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NSL OilChem Waste Management has officially opened its second industrial wastewater treatment plant designed to treat a wide spectrum of industrial wastewater NSL OilChem Waste Management Officially Opens $40 million Industrial Wastewater Treatment Complex NSL OILCHEM WASTE MANAGEMENT PTE LTD, the environmental services arm of NSL Ltd, has officially opened a brand-new industrial wastewater treatment plant designed to treat a wide spectrum of industrial wastewater from industries such as petrochemicals, pharmaceutical, and automotive. To meet the challenges of industrial wastewater management in a more effective manner, NSL OilChem Waste Management collaborates closely on the R&D front with the Nanyang Environmental and Water Resources Institute at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as well as other academic institutions. The $40 million wastewater treatment complex is the company’s second treatment plant and has a capacity of 1000 cubic metres per day – one of the largest in Singapore. “The NSL OilChem Waste Management’s industrial wastewater treatment complex will be an important facility in Singapore’s growing chemicals industry where there is demand for increasingly challenging industrial wastewater treatment,” said Dr Low Chin Nam, executive director of NSL Ltd. Located in Tuas, the wastewater treatment complex underscores the company’s commitment in Research and Development (R&D) capabilities to deploy state-of-the-art technology to address complex wastewater issues. The plant is able to treat two types of industrial wastewater: • Wastewater with high mineral content (TDS), high chemicals content (COD) from pharmaceutical, petrochemical, chemical and automotive industries • Wastewater with high biological oxygen demand (BOD) from the food and beverages industry With a robust R&D panel set to find innovative technologies to treat challenging trade effluents and a well-equipped laboratory that can conduct a range of treatability studies, NSL OilChem Waste Management is confident that is can tailor optimum and cost-effective wastewater treatment solutions that are in line with the Public Utilities Board (PUB)’s environmentally sustainable practices. Dr Low elaborated, “We collect wastewater from different industries, the characteristics of this wastewater are highly variable and it is thus our challenge to ensure its treatability in our process to, most importantly, meet PUB discharge requirements.” Jeffrey Fung, chief executive officer of NSL OilChem Waste Management, added, “To run this plant is not easy, we spend a lot of time thinking about treatability, cost sustainability, safety and compliance issues. The hardware is all in place, the next challenge is people – where do we find the people who can run this plant? The most important thing we look for is the passion in the job - if you come in just to do a job and earn an income, this is not the place for that.” WWA Water & Wastewater Asia • September / October 2019
NEWS | 7 Raffles Institution hosts First Youths’ Symposium on Sustainable Water Future Hosted by Raffles Institution (RI) and supported by PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, the Singapore Youth Water Conference (SYWC) is the first student-oriented symposium focused on the topic of water. The conference aimed to create a deeper awareness and knowledge of water security and sustainability issues in youth aged 15 to 18 years old, and was attended by over 200 students from 11 schools. With a theme of “The Future of Water”, the SYWC was also organised as a follow-up to this year’s Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) Spotlight 2019 event that was organised in partnership with Ecosperity Week, to encourage youths to continue the dialogue from SIWW and share their thoughts on the pressing challenges faced by the water industry today and in the future. In addition to the conference, students from various schools including Hwa Chong Institution and Nanyang Polytechnic had the chance to exhibit their solutions to water challenges and sharing of water conservation messages, such as the use of environmentally-friendly hydrogels for stormwater management, synthesising biochar from plants to remove common pollutants in wastewater, and educating their peers on the water treatment process through a fun card game. Highlights of the students’ solution exhibit included a study conducted by RI students Liu Kaizhong, Melvin Loh, Bek Ming Huan, Justyn Lae and Yeo Eng Xuan, on the effects that laccase enzymes produced by the tree oyster mushroom (Pleurotus Ostreatus) could have on the degradation of textile dyes, and further effects on chemical oxygen demand levels. The study Students Choy Xin Yun, Vaishaanth Nagaraj and Liao Xinglin at the Singapore Science & Engineering Fair (SSEF) found that laccase enzymes were a more and surface area, and was more effective viable, cost-effective method that could be in removing heavy metal ions from water as deployed by less developed countries. compared to raw SMC, which highlighted strong potential for commercial use. The students explained, “We wanted to focus on this because we wanted to target LDCs – Explained Nagaraj, “Heavy metal ions less developed countries. Many people focus have a harmful effect on the human body. on using more expensive technologies and What we’re trying to do in our project is we’re trying to find a cheaper method for this.” discover and synthesise a material that is effective in removing these heavy metal Another study that attracted a high level ions from water, so this water is now of interest was conducted by RI students safe for human consumption.” Choy Xin Yun, Liao Xinglin and Vaishaanth Nagaraj. The group explored the efficiency His groupmate Liao added, “In the end, this is of different types of biochar produced not just an academic project, it’s something from spent mushroom compost (SMC) in we want to commercialise. Our scope is not removing heavy metal ions such as lead and just in Singapore, it can go overseas – in other copper from water. The group found that countries, this will see lots of interest.” WWA all SMC biochar had higher pore density Water & Wastewater Asia • September / October 2019
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