Image courtesy stevendraper/polepics ©2010.
Picton based photographer Steven Draper captured this image of the “Honey Monster”. It is part of the $29 million dollar upgrade project at Picton’s Church Street Waste Water Treatment Plant.
As reported by www.countylive.ca, “The project included the new compact septage-receiving unit and equalization tank to improve septage receiving and treatment efficiency, and new measures to reduce energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
The final product - Class A biosolids - washed, cleaned, dried and ready
For several years, local Michigan municipalities were over-loaded with septage disposal issues and it was difficult for private pumpers to offload as land-application of septage became illegal. So John Campbell, founder of Big Fish Environmental and a 29 year veteran of septic tank pumping, started developing a unique and efficient septage receiving and treatment plant design.
Campbell reviewed several septage receiving units from other manufactures before choosing the Honey Monster® Septage Receiving System from JWC Environmental in Costa Mesa, CA. “The hair removal in the auger portion of the Honey Monster resulted in virtually no downstream clogging,” said Campbell. “The screening ability also made our homogenizing process more consistent per slurry load.” (more…)
The Honey Monster at the Smiths Creek Landfill screens the flow and removes trash before septage is allowed to enter the bioreactor portion of the landfill.
Researchers in Michigan are trying to determine if liquid septage can super-charge the breakdown of garbage inside landfills. Is septage the secret ingredient needed to turn a regular landfill into a bioreactor landfill – producing more biogas and freeing up space for even more garbage?
Starting in 2005 the research team associated with Smiths Creek Landfill in Michigan constructed a septage receiving area to screen septage, store it and then pump it into infiltration pipelines buried in one portion of the landfill. (more…)
The PortaJane™ is the first portable restroom designed specifically “For Women Only.” Unique and easily recognizable, the curvaceous design (patent pending) is available in pink with white trim.
PortaJane – Because John Can’t Aim!
And what do you do when ‘Jane’ gets full? Let JWCE’s ‘Honey Monster’ Septage Receiving Station take over!
Congress and the Administration are anxious to put Americans back to work with the economic stimulus package and will allocate $4 billion to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund over two years.
Half of the funding will be spent within 180 days and most States are already approving priority projects; in addition, the second year of stimulus funding is a wide open opportunity to apply for loans or grants to purchase new equipment and/or make upgrades.
Replacing worn out equipment with JWC technologies is simple, quick and affordable – plus our innovative solutions provide long lasting benefits. In addition, Congress requests 20% of the funding go toward “green” energy and water efficiency projects at wastewater treatment plants.
We’ve highlighted the green benefits associated with each of our technologies –
Short-Term / Immediate Projects
Muffin Monster®
Small Pump Station Grinder
• We do the design work
• Easily bolts onto the wall
• Fits almost any pump station – in-channel or wall mounted
• Effectively grinds rags, trash, wood and debris to protect pumps
• Helps prevent sewage spills
Green benefit: Eliminates trash truck trips to your pump station.
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Channel Monster®
High Flow Pump Station Grinder
• Simple design work
• Little to no civil work
• Fits almost any pump station – in channel or wall mounted.
• Incredibly powerful – grinds rags, trash, plastics, wood and debris to protect pumps
• The large XD 2.5 model is designed to handle first flush storm loading
• Exclusive immersible motor
Green benefit: Helps prevent sewage spills.
Green benefit: Replaces pump station bar screens so trash truck trips can be eliminated. Inorganic solids are removed at the treatment plant headworks
Mid-Term / Efficiency Projects
Auger Monster®
Affordable headworks screen for small and rural facilities
• Install a brand new headworks
• Customized to fit your channel and site
• Little civil work needed
• Clean and compact
• All flow passes through a perforated screen with 1/10”, 1/8” or 1/4” (2, 3 or 6mm) openings
• Excellent washing
• Optional built-in compactor
• Optional built-in bagger
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Auger Monster.
Green benefit: The all-in-one system eliminates separate washer-compactor so it is more energy efficient
Green benefit: Helps eliminate standing water sent to the landfill
Screenings Washer Monster®
The industry’s cleanest screenings
• Retrofits to most existing screens
• Dewaters screenings up to 50% or more
• Reduces volume of screenings up to 80% or more
• Many treatment plants have cut their disposal costs in half or more
• Grinder and wash system help remove more soft organics
• Greatly reduces odors
Green benefit: Helps cut down on trash truck trips to the landfill.
Green benefit: Helps eliminate standing water sent to the landfill.
Honey Monster®
Septage receiving station
• A Honey Monster septage receiving area is a simple and quick project which helps the treatment plant run more efficiently and brings in needed revenue.
• Complete engineered system
• Grinds, screens and compacts unwanted material typically found in septage, such as rags, clothing, trash and plastics
• MonsterTrack controller records the driver, discharge amount, pH and other details to make billing and invoicing easier
Green benefit: Ensures compliance with local septage discharge regulations
Longer-Term / Efficiency Projects
Finescreen Monster®
Monster Separation System®
• Install brand new fine screens
• In most cases retrofits into your existing channel and building
• Low profile and easy to install
• Perforated panels with 1/8” or 1/4” (3 or 6mm) circular openings capture far more trash and small debris than bar screens.
• StapleGuard™ UHMW panels are long lasting and easy to change
• Monster Blind Diagnostic System monitors and controls the system providing detailed flow data and performance information
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Finescreen Monster.
Green benefit: Integrated Screenings Washer Monster® helps clean and compact discharged screenings – at some MSS sites the system captures more trash yet needs fewer trips to the landfill thanks to the SWM.
Green benefit: Fine screens remove most of the trash, plastics and debris ensuring unsightly trash does not end up in the biosolids applied on farm land.
Muffin Monster®
Grease receiving station
• Simple receiving system allows grease to be unloaded into the digesters in order to improve biogas production
• Grinders shred the rags, towels, cuttlery and other trash typically found in restaurant grease
• Heavy objects trap removes rocks and large steel items
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Muffin Monster.
Green benefit: Reuse of a once unwanted product (grease) and increased bio-energy production.
Fish Cleaning Station
Clean, cost effective and reliable
• Turns fish waste into small particles that are easily flushed away.
• Self-contained unit uses a Muffin Monster dual shafted grinder to shred solids, such as fish parts, cans, plates, utensils and fishing lures, preventing clogs and protects downstream equipment.
Green benefit: Small 3HP motor is quick and energy efficient.
The new Honey Monster SRS-XE features an exclusive auger tilt and swivel feature to make access and inspections even easier. The system will be launchedat WEFTEC this year, booth 1831!
The Honey Monster® SRS-XE is an improvement to JWC Environmental’s award winning Honey Monster. This automated Septage Receiving System uses a combination of grinding, solids removal, washing and dewatering to remove unwanted trash before septage is allowed to enter a wastewater treatment plant.
The pivoting auger assembly allows for easy maintenance and minimizes overhead requirements needed to remove the auger from the tank. This allows for easy inspection and removal. It features an Auger Monster® screen with 1/4″ (6mm) perforations that removes far more unwanted solids and trash than bar screens. The patented dual compartment compaction zone provides significant additional dewatering. JWC’s unique dewatering segment prevents material from wrapping around the shaft- a common problem with other receiving stations. Additional filters keep the spray wash systems operating trouble-free, even when reclaimed water is used. (more…)
The Honey Monster's patented compactor produces incredibly clean and dewatered discharged screenings, particularly considering this solid waste was once in septage and Vactor trucks.
In this beautiful Arizona desert town the local wastewater treatment plant uses a Honey Monster septage receiving system to grind, screen and track the septage waste hauled into plant every day. It’s the Monster’s job to protect this plant from harmful rags, rocks and debris.
Averaging 80,000 – 100,000 gallons per day of septage and Vactor truck waste, the treatment plant needed a rugged system to screen out rocks, sand, rags, sticks and other debris typically found in septage.
After two years of full-time operation the Honey Monster is still performing just fine according to the plant manager. He really likes the clean compact discharged screenings which looks very good. He said the Honey Monster’s compaction zone is even performing better than the compactors in the treatment plant’s headworks.
This photo shows the inlet connection on the right, as well as the rock trap and Muffin Monster grinder. The grinder breaks open solids so the Honey Monster's washing system can clean thoroughly clean captured solids. Also shown in the background is the MonsterTrack billing controller - this controller provides security and stores data on each and every load. (credit: Paul Cockrell)
Somewhere between 3 and 5 trucks discharge into the Honey Monster each day – including Vactor truck waste which tends to be thick with heavy solids. The integrated MonsterTrack billing controller tracks the hauler, total number of gallons and the type of waste. The driver receives a printed receipt. This information is then downloaded and sent to the billing office.
To learn more about the Honey Monster septage receiving system please contact your local JWC sales rep.
This is the Honey Monster's main screening tank where solids are captured on a perforated screen with 1/4" (6mm) circular openings. The auger conveys the solids out of the tank, compacts and dewaters them and then drops them into the dumpster ready for landfill disposal. The screened septage then safely flows into the plant through the outlet pipeline show in front (credit: John Martinez)
