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Unifed Background
A strict regulatory environment, and geographical features that include many small, widely separated towns located in fragile environments, lead to the search in Australia for novel, highly effective wastewater treatment systems for its regional areas.
The UniFED technology, which is one of the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly wastewater treatment systems available today, evolved to meet these rigorous requirements.
UniFED has its origins in work done by an Australian state government’s regional wastewater program in the early 1970’s.
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A design, which became known as the Bathurst Box (a deep rectangular basin used as a single-tank activated sludge treatment technology) was the basis for over 120 IDEA type plants in Australia, and later in the Philippines, East Malaysia, New Zealand and the People’s Republic of China.
UniFED was developed from the initial IDEA sequencing batch reactor work, with added biological nutrients removal based on research and field adaptation work initiated by the Cooperative Research Centre for Waste Management and Pollution Control Limited in the mid 1990s. |
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