What could process intensification do for your wastewater treatment plant?

Small footprint - big impact 

Operating wastewater facilities today requires balancing higher operational loads and stricter discharge limits with the need to keep footprints small, budgets tight, and energy consumption low.

Facility owners and operators regularly face overlapping challenges:
🔷 Growing communities requiring rapid capacity expansion
🔷 Ageing facilities that need simple and cost-effective modernisation
🔷 Plants with land constraints where physical expansion is impossible
🔷 Strict environmental targets, such as the EU Directive 2024/3019
🔷 The demand for energy neutrality and greenhouse gas mitigation

Whether you are managing existing facilities or planning to build a new treatment plant, biological wastewater process intensification offers a smarter, more sustainable approach. Using advanced biological processes you can maximise wastewater treatment performance and efficiency.

Upgrading your bio-process enables your plant to improve nutrient removal and operate efficiently without expanding your current physical footprint.

  • For existing sites: You can unlock up to 50% more treatment capacity and handle higher loads without building costly new tanks.

  • For greenfield sites: You can design an ultra-compact facility, significantly reducing construction costs and your long-term carbon footprint.

Take a closer look at process intensification

Want to learn more about how these technologies can transform your plant? Watch our 2-minute video and download the complete Biological Wastewater Process Intensification brochure to discover how to save money and space on your next upgrade.

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Technologies to upgrade your plant

No two wastewater projects are the same, which is why Veolia offers a versatile portfolio of technology platforms to address your unique treatment challenges:

AnoxKaldnes* MBBR (Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor)

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A modular and flexible biofilm solution that offers resilient, low-maintenance removal of carbon, ammonia, or nitrogen in a highly compact footprint.

ZeeLung* MABR (Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor)

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Cassettes drop directly into existing tanks to unlock up to 50% more capacity without new civil works and up to 75% aeration energy savings.

ZeeWeed* MBR (Membrane Bioreactor)

 

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Replaces large secondary clarifiers with advanced membrane filtration and delivers superior-quality, reuse-ready effluent. 

Biostyr* BAF (Biological Aerated Filter) 

 

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Combines biological treatment and filtration into one ultra-compact stage, completely eliminating the need for clarifiers.

*Trademark of Veolia; may be registered in one or more countries.

Find the right fit for your plant

Selecting the right technology requires carefully assessing your existing assets, treatment limitations, and project timelines. Let Veolia’s team of experts help you design the optimal solution to make your wastewater treatment more efficient, affordable, and resilient.