GE to deliver MBR equipment to Henriksdal wastewater treatment plant in Sweden

General Electric has secured a contract from Stockholm Vatten for supplying membrane bioreactor (MBR) equipment at the Henriksdal municipal wastewater treatment plant in Sweden.

The equipment will be used for upgrading the facility, which is expected to expand its treatment capacity to 864 million liters of wastewater per day.

Under the terms of the contract, GE will design and supply the total membrane filtration package for the facility along with its servicing.

Stockholm Vatten managing director Gösta Lindh said: "We saw the need to update the current wastewater treatment technology at our Henriksdal facility to meet the demands of a growing population in Stockholm and new environmental requirements set by our governing bodies.

"GE’s LEAPmbr and ZeeWeed technology will help us meet our long-term needs for increased wastewater treatment capacity and will help us do so in a more energy-efficient and cost-effective manner."

GE’s LEAPmbr technology will be implemented at the facility to increase its treatment capacity and to meet the stringent specifications set by Baltic Sea action plan.

Equipped with ZeeWeed 500 membrane ultrafiltration technology, the facility will be able to separate solids, bacteria and viruses from water or wastewater.

The facility presently treats around two thirds of the municipal wastewater in the Swedish city of Stockholm.

Situated inside the rock, the facility poses a challenge since the tunnels have been blasted over 18km deep into the rock structures.

GE expects to complete designing for the project this year, and start delivery of the first shipment from 2016.

Deliveries for the project will be made in multiple stages over a period of four to five years.

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Image: Henriksdal wastewater treatment plant built inside chambers blasted into the rock. Photo: courtesy of General Electric.