Waste and Wastewater Management

The waste and wastewater management industry is key to meeting European sustainability targets. As legislation tightens and technology advances, we can aim for a zero-waste future.

This industry encompasses a series of processes:

• Collecting, sorting, and storing waste.
• Composting green waste and upcycling it into biogas.
• Recycling plastics, metals, and batteries.
• Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs).

Desotec’s sustainable mobile filters provide simple yet effective purification solutions for air emissions, process gases, and industrial wastewater, supporting this industry in controlling odors and achieving its sustainability goals.

For landfill sites and recycling centers, keeping air fresh is a top priority. Desotec makes it easy, with modular filtration setups adapted to your needs.

Our filters protect human health and the environment by treating volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Many of these VOCs are also foul-smelling, as are emissions from WWTPs, which contain mercaptans, hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), and ammonia (NH3). Activated carbon filtration can remove all these components, thus keeping the air safe and fresh for workers and area residents.

Desotec filters also treat biogas recovered from organic waste. Before biogas is fed into combined heat and power (CHP) engines, our filters remove siloxanes to prevent equipment damage. By eliminating VOCs, terpenes, H₂S, and NH3 from biogas, our activated carbon enable them to be upgraded into biomethane.

Desotec’s sustainable mobile filtration solutions make these processes simple and circular. We take back saturated filters for recycling and install new ones to keep your site functioning smoothly.

Desotec filters remove adsorbable organic halogens (AOX) and reduce chemical oxygen demand (COD) from wastewater. This enables companies to keep natural waterways aerated and healthy and to meet WWTP acceptance limits.

Leachate water from scrapyards and landfill sites contains contaminants such as hydrocarbons from cooling liquids in refrigerators, COD, oil components, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB). Our filtration removes these pollutants to keep soil and groundwater clean.

Our filters also reduce chemical residues and chlorinated cleaning products released during various activities, such as:

• Rinsing waters.
• Preparing plastics for recycling.
• Cleaning storage tanks and production facilities.

Treatment reduces emissions to the limits set by the local WWTP, meaning that wastewater can be safely discharged to the sewer.