FCC ÁMBITO – Case Study | Condorchem Enviro Solutions

Project details

Client: Fcc Ámbito (CTR Aldeanueva)
Year: 2013
Location: La Rioja, Spain
Sector: MSW landfills, Waste management, Container recycling, PET recycling and biogas plants
Division: Industrial wastewater

Project description

FCC Ámbito is part of the FCC Group, and is the leading company in Spain and Portugal in the management of commercial waste, by-product recovery and soil decontamination, with a strong presence in the USA.

Previously, other projects were carried out for FCC Ámbito:

2004: BIOCARB biological treatment plant for FCC ÁMBITO (formerly TPA) in the metropolitan area of Madrid to add to its water treatment plant from the maintenance hangars at Barajas airport.
2013: Physicochemical treatment plant for FCC ÁMBITO in Tarragona, to treat 17 m3/day of wash water from MSW collection trucks.

Request: The products to be treated in the evaporation plant are cutting fluids and water containing hydrocarbons. The facility to treat the aforementioned waste must have a treatment capacity of 1000 L/hour, 24 hours a day. To conform to specific and restrictive discharge limits stipulated by local laws.

Solution: Complete treatment plant with preliminary physico-chemical system phase + main phase with ENVIDEST MVR FC 1500 vacuum evaporator + later refining phase using BIOCARB biological system + peripherals.