Australian Water Management Review Vol 1 2010 | Page 48

Virotec Global Solutions
Ten-years of providing sustainable solutions
to the water industry
Virotec Global Solutions has
been acknowledged as a leader
in implementing sustainable
wastewater solutions for industry
throughout Australia. As part of its
commitment to the “Asia-Pacific
Partnership on Clean Development
and Climate”, the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO) on behalf of
the Australian Federal Government
recently invited Dr Lee Fergusson,
Virotec’s Chief Executive Officer
(pictured bottom left), to document
the ten-year history of the company
by producing a comprehensive
investigative report into the various
industrial and municipal applications
the company has implemented over
the last ten years.
The resulting document highlights the
commercial and technical history of
Virotec, and focuses on the many industrial
applications that Virotec has successfully
undertaken throughout the country. These
include solutions for timber preservation
sites, lead and zinc smelters, gold and
copper mine sites, industrial wastewater
applications and solids treatment
(including filter cake and other sludges
and sediments), highway construction and
infrastructure projects, coal-fired power
plant wastewater, stormwater applications,
municipal wastewater and biosolids
treatment, landfills and many other
industrial applications to treat wastewater
and solids. The full document can be found
at: www.virotec.com/ten_year_case_
history.pdf
Virotec’s reagents form the core of four
waste treatment and environmental
remediation technologies: ViroFlow™
Technology, ViroSoil™ Technology,
ViroMine™ Technology and ViroSewage™
Technology. Virotec technologies have
the ability to bind metal and metalloid
contaminants into non-bio-available
forms, bind nutrients (phosphate and
nitrate) and provide pH buffering.
ViroFlow™ Technology immobilises up
to 99.9% of metals in process waters
and permanently binds metals in solids,
converting hazardous solids into inert
solids which are safe for disposal.
Contaminated water treated with
ViroFlow™ Technology can be recycled
into existing industrial processes thus
reducing water costs. Results have

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shown that ViroFlow™ Technology is
an easy-to-implement, sustainable and
cost-effective method for treating heavy
metals, such as lead, mercury, arsenic
and chromium, acidity, phosphate,
biological oxygen demand, fats, oils and
greases, and a host of other intractable
environmental and industrial problems
in Australia.
Virotec also treats obnoxious odours and
other problems associated with organics
contamination, including hydrocarbons.
For example, Virotec has become the
“go to” company for copper, chromium
and arsenate treatment, having
implemented dozens of projects where
leachable heavy metals were reduced to
below detection limits.
Virotec’s capability in developing
processes to remediate harmful wastes
and solve soil and water contamination
and environmental degradation so
successfully has led us to expand
our portfolio of services to include
environmental assessments where
Virotec analyses the potential impact
that toxic substances can cause to
human health and environment, and site
assessments where Virotec provides a
tailored assessment report to suit your
needs, ranging from simple studies to
more complex and detailed assessments
utilising standards that can be modified to
your requirements.
A range of case studies outlining the
many different types of applications and
their outcomes, along with the latest
news and technical developments, are
available at: www.virotec.com.
If you would like to hear more about our
proven solu tions to your wastewater
and solids problems, give our team of
professionals a call on 07-5573-3353 or
visit our web site at: www.virotec.com
for more information.