Sustainable Water Management

Mission - Vision - Values

Grey Water

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Sustainable Development Grey Water

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Our VisionOur VISION consists on providing a solution to a true modern-day dilemma – the shortage of safe usable water. The WHO predicts that towards half of this century 4 billion of human – almost two thirds of the world population – will suffer a severe shortage of fresh water.

Our VALUES are sustainability, innovation, quality and the protection of our planet´s resources.

Our Values

HBiO RETO XXI is a company founded in Bilbao in 2007, in the water treatment sector.

We are focused on the design, the setting up and the maintenance of the HBiO®´s water regenerators. In addition we offer environmental consultancy services and we help our costumers finding external financing.

HBiO® with the collaboration of the technological center GAIKER, has developed a graywater regeneration system, it reduces the water consumption up to 50% with a minimum energetic cost. We are pioneer in hydrological resources preservation and always with the same premise “GUARANTEE THE QUALITY OF WATER”.

Our MissionOur MISION is even more than designing and setting up the graywater regenerator, it is certifying the quality of the water with an online control giving response in real time.

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Greywater

What does grey water reuse means?

It means treating water for a future reuse like irrigation or flushing toilets.

How does HBiO® guarantee the quality of treated water?

In order to guarantee the quality of the w a t e r w e h a v e d e v e l o p e d a technology based on 3 steps. On the first step we filtrate main solids, on the second step both biological and physical treatments are carried out and at last water is disinfected with chlorine residual in the third step. The fact that makes our technology the most suitable, is the elimination of viruses and

bacteria which is guaranteed by HBiO® patent. This is so due to the porosity of the micro/ultrafiltration membranes, w h i c h a v o i d b a c t e r i a s u c h a s n e m a t o d e s a n d c o l i f o r m s f r o m trespassing to the next stage How do we control the water has always top-quality?

HBiO® controls the quality of the water through an ONLINE remote control system. Thanks to this system we are able to inform our customers about the quality of the water at anytime.

Does grey water reuse generate any waste?

HBiO® regeneration systems do not generate mud. Grey water contains organic load and thanks to the MBR

technology HBiO® regenerators do not generate any sludge, mud or disposal.

Other technologies used in waste water treatments generates muds or sludges and requires a treatment from an authorised comapny

G r e y w a t e r o r u s e d w a t e r i s generated by different processes in the buildings such as baths, sinks, laundries, swimming pools, etc.…

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TechnologyTechnology is quality warranty.

TG TankGreywater drops by gravity to the TG tank, where is s to red and beg ins the depuration process. This first step makes the filtration of n a i l s , h a i r a n d o t h e r s u s p e n d e d s o l i d s , decantation of small solids which had trespassed the entrance filter and at last, separation of fats, oils and f o a m s d e r i v e d f r o m biodegradable soaps we used for our daily hygiene. The process includes an automatic and continuous cleaning up of the filter. the innovative HBiO® design, perfomrs all these operations w i t h o u t a n y e l e c t r i c a l consumption.

RBM TankStored grey water is treated with the MBR technology. The use of a combination of the traditional biological depuration system with the cutting edge micro/ultra filtration technology enables a concurrent biological and physical depuration at the same time. Both are essential f o r t h e g r e y w a t e r depuration. We can only guarantee water quality using RBM-MBR technology

RG TankD e p u r a t e d w a t e r i s disinfected by cloration and stored in the RG tank.T h e W H O r e c o m m e n d s coloration as a method of water disinfection. In HBiO we do so because is the only measurable way and has a long-l i fe effects. Others instead (UV or Ozone) have high maintenance costs and d o n o t k e e p w a t e r disinfected in the storage tank.HB iO® inc ludes res idual c h l o r i n e a n d t u r b i d i t y s e n s o r s , m e a s u r i n g c o n t i n u o u s l y a n d guaranteeing 100% of the regenerated water.

Depuration processThe most restrictive parameter on grey water reuse is water quality. This quality depends on the technology used and HBiO® offers the most suitable technology (MBR-RBM), also being the only system to guarantee durable disinfection (residual chlorous acid). Thus, any potential risk for consumers is avoided.

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WarrantyWarranty is HBiO®

RegulationsMBR depuration technology proposed by HBiO® (biological depuration + Micro/Ultrafiltration), guarantees the elimination of bacteria and viruses as a natural process without chemical agents, it accomplishes as well physical and biological parameters requires in the regulation RD 1620/2007 and the directive 91/271/CEE.

ComparativeAs we can observe, only MBR technology c a n a c h i e v e t h e r e q u i r e d q u a l i t y parameters for water reuse in bathrooms and irrigation. Most of the technologies in the m a r k e t c a n n o t g u a r a n t e e t h e s e quality standards as t h e y j u s t c o n s i d e r biological or physical depuration instead of both.

Control

Only MBR-RBM technology with an ONLINE control can guarantiee water quality 24 hours a day.

ConservaciónW a t e r t r e a t m e n t regulation requires a weekly quality control. HBiO® has automatized this and keeps daily records in a database ensuring this way water quality and proving at any t ime h i s tor ica l water quality. In order t o a v o i d p o s s i b l e confusions, in the last process we add a colorant to treated water.

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SustainableDevelopment

The consumer society we live in is responsible for the increase of water demand. Each piece of food we eat has gone through a process chain with high water consumption, industrial processes are also great water consumers and in cities maintenance water is used for street cleaning and for irrigation. Reversing the trend is everybody’s duty.

HBiO® suggests water reuse as a preventive method. When reusing water we are reducing water consumption in nearly 50% and we reduce at the same time ecological impact. Water and energy are closely linked resources, saving water will also let us saving energy.

HBiO® reacts

Adding a reusing process we achieve water sustainable cycle, saving 50% on water consumption and a 25% of reduction on energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

Comparing with desalination these savings can reach up to 50% in water consumtion and a 50% of reduction on energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

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