ATB Water English: Wastewater treatment plants for the tourism industry

Wastewater treatment and recycling in tourism industry

The biggest challenge for a wastewater treatment plant for e.g. a hotel or resort lies in the seasonal fluctuations. Summer or winter operation can lead to considerable stress. Often within a few days. We are dealing with the wastewater of the hotel and the restaurants. In many cases, the issue of water reuse plays a major role. Many holiday resorts are located on islands, in dry areas, or directly at waters. Clean water and an untouched nature are therefore essential requirements for the tourism industry. Therefore you should only hand over your wastewater project to experts. More than 20 years of experience in wastewater treatment plants for hotels, holiday resorts and the catering sector.

Seasonal fluctuations in hotels & resorts require flexible concepts

In this video, you'll learn all about wastewater treatment and recycling for the tourism industry, with a focus on hotels. The biggest challenge for hotel wastewater treatment plants is the mixed composition of the wastewater:

Normal domestic wastewater from hotel operations, "hot" laundry wastewater that flows intermittently into the treatment plant, extremely grease-laden wastewater from the various restaurants, and highly grease-laden emulsified wastewater from the spa area. Extreme fluctuations between the very high volume of wastewater per day on weekends and only a fraction of this during the week, and the large buffer volume that is therefore required - all these challenges can of course be solved with our products.

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100 luxury suites, fitness rooms, therapy and massage rooms, relaxation zones, therapeutic baths, whirlpools, fresh and salt water swimming pools, several restaurants, tennis, boule and croquet courts and a nine hole golf course with putting green and driving range. That such a project produces an enormous quantity of highly loaded wastewater and – with discharge into the municipal sewer network - causes sheer astronomical charges - is absolutely obvious. So we had to have our own wastewater treatment plant!

No sooner said than done! A British company was contacted, tasked and a wastewater treatment plant was built. However, contrary to the intended result, this project almost led to a catastrophe. The plant was neither dimensioned large enough nor did it maintain the treatment values demanded by the authorities. And, worst of all, the stench around the first-class resort was absolutely unbearable; the guests wrinkled their noses and threatened to stay away! Flexible as the passionate Bentley driver is, he then and there investigated a sensible solution to his problem – and, through the recommendation of a maintenance firm in Birmingham, finally came across the British ATB subsidiary ATB Environmental Technologies Ltd. At short notice the engineers from the East Westphalian parent company made their way to England in order – together with their English col-leagues – to assess the situation on the spot. And what they found represented a true challenge to their skills and their creativity.

ATB-Mitarbeiter überprüfen und warten regelmäßig das System, um einen reibungslosen Ablauf des gesamten Geschäftsbetriebes gewährleisten zu können.

The “motley” constitution of the wastewater – normal domestic wastewater from the hotel operation, “hot“ laundry wastewater which flows in surges into the wastewater treatment plant, extremely fatty wastewater from the various restaurants and very greasy, emulsified wastewater from the spa area – as well as their tendency towards the excessive formation of foam, were for all this still the least problem. Even the extreme variations between a wastewater volume of over 1,000 PT per day at the weekends, a fraction of this during the week and the therefore necessarily large buffer volume gave the specialists no worries. Much more it was the existing plastic tanks which made the engineers fume. Mountings for the AQUAMAX^®floats had to be adjusted, a completely new guide mechanism for this had to be developed and many components had to be completely modified in order to be able to realise the assembly of the new plant as quickly as possible. Naturally, the resort operation was to continue running through all this.

While the English colleagues carried out the necessary excavations on site and erected an additional plastic tank for den SBR, in the German works the AQUAMAX^® PROFESSIONAL treatment system for up to 1,000 PT with the necessary modifications and the plant control was built, assembled and subsequently shipped to England. ATB technicians were soon on their way to England and, within only one week, installed the complete plant technology and the control electronics and commissioned the wastewater treatment plant. And following the extremely successful test run they registered a cheerful sigh of relief from the man who has recorded the secret of his success in the book “Take Action” and who lives the famous “from-dishwasher-to-millionaire-myth” daily before our eyes: self-made millionaire Steve Joynes.