BioShaft Water Tech Inc of the US has received a purchase order for a 132,100 gpd wastewater treatment plant in Saudi Arabia. The end user is the Bin Ban Camp, located in the King Abdullah Financial District. The order came through Water Treatment Masters, a BioShaft agent located in Jeddah. Califormia-based BioShaft announced the Saudi order during a corporate update on activities for the fourth quarter of 2011. The company revealed other orders it had won including one from IHF&D, a contracting company located in Denver, Colorado (US), which issued a purchase order to BioShaft for the upgrade of an existing wastewater treatment plant. The expansion will allow the plant to handle a population of up to 3,000 people. The end user is the ANA National Military Hospital (NMH) in Kabul, Afghanistan. Prior to the order, the BioShaft design was cleared for construction by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The company stresses that its plants have many benefits over traditional wastewater treatment systems. Some of these benefits include: almost no odour, minimal sludge, lower energy consumption, and significantly lesser land requirements. The company utilises its patented Hans BioShaft System Process, an advanced Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) process developed and patented by Dr Hans Badreddine, a former professor of industrial chemicals at Aachen University, Germany.
