brought our three core technologies and products to the conference, providing a green solution for the upgrading of wastewater treatment plant.
1. Phosphorus Removal & Sludge Concentration by Air Flotation
KWI is the inventor and leader of dissolved air flotation technology, which has invented 11 models of air flotation for different applications, during its 70 years development. Particularly, the application of KWI core technologies, the third-generation dissolved air system ADR and the U-shaped plate patented technology, allows the flotation equipment to operate under high hydraulic load and high sludge load. When using these technologies for phosphorus removal, the total phosphorus can be reduced to less than 0.05mg/L, and the problem of large land occupation in traditional processes can be solved. In terms of sludge concentration, the sludge can be concentrated at about 5% after the air flotation, which makes the sludge concentrator run more stably and the drug consumption reduced by about 30%.
2. KWI Filtration Technology
KWI’s floating filtration technology perfectly integrates air flotation and filtration. The equipment can be automatically backwashed one grid after another. Air floatation clarification and sand filter backwashing can be carried out at the same time. The quality of effluent is good, of which the turbidity is less than 0.5NTU and the algae removal rate is 99%. When using KWI activated sand filter cum continuous backwash filter, the hydraulic Load can be up to 18 m³/m2·h. Besides, the filter can run continuously without shutdown for backwashing. The denitrification deep bed filter’s operation integrates denitrification (nitrogen removal), phosphorus removal and suspended matters removal in the meantime.
3. Sludge Drying Technology
SafBon has the property right of the thin film sludge dryer, which can dry sludge with the steam from power plant. The dried sludge is transported to the power plant for power generation, fully meeting the concept of circular economy. The Qingpu sludge drying plant invested by SafBon adopts SafBon’s sludge drying technology in coordination with power generation, in which the thin film sludge dryers, independently developed by SafBon, are applied.
The implementation of "Water Pollutant Emission Standards in Minjiang River and Tuojiang River Basins in Sichuan Province" makes it necessary for wastewater treatment plants there to have an upgrading and reconstruction. The green solution provided by SafBon can perfectly prevents the SS, total nitrogen and total phosphorus of tail water exceeding the standards for wastewater treatment plants and solves the problems of sludge disposal. It will provide a solid foundation for Sichuan province to further implement the theory that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and win the battle of pollution prevention and control.
Mar. 12th, 2019
While many municipal sewage treatment plants are still worrying about the stability of Class A emissions, many provinces such as Zhejiang, Hunan, and Jiangsu have proposed quasi-four-category of water discharge standards. The introduction of high standard emission requirements is very different for the technical process routes introduced by various design institutes in China. This involves biochemical, physicochemical, membrane technology and advanced oxidation technology to deal with total phosphorus TP, total nitrogen TN, COD and other indicators. At the same time, it is necessary to consider the factors of land shortage, investment cost and operating cost of the existing sewage treatment plant, and it is necessary to conduct in-depth research and process comparison.
As China's economy is moving towards high-quality development and more provinces and cities have proposed that sewage treatment plant discharges meet quasi-four or ultra-clean emission standards, the high-quality voice of environmental protection equipment has begun to increase. As the saying goes, opportunities are always reserved for companies that are prepared. When SafBon acquired the KWI company in Austria a few years ago, many people expressed doubt and thought that traditional technology had no value. As the original company of DAF technology, KWI's intellectual property, patents and R&D personnel are a huge asset. Today, with a high degree of internationalization, it seems that SafBon is very visionary. We can no longer follow the old path of "introduction, digestion, and absorption" in the early days of Reform and Opening-up. Infringement and violation of patent laws have become unworkable. Nowadays, some companies are still enjoying it, and they are not relying on their own innovation to develop their business. This way, the road will be narrower and narrower. SafBon KWI’s DAF has the following advantages in the deep dephosphorization of municipal sewage plants:
1. Hydraulic load can be as high as 30 m3/(m2h)
2. Small footprint
3. The phosphorus removal effect is good, we can deep phosphorus removal to reach TP<0.05mg/L
To this end, we introduce the KWI’s DAF phosphorus removal process technology as follows:
1. U-shaped board patent technology, hydraulic load can be up to 30 m3/(m2h)
▲ Schematic Diagram of U-Shaped Board
2. ADR air dissolving reactor patent technology - to achieve the ultimate solid-liquid separation in the DAF tank.
▲ ADR Air Dissolving System (The Third Generation ADR Technology)
The process position of the DAF phosphorus removal process in the municipal sewage treatment plant is as follows:
In order to reflect the excellent performance of KWI DAF phosphorus removal, SafBon’s technology team obtained the following results through an on-site pilot test of about 8 months of a large municipal sewage treatment plant in a city in southern China.
When the hydraulic load is 25m3/(m2·h) and the reflux ratio is 20%, the effect of DAF phosphorus removal is shown in Table 1:
From the above data, it can be concluded that KWI’s DAF technology can achieve ultra-high hydraulic load and ultimate solid-liquid separation, breaking through the constraints on the “technology” and “land use” of the total phosphorus upgrading of sewage treatment plants, showing high efficiency DAF’s advantages of phosphorus removal. This lays a solid foundation for the promotion and application of KWI’s DAF in the municipal industry.
Jan. 28th, 2019
ItN, the subsidiary of Safbon group, will provide special process packages for the medical production sewage treatment project of Shanghai Tianci International Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. with MBR technology. This process was developed by Safbon Water for the special pharmaceutical sewage water including automation control and MBR technology linked to cloud platform. The main technological process is as follows:
Shanghai Tianci International Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is located in Zhangjiang High-tech Park, Pudong district. The park is known as China's "Silicon Valley and Medical Valley". For more than 20 years, it has constructed the framework of biomedical industry chain, integrated circuit industry chain and software industry chain. Zhangjiang High-tech Park is a national biomedical industry base, which gathers well-known pharmaceutical enterprises such as Roche pharmaceuticals and Tianci pharmaceutical, as well as key research institutions such as Shanghai institute of materia medica of Chinese academy of sciences and national new drug screening center.
It is a great significance for Safbon Water to provide MBR technology to Zhangjiang High-tech Park. This shows that in the process of the transformation of China's economy from "high speed development to high quality development" called for by the 19th national congress of the communist party of China (CPC), China's first-tier cities began to select the international top water treatment technology to treat the refractory industrial wastewater. This is in line with China's strict environmental protection policies. We believe that under the increasingly stringent national environmental protection policy, high-quality environmental protection equipment will develop rapidly and lead the development of China's environmental protection industry.
Jan. 26th, 2019
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At the beginning of the Spring Festival in 2019, all members of Safbon group gathered together in beautiful Qingpu to review the successful 2018 and look forward to the promising 2019. On the afternoon of January 24th, senior executives from the headquarters and subsidiaries of the group have brought wonderful speeches and valuable experience sharing from the group strategy, enterprise management, development of overseas subsidiaries, construction, operation, finance, production, brand building and market development.
Constant change and progress is Safbon's eternal theme. Gabriel Lok, General Manager of Safbon overseas business division, opened his speech with “Towards blue sea breakthrough” who conveyed the meeting spirit of the group Blue Ocean action -- the first market management and strategy meeting of the group's overseas subsidiaries in 2019 to our colleagues in China. He mentioned that in 2019, the group's revenue in operation and maintenance, product sales and overseas subsidiaries will increase significantly, while the parent company's construction revenue tends to be stable. In order to achieve this goal, Safbon needs to grasp the opportunities of the times, grasp the market dynamics, actively turn to the blue ocean, locate customer needs, and create new val. Through the authorization management of large organization teams, Safbon is exploring more abundant whole-process solutions and markets for municipal, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, petrochemical, food, paper-making, printing and dyeing and other industries. At the same time, Safbon focuses on improvement and innovation, and also enriches its product line. With value innovation, the group has been committed to integration and adjustment, flexible application of global resource allocation, power to become an international player.
Looking forward to the New Beginning of 2019, we need all of our departments to work together. Safbon Jiangsu construction, a subsidiary of Safbon, has the municipal general contracting level 1 qualification. Its executive deputy general manager Li Zhijin stressed the importance of safe and civilized construction and cost control and management in the lecture hall. On the other hand, Wang Xianming, vice-president of Safbon operation, shared the relationship between social responsibility and the government of the operation project. Adhering to the company's mission, Safbon never forgets the original intention and knows that the operation project is the forefront of ecological environmental protection. In the monitoring cloud platform of the headquarters, The platform intelligently monitors the process, site, energy consumption and drug consumption of sewage, water supply, seawater desalination, solid waste and natural gas projects. The operation director is responsible for coordinating with the local government and environmental protection bureau to achieve profitability, zero accidents and zero fines.
Sunny Sun, the CFO, put forward the use of financial thinking for enterprise management. The goal is to use real data to speak, optimize the reasonable allocation of funds and resources, ensure the stable operation of the balance of income and expenditure, and achieve the maximum economic benefits, so as to lay a solid foundation for the long-term development of Safbon!
China's economy has turned from a stage of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development, and high-quality development calls for high-quality environmental protection equipment to be put on the market. After the acquisition of Germany's ItN ceramic ultrafiltration membrane and Austria's KWI floating company, Safbon has continuously invested in R&D and innovation of these two world-leading technologies with independent intellectual property rights to improve product performance. Zhang Xinhua, Jiangsu ItN membrane factory deputy director of technology, reported that after being put into production in 2017, the membrane factory in China had successfully launched square hole ceramic flat membrane and was developing pipe membrane and other subdivided products applied in chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Meanwhile, the KWI Jiaxing plant is also about to begin to build.
In the end, George Gu, General manager of ceramic membrane China, and Yao Kun, Safbon marketing director respectively stressed the strong industrial chain and excellent team's key to brand building and the guiding force of market rules. It is the strict indexes of total phosphorus, COD and total nitrogen for the bid-raising and reconstruction of sewage plant, the recharging water of oil and gas field, and the industrial waste water are close to four kinds of water that is the foothold that digs client demand. In 2019, Safbon market sales will follow the 2C target of being close to the market and customers, promote transformation and upgrading, upgrade from equipment product supplier to solution supplier, and finally become the industry leader in the blue sea segment
Jan. 25th, 2019
On January 24th, 2019, the annual water festival of Safbon was grandly held. Safbon Water Service, as a listed private enterprise, has been keeping move forward in the past 24 years. In 2018, we worked together to write down our achievements. In 2019, we will work harder hand in hand to create future brilliance!
Winter means the coming of Spring. On January 9, 2019, the SafBon Group held a three-day global market management and strategy conference for overseas subsidiaries in Klagenfurt, Austria. The theme of the conference was to discuss how the group companies took action to turn to the blue ocean and gain more profits from the globalization strategy. Zhang Chunlin, the chairman of SafBon Group, Le Guoping, Lu Tianyi, and the CEOs of overseas subsidiaries and some middle management personnel attended the meeting.
Constant change and progress are the eternal theme of SafBon. Through the discussion at the meeting, it was further established that all the subsidiaries of Safbon Group will continue to do a good job in building corporate culture and build a vibrant group company through better mutually beneficial cooperation.
Jan. 4th, 2019
Cornerstone laying ceremony of sewage water treatment project for SafBon and Nepal was held successfully in January 3rd 2019 at the capital of Nepal, Katmandu. The ceremony was organized by the owner of sewage water project, Project Implementation Directorate, and SafBon together. The president of Nepal, Mr. K.P.Oil, attended this ceremony with Water Minister (Mrs. Bina Magar), Water Secretary-general (Mr. Gajendra Kumar Thakur) and more than a dozen of national parliamentarians. Mr. President laid the foundation for sewage water treatment project of SafBon by himself, and delivered a brilliant 20-minute speech. He fully affirmed SafBon’s advanced sewage water treatment process used for the project, and praised the hard work of SafBon’s design team and construction team for the project in the early stage.
The sewage water treatment project of Katmandu, which was constructed by SafBon, was financed by the Asian Development Bank, and it was the biggest sewage water treatment (EPC) project in Nepal. This project consisted of three sewage plants including Dhobighat, Kodku and Sallaghari, and the waste water treatment capacity were 37MLD, 17.5MLD and 14.2MLD respectively. It used the advanced active sewage water treatment process, and biogas generated from the process was utilized for power generation. The project is scheduled to be put into operation in November 2019, and will be handed over to owners after 5 years operation. The project will solve the problems of domestic wastewater discharge in Katmandu, change the river water quality in the city and improve the sanitation of the capital. To sum up, it is the important livelihood engineering project in Nepal.
WANG Xian , the CEO of SafBon, attended cornerstone laying ceremony and made a speech as the host of project. Mr. Wang introduced SafBon in Shanghai(Headquarter), Austria, France KWI, Germany ItN and the United States SWT, and also declared that SafBon was an international listed company. He detailed SafBon’s business sectors in engineering design, manufacturing, engineering construction, desalination and so on. Moreover, SafBon’s leading ceramic membrane and air flotation products were introduced as well. Through this project construction, Mr. Wang wishes that more Nepalese will know SafBon and used its advanced water treatment technologies in the other projects.
Dec. 30th,2018
On Dec. 27th, Hilling Chang, the chairman of the SafBon, Guo Huidong, deputy general manager and other leaders attended the meeting to check and accept the sludge thin-layer drying technology and equipment developed by SafBon .The acceptance team is composed of eight experts, including Yang Xiangping, director of China Urban Water Supply and Drainage Association, and Li Yi, deputy director of Beijing General Academy of Political and Engineering Design.
At the meeting, Guo huidong, deputy general manager on behalf of SafBon, reported the self-developed technology of sludge thin layer drying. Wet sludge is in the core equipment, thin layer drying device, which is conducive to improve thermal efficiency and solve the problem of viscous zone in the process of sludge drying.The first phase of sludge drying project of Shanghai Qingpu Town Sewage Treatment Plant, which successfully applied this technology was introduced. The project was put into operation in 2014 and has been running steadily up to now.This project uses the waste heat steam from thermal power plant to dry the wet sludge of moisture content 80% collected by each sewage treatment plant in Qingpu District. The dry sludge with moisture content 30% is dried by the thin layer drying device of sludge and sent to the power plant for combustion and power generation as inferior coal. The purpose of circular economy is achieved.
The expert group highly appraised the equipment, believing that the device has the advantages of small area, low steam consumption, long continuous and stable operation time, realizing the "trinity" disposal mode of sludge treatment, drying and utilization of thermal power plant resources, filling the gap of domestic drying equipment, and having good environmental benefits and economic efficiency.
Dec. 28th, 2018
The 2018 National Seminar on Utilization of Sludge Treatment Products was successfully held on December 27th in Qingpu, Shanghai. The Seminar was hosted by SafBon and Asia Environmental Protection. More than 300 people from the municipal industry from all over the country gathered in Shanghai Qingpu to discuss sludge technology innovation, technical process standards and jointly explore the sludge utilization of “reduction, stabilization, harmlessness, and resource utilization”. For the selection of technical process for sludge treatment, the industry has been unremittingly exploring and practicing, especially exploring green solutions with marketization, specialization and cross-industrialization.
As the host, Mr. Zhang Chunlin, Chairman of SafBon, delivered a welcome speech and reported to the guests on the development and achievements of SafBon. In recent years, SafBon has accelerated the acquisition and integration of overseas high-quality environmental protection companies. The global network has begun to take shape and has gathered a large number of global professionals. Responding to the high-quality development of the market demand for high-quality environmental protection equipment, the SafBon Group leveraged its parent company's investment, design, construction and operation capabilities to develop its subsidiary Germany ItN ceramic flat membranes and Austrian KWI DAF applications in various industries, supporting Chinese manufacturing and accelerating the construction of the entire industry chain.
At the same time, SafBon Vice President Guo Huidong, head of SafBon Solid Waste Department, introduced one of SafBon's solid waste treatment areas: leading technology and excellent cases in sludge treatment. SafBon has the courage to explore in the field of sludge treatment and disposal, and has a complete sludge drying process, which can achieve good environmental and social benefits. The Qingpu District Sludge Drying Plant invested by SafBon has adopted the sludge drying & power cogeneration technology, which uses the thin-layer sludge drying machine independently developed by SafBon. Another case is the Nanxun Sludge Drying and Incineration Plant invested by SafBon, which uses the flue gas generated after incineration of dry sludge to directly dry the wet sludge. The process technology fully meets the purpose of circular economy.
Today, we also welcomed more than 100 guests to visit the Qingpu Sludge Drying Plant. Experts and colleagues have shown great interest and appreciation on the thin-layer sludge dryer technology independently developed by SafBon and the stable operation results in the past four years. They had detailed consultation and enthusiastic discussion. We believe that such activities will definitely promote the world's sludge treatment technology, which will help promote communication and improvement!
The National Seminar on Utilization of Sludge Treatment Products ended successfully in Qingpu, and we would like to thank all of you for coming to the SafBon Night of this conference! This is a successful industry conference, a conference that will continue to open, a conference to resign from the old and welcome the new! The SafBon Night is unforgettable. May we gather again in "Green Qingpu, the city of goodness".