A municipal wastewater treatment plant in Arkansas was accepting bids for the supply of cationic polymers for sludge dewatering. MWCE is the authorized Solenis sales agent in the Midwest. They performed on site bench testing of Solenis products to determine the lowest cost product per dry ton of cake produced. They also provided samples for full scale trial to demonstrate annualized polymer cost. Solenis was determined the lowest overall bidder and won the recommendation of plant personnel for dewatering business, but MWCE did not stop there with providing value.

The wastewater treatment plant was taking in higher than designed loadings and was struggling with effluent TSS numbers. After a full process evaluation MWCE recommended feeding a low charge cationic polymer for improved solids settleability in final clarifiers. MWCE provided a trial polymer feed system free-of-charge to demonstrate decreased TSS in effluent while properly feeding polymer to the clarifiers. The plant personnel determined the Solenis polymer and polymer feed system was the lowest cost solution to eliminating discharge TSS. MWCE recommended and supplied a new makedown unit with 4-20ma signal for control on the plant’s SCADA.