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Industrial Wastewater Projects
SWA has a proven track record in industrial wastewater projects and you’ll find our plant equipment operating in more than twenty countries across the globe, including the Middle East, China and South-East Asia. Our proprietary products set the international benchmark for wastewater treatment equipment. We have the capability to deliver complete turnkey engineering solutions across a wide range of sectors including oil and gas, mining, food, dairy and textiles.
| Year | Country | Customer | Main Contractor | Project Name | Industry | Description |
| 2007 | Australia | Alcoa | SWA Aus | Remelt Plant Upgrade | Aluminium | 4 x 240 m3/h oil separator plate packs |
| 2007 | Oman | Sohar | Alstom | Sohar | Power plant | 60 m3/h CPI oil separator |
| 2007 | Australia | Tallawarra Power | Alstom | Tallawarra | Power plant | 60 m3/h CPI oil separator |
| 2008 | USA | Ecowerks | SWA (Aus) | Ecowerks | Oil recovery plant | 30 m3/h CPI DAF emulsion breaking plant |
| 2007 – 2015 | China | Lee Kum Kee | SWA Aus | Treatment Plant Upgrade | Soy sauce | 8 x 60 m3/h DAF units |
| 2008 | China | Nanhai Textile | SWA China | Upgrade Project | Textile | 40,000 m3/d D&C centralised textile WWTP |
| 2008 | Malaysia | Petronas | SWA Aus | Miri Gas Terminal | Gas terminal | |
| 2008 | Australia | Sydney Water Corp | SWA Aus | St Marys STP | STP | 2 x 200 m3/h DAF WAS sludge thickener upgrade |
| 2008 | Thailand | EGAT | Italthai | Nth Bangkok pp | Power plant | 1 x 70 m3/h CPI oil separator |
| 2009 | Indonesia | BlueScope Steel | Envitech Perkasa | Cilibon | Steel | 10 m3/h DAF |
| 2009 | Australia | Vopak | Bilfinger Berger | Port Botany Terminal | Oil terminal | 120 & 60 m3/h CPI oil separators |
| 2009 | New Zealand | Origin Energy | Macsep | Kupe Oil Terminal | Oil terminal | 40 m3/h oil separator |
| 2009 | New Zealand | Fonterra | Murdoch | Longburn | Dairy | 250 m3/h DAF plant |
| 2009 | New Zealand | Fonterra | Eltham | Dairy | 40 m3/h DAF plant | |
| 2009 | Australia | Buderim Ginger | SWA Aus | WWTP Upgrade | Ginger | 20 m3/h DAF plant |
| 2010 | Australia | King Island Dairy | SWA Aus | KID | Cheese | 40 m3/h DAF plant |
| 2010 | New Zealand | Shell Todd | Macsep | Paratutu | Oil terminal | 50 m3/h CPI oil separator |
| 2011 | Malaysia | Pepsi Cola | Veolia | WWTP Upgrade | Beverage | 40 m3/h DAF plant |
| 2011 | Indonesia | Pertamina | Envitech | Oil refinery | 2 x 90 m3/h DAF units | |
| 2011 | Australia | Rio Tinto | SWA Aus | Kestrel Mine | Mine | 75 m3/h CPI oil separator |
| 2012 | Thailand | SCG Chemicals | SCG | Map Ta Phut Olefins Plant | Petro-chemical | 40 m3/h CPI oil separator & DAF plant |
| 2012 | Singapore | Alstom | Banyan PP | Power plant | 150 m3/h CPI oil separator | |
| 2012 | Australia | Visy | IH2OM | Yatala Can Factory | Can factory | 20 m3/h DAF plant |
| 2013 | Indonesia | Honda | Envitech | Treatment Plant Upgrade | Automobiles | 1 x 30 m3/h DAF plant |
| 2013 | Thailand | EGAT | Thai Shinryo | BIC 1 | Power plant | 1 x 20 m3/h CPI oil separator |
| 2013 | UAE | ENOC | Audex | Treatment Plant | Oil terminal | 50 m3/h CPI oil separator – design, supply, test & commission |
| 2014 | Sri Lanka | Fonterra | Fonterra | Dairy | 15 m3/h DAF plant | |
| 2014 | Australia | AB Mauri | SWA Aus | AB Mauri | Yeast plant | 50 m3/h DAF plant |
| 2015 | Indonesia | Shell Oil | JGC | Oil blending | 60 m3/h CPI oil separator & GAC filter | |
| 2015 | Thailand | EGAT | Demco | Chana | Power plant | 1 x 145 m3/h CPI oil separator |
| 2016 | New Zealand | Allied Faxi | SWA | Treatment Plant | Ice cream | 1 x 20 m3/h chemical DAF plant |
| 2017 | New Zealand | Tatua Dairy | SWA | Treatment Plant | Dairy | 1 x 200 m3/h chemical DAF plant |
| 2018 | Malaysia | Dialog | SWA Water Malaysia | Pengerang PDT2 | Oil terminal | 600 m3/d WWTP – 2 x 110 m3/h CPI oil separators; 2 x 30 m3/h DAF units; biological treatment; GAC filters; sludge dewatering. |
| 2018 | Australia | Fonterra | SWA | Fonterra Stanhope | Cheese Factory | 6,000 m3/d D&C Turnkey Chemical DAF Plant |
| 2018 | Australia | Orora | SWA | Orora Revesby | Aluminium Can Manufacture | 15 m3/h DAF Plant |
| 2018 | Australia | Fresh Dairy One | DVO | Moxey Farms | Intensive Cow Farm | 50 m3/h DAF Thickener Plant |
| 2018 | Indonesia | PT Freeport | SWA | Freeport | Gold mine | 2 x 75 m3/h Oil Separators |
| 2019 | Indonesia | PT Freeport | SWA | Freeport | Gold mine | 1 x 75 m3/h Oil Separator |
| 2019 | Australia | Inghams | SWA | Inghams Ingleburn | Poultry Processing | 20 m3/h D&C DAF Plant |
| 2019 | Australia | HMAS Cerberus | Waterform | Fire Training Plant | Navy Fire Training | 25 m3/h DAF Plant |
| 2020 | Australia | Mirvac | Tradewise | Harbour Centre | Restaurants & Food Outlets | 50 m3/h DAF Plant |
| 2020 | Vietnam | Long Son Refinery | Samsung/SWA Malaysia | Long Son Refinery | Oil Refinery | 15 m3/h DAF Plant |
| 2020 | Thailand | Lenzing | U-Chem | T3 Project | Paper Plant | 10 kg/h Polymer Blending & Dosing Plant |
| 2020 | Australia | Vopak | Dialog | Vopak B4 Extension | Oil Terminal | 100 m3/h CPI Oil Separator |
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| Name | Shell Monas Lube Oil Blending Plant | Name | King Island Dairy | Name | Lee Kum Kee | ||
| Country | Indonesia | Country | Australia | Country | China | ||
| Year | 2015 | Year | 2010 | Year | 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014 | ||
| Description | SWA 60 m3/h CPI Oil Separator. Tested at 10,000 mg/l feed oil; Outlet oil <1 mg/l (99.99% recovery) |
Description | Turnkey design & construct WWTP for 350 m3/d Cheese plant – chemical DAF Plant | Description | World’s largest Soy Sauce manufacturer. SWA supplied 2, then 4, then 6 then 8 x 60 m3/h DAF Units | ||
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| Name | Fujairah Oil Terminal FZC | Name | Harbourside Shopping Centre | Name | Inghams Poultry | ||
| Country | United Arab Emirates | Country | Australia | Country | Australia | ||
| Year | 2014 | Year | 2020 | Year | 2020 | ||
| Description | SWA 50 m3/h EX rated integrated CPI Oil Separator & DAF unit. Tested 2,000 mg/l feed oil; outlet oil < 1 mg/l | Description | SWA 50 m3/h DAF Plant for commercial food outlets, Darling Harbour, Sydney. | Description | SWA designed and constructed a 20 m3/h DAF treatment plant. The treatment process included screen, Balance Tank, pH control, coagulation, flocculation, DAF, Neutralisation, sewer discharge. | ||
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| Name | PT Freeport Indonesia | Name | Fonterra Australia | Name | Fresh Dairy One | ||
| Country | Indonesia | Country | Australia | Country | Australia | ||
| Year | 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019 | Year | 2018/2019 | Year | 2019 | ||
| Description | SWA has supplied several 75 m3/h CPI Oil Separators for various locations within the Freeport mine sites. | Description | SWA designed and constructed a 6,000 m3/d (250 m3/h) DAF treatment plant for the Fonterra dairy factory at Stanhope, Victoria. | Description | SWA 50 m3/h Sludge Thickening style DAF Unit, incorporating polymer flocculation for a 10,000 cow intensive milk farm. Manure collected from the barns and milking sheds is treated by anaerobic digestion. The waste sludge phase from the digestors is pumped to a SWA DAF Thickener. The DAFT Sludge is dewatered using sludge dewatering screw presses. | ||
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| Name | PTTGC I4 Olefin Plant | Name | A B Mauri | Name | Permanis Sdn Bhd (Pepsi Cola) | ||
| Country | Thailand | Country | Australia | Country | Malaysia | ||
| Year | 2015/2016 | Year | 2014/2015 | Year | 2012 | ||
| Description | This project was awarded by UChem to SWA for the design, supply & commissioning of a 50 m3/h CPI Oil Separator & a 50 m3/h Dissolved Air Flotation Unit. Hazardous rated Class 1 Div 2 Group C&D T3. | Description | This project was awarded to SWA for the design, manufacture, supply, installation & commissioning of a 50 m3/h DAF plant with chemical neutralisation, coagulation & flocculation to separate and remove mixed liquor suspended solids from a SBR Biological Treatment Plant. | Description | Project awarded by Veolia Malaysia for 1 x SWA 30 m3/h DAFT Sludge Thickener (counter-current style) for clarification and thickening of mixed liquor from biological aeration tank. | ||
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| Name | Malaysian Airports (MAHB) – KLIA Terminal 2 | Name | Banyan Power Station | Name | Rio Tinto Kestrel Mine, Qld | ||
| Country | Malaysia | Country | Singapore | Country | Australia | ||
| Year | 2012/2013 | Year | 2012 | Year | 2011 | ||
| Description | This project was awarded by MAHB to SWA Water Malaysia Award Consortium JV for the design, manufacture, supply, construction, installation, testing and commissioning of 10 x oil separator sites for flow rates from 1,368 m3/h to 9,900 m3/h with a combined flowrate of 61,000 m3/h. Believed to be the largest Oil Separators in the world. | Description | Awarded by Alstom Asia Pacific to SWA for the supply of a 150 m3/h SWA CPI Oil Separator. | Description | Awarded to SWA by Farrelly Constructions for 1 x SWA 75 m3/h CPI Oil Separator. Includes integral waste oil Tank. | ||
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| Name | Pertamina – Cilacap Refinery | Name | SCG Chemicals – Map Ta Phut Olefins Plant | Name | North Bangkok Power Station | ||
| Country | Indonesia | Country | Thailand | Country | Thailand | ||
| Year | 2011/2012 | Year | 2011/2013 | Year | 2008 | ||
| Description | Awarded to SWA by PT Envitech Perkasa, SWA supplied and commissioned 2 x 90 m3/h DAF Units, EX rated. | Description | SCG contracted SWA to supply 1 x SWA 40 m3/h EXDE rated DGF Dissolved Gas Flotation Unit using nitrogen gas. | Description | Awarded by Italthai to SWA for 1 x SWA 70 m3/h CPI Oil Separator. | ||
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| Name | Ecowerks LLC, Texas | Name | Nanhai Textile Treatment Plant | Name | Petronas Carigali – Miri Crude Oil Terminal | ||
| Country | USA | Country | China | Country | Malaysia | ||
| Year | 2007/2008 | Year | 2006 – 2008 | Year | 2007/2008 | ||
| Description | Ecowerks operates a centralised waste water treatment facility catering to the oil industry; receiving, separating oils and sludge and treating oily effluent & emulsions to a city sewer quality. The treatment plant was designed, manufactured, installed, tested & commissioned by SWA. | Description | SWA designed & constructed this 40,000 m3/d centralised WWTP for 30 textile companies Industrial Estate. The treatment process included screening, Balance Tank, chemical treatment, clarification, biological aeration & secondary clarification, DAF sludge thickeners, sludge dewatering. | Description | The project involved the conversion of two existing bulk storage tanks 36m dia. X 10m high to primary oil separator tanks, operating at a flow rate of 36, 000 m3/d. The project involved detailed design, CFD analysis (2D & 3D modelling), manufacture of all tank internals including 600 mm dia. Inlet pipe, oil coalescer vessel, baffles, weir troughs, oil skimmers and internal and external pipe work, supervision and inspection of subcontract installation works, testing and commissioning. In all, more than 100 tonnes of equipment requiring 7 x 40 ft containers was manufactured by SWA at its Sydney factory. | ||
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| Name | Sydney Water Corporation | Name | Vopak Oil Terminal – Sydney | Name | Origin Energy NZ | ||
| Country | Australia | Country | Australia | Country | New Zealand | ||
| Year | 2008 | Year | 2008/2009 | Year | 2009 | ||
| Description | Sydney Water Corporation engaged SWA to overhaul to large sludge Thickening DAFT Units at the St Marys STP. Feed TSS: 8,860 mg/l; Outlet TSS 62 MG/L (99.3% capture rate); Sludge solids content 3.4 – 6.0%. No polymer. |
Description | SWA was engaged to manufacture and supply a 120 m3/h CPI Oil Separator and activated carbon filters. | Description | SWA supplied 1 x SWA 40 m3/h CPI Oil Separator in SS304 with an integral waste oil tank; designed to NZ Seismic Code. | ||
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| Name | Alcoa Australia – Yennora Casting Plant, Sydney | Name | Fonterra Co-operative Co, Longburn, Palmerston North | Name | Panyu EPB – Centralised Textile WWTP | ||
| Country | Australia | Country | New Zealand | Country | China | ||
| Year | 2007 – 2012 | Year | 2009 – 2010 | Year | 2006 – 2007 | ||
| Description | Alcoa has an aluminium casting plant at Yennora in Sydney. The cooling water system is a recycled water system which has die release oil in it, hence the system has 4 bays each with a 240 m3/h plate pack for oil separation. The original FRP packs were supplied in 1978. Alcoa engaged SWA to replace the defunct plate packs with stainless steel packs. | Description | SWA supplied a 250 m3/h co-current DAF unit in SS304. Using acid coagulation only, this plant achieves TSS 90% reduction; Fats 97% reduction; BOD 67% reduction & TKN 62% reduction. The DAF float varies 11.2 – 17.3% solids content; av 15.0%. |
Description | This was a D&C contract for an upgrade to an existing WWTP Industrial Estate for 20 textile companies. The treatment process included screening, pump well, chemical flocculation for colour removal & COD, SS and turbidity reduction, primary clarifiers, biological treatment, 1 x 200 m3/h DAF sludge thickeners & 2 x 2m wide belt filters. Control system using PLC & SCADA. The upgrade included increasing the plant capacity from 15,000 m3/d to 30,000 m3/d, inlet screening, DAF unit, addition of new 10,000 m3/d BBR, including design, manufacture, construction, testing & commissioning while keeping the existing plant fully operational on a 24/7 basis. | ||