The deadlines and scale of China’s current Five Year Plan motivated Chinese officials to think outside the box when they planned a system to treat wastewater from service areas along the Hubei Province highway system. They settled on a decentralized wastewater treatment strategy using Fluence technology, specifically the newly unveiled Aspiral™, which was chosen after proving itself in local demonstration plants.
With service areas placed at 50 km intervals across the highway system, the conventional approach would be to try to connect the widely spaced service areas to the nearest wastewater treatment plant, truck the waste out, or even discharge it untreated. The 80-plant project, however, efficiently treats each service area’s wastewater on-site and discharges it into the environment as safe, irrigation-quality effluent, eliminating the need for thousands of kilometers of costly pipelining.
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