Water&Sanitation Africa September/October 2021

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SUPPLY SECURIT Y & DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT

WATER REUSE, the smart way Recycling wastewater can extend water supplies, improve water quality, reduce discharge and disposal costs of wastewater, and save energy. For more than two decades, QFS has been treating municipal wastewater.

Municipal Water Treatment & Re-Use

Desalination & Treatment of Other Water Sources

Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Operation & Maintenance of Water Treatment Plants

Project Management

Municipal water treatment and reuse QFS designs, installs and commissions wastewater treatment plants. The company can also conduct a performance audit on an existing plant, as well as augment and upgrade low-cost technologies that can provide process enhancements, upgrade capacities, improve recovery rates, lower energy requirements, and remove nutrients.

Industrial wastewater treatment

The recycling of industrial waste streams is gaining popularity, as the price of raw water and discharge of untreated effluent rise. QFS’s wastewater treatment plants can be semi-or fully automated. This can cut the costs of having an ever-present operator and makes fault detection easier. The company has successfully supplied chemical flocculation, clarification, dissolved air flotation, screening, filtration, and oxidation using ozonation and chlorination. The reuse of treated effluent has been achieved by applying the firm’s extensive expertise in membrane separation, specifically ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis.

Desalination and treatment of bore water and water obtained from rivers or streams

water and wastewater treatment plants. These in-house experts can assess the design capability of a plant and check this against a performance assessment by visual and instrument checks, as well as monitoring and collating available data.

Training for operational staff safety

The provision of both initial and ongoing training for operators and staff of a plant is an essential service. With the need to make the most of scarce capital resources, it has become necessary to place increased stress on facility operations, requiring a higher degree of operator knowledge and skills.

Project management

By using Microsoft Project, QFS’s project managers can keep clients informed around the tasks currently under way. The company’s project managers appreciate the need for compromise in the project development process by a multidisciplined team and are capable of driving the project on a correct course having defined the constraints. QFS takes into account the shift towards turnkey project management as an important factor in cost and risk minimisation.

Due to the team’s experience and skills in membrane treatment processes, QFS can offer seawater desalination services, as well as the design of facilities for the treatment of bore water, or water from rivers and streams that requires colloidal particle removal and disinfection. QFS can also treat water for drinking purposes and reuse.

Operation and maintenance of water treatment plants Training for Operational Staff is Key

QFS provides an operation and maintenance optimisation service to industry through the experience of its engineers and technical officers who have commissioned, operated and maintained

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Pump shafts and flow measurement

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page 49

Digitalisation makes a huge difference in the water sector

5min
pages 44-45

Pressure control to fight water shortages in Eastern Cape

5min
pages 38-39

Remote monitoring for water and wastewater plants

3min
pages 46-47

Easy-to-assemble water storage tanks

1min
page 37

A behavioural response to the water crisis

5min
pages 32-33

Sitting on the horns of a dilemma

7min
pages 23-25

Deviation from standard designs creates a durable reservoir

8min
pages 34-36

Water stewardship gives mines the broader view

4min
pages 30-31

Highs in a year of lows – Umgeni Water delivers

5min
pages 26-27

Sustainability-linked bond for Rand Water

1min
page 29

Magalies Water poised for next phase of growth

3min
page 28

Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase II: An update

4min
pages 20-22

The business of water

11min
pages 14-18

Water reuse, the smart way

2min
page 19

Chair’s comment

2min
page 8

CEO’s comment

2min
page 7

Water resource management and the water crisis

4min
pages 9-11

WRD

2min
page 13

Training

3min
page 12

Editor’s comment

4min
pages 5-6
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