Presentation of step feed plant – Melbourne Water Eastern Treatment Plant Australia

1) Step Feed Configuration Overview – we can use Antipolo design to discuss here, highlight
the advantages of the technology. (Check with Carmmel if she thinks we should include in
our presentation again) – Evette
 Lower consumption of External Carbon Source
 Operational flexibility
 Having a higher MLSS compared to the conventional
 Shock loading will not be a problem since the flow is introduced along different
points.

2) Prepare a table of step feed plants that we know of whether in Australia or around the world.
Table should include name of plant, capacity, country & location. Evette & Tung
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3) Melbourne Water – Eastern Treatment Plant (ETP). Website: www.melbournewater.com.au

a. Plant location – provide three arial views: 1- showing location in which state of Aus,
2- showing location of site with respect to Melbourne city, 3 – an arial view of the
site. Evette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00YBmqTa8Bs – Aerial View

b. History of ETP: when it was built, initial treatment process and how it was
progressively upgrade to current state (See if we can find these information on the
internet) Evette & Tung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5eHZTt1i8 – tertiary upgrade
https://www.water-technology.net/projects/eastern-treatment-plant-tertiary-upgrade-
project-melbourne/
c. ETP information (see how much info we can get on the internet)
i. Capacity, raw influent quality – Evette

“The upgraded plant is capable of disinfecting 380 million litres of tertiary

treated effluent flows on average and 700 million litres at its peak.” -
https://www.water-technology.net/projects/eastern-treatment-plant-tertiary-
upgrade-project-melbourne/#:~:text=Treatment%20Capacity&text=The
%20Eastern%20Treatment%20Plant%20is,million%20litres%20at%20its
%20peak.

ii. Process flow diagram and description of process units (No of trains, reactor
sizes, anoxic volume, influent split ratio, sludge age, operating MLSS etc.–
Evette & Tung
 https://www.melbournewater.com.au/media/4651/download

https://www.melbournewater.com.au/sites/default/files/etp_process_large.jpg

https://www.melbournewater.com.au/water-data-and-education/water-facts-
and-history/where-your-sewage-goes/eastern-treatment-plant

iii. Effluent water quality (Provides graphs of certain parameters) Evette & Tung
iv. Effluent discharge and reuse (show some diagram on the discharge outfall)
Tung
v. Site layout (use Google map or Google Earth) and Youtube video of ETP –
Evette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00YBmqTa8Bs – Aerial View

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5eHZTt1i8 – tertiary upgrade

vi. Site photos – Tung & Evette

4) Discussion