Plopeni WWTP, Prahova County, Romania

Project Info

  • Completion Date

    Completed: July 2012

  • Category

    Wastewater Treatment

Project description


Within this contract, our team elaborated full technical proposal for Plopeni city (Prahova county, Romania) wastewater treatment plant covering preliminary treatment, advanced biological treatment and sludge treatment up to 25% solids content.

The plant was designed for a dry weather maximum daily flowrate of 11.807,0 m3/day serving an equivalent population of 35.000 PE.

The plant’s treatment scheme comprised:

  • wastewater treatment: preliminary treatment (screening, grit and grease removal, septic sludge acceptance station), advanced biological treatment with sludge stabilization (simultaneous denitrification for biological nitrogen removal, enhanced phosphorus biological removal), chemical phosphorous removal
  • sludge treatment: excess sludge gravity thickening, thickened sludge mechanical dewatering, and dewatered sludge storage
  • others: technological air treatment

The following disciplines were covered within the proposal:

  • Process
  • Hydraulics
  • Mechanical
  • Structural
  • Architectural
  • Electrical
  • Instrumentation, control and automation (SCADA)
  • Roads, platforms and alleys
  • Landscaping
  • HVAC