A sewage treatment plant needs care and maintenance more than your car or any other electro-mechanical appliance, let me start with a comparison with your car. Usually, a car requires service every 10,000 km, and during the service, the oil and filters are replaced, while it may require replacement of breaks and other wear and tear parts after 50,000 and 100,000 km of running. Now let us compare the same with a sewage treatment plant.
A sewage treatment plant operates nonstop 24/7 and with a running time equivalent to that of a car engine, the STP would have covered 720- 1000 km/day. STP covers 10,000 km in 10- 15 days of operation and reaches 100,000 km equivalent of operation in 150 days or 4 months. A car owner would have by this time spent a lot of money on the maintenance of his/her car and even thinking of selling the car for a new car replacement.
So, investing in high-quality equipment and its timely service and maintenance is the key to the trouble-free operation of an STP. The blowers and pumps would run for 20,000 hours before they needed an overhaul or replacement. A well-maintained plant would need an overhaul while in a plant with poor service, the need for repair or replacement of pumps and blowers may arise within a couple of years into operation.
EcoTec chooses all the components and equipment that are of,
1. High quality
2. Long life
3. Easy to service
Our operation and service manual gives a full description of preventive maintenance needed and the same is programmed into our controller where alarms are given by the control when the plant is nearing its preventive maintenance needs.
EcoTec also provides comprehensive service and maintenance schemes to its plants to ensure all EcoSBR plants run trouble-free at all times.
Apart from this the EcoSBR controller monitors the plant and logs all abnormal events. This gives the client and the service provider an early warning on the need for the replacement of wear and tear parts or even a plan for plant renovation.
The lifetime of a well-functioning STP is about 10 years and it is advisable to go for a complete revamp of an STP once in 10 years as this would be more cost-effective than to replace only failing components.