Full-chain anaerobic + advanced oxidation equipment matrix, one-stop matching for industrial park wastewater management requirements

2026/09/24 14:17

Preface

Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment officially issued HJ 945.4-2026, the Technical Guideline for the Formulation of Water Pollutant Discharge Standards for Centralized Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Industrial Parks, which will be fully implemented on September 1, setting a new rigid control benchmark for centralized wastewater treatment in single-industry and comprehensive industrial parks nationwide.

The core reforms of the new regulations directly address the current pain points in park wastewater management: salinity, comprehensive toxicity, PFOA, and other emerging pollutants are brought under mandatory control; differentiated management is applied to single-industry and comprehensive parks; full-process coverage of conventional, toxic and hazardous, and persistent pollutants is required; dilution discharge is prohibited; and requirements are strengthened for whole-chain wastewater monitoring, rainwater collection and disposal, and integration with reclaimed water resource utilization. For parks with clustered industries such as chemicals, printing and dyeing, electroplating, pharmaceuticals, and coal chemicals, existing traditional simple biochemical processes can no longer meet the compliance thresholds of the new standards.

In response to the six major treatment challenges faced by industrial parks under the new policy—high COD, high salinity, high toxicity, emerging pollutants, recalcitrant total nitrogen, and odor nuisance from exhaust gas—our company has built a fully closed-loop process equipment system covering anaerobic pretreatment → high-efficiency denitrification → advanced oxidation of recalcitrant pollutants → anaerobic membrane deep purification → biological deodorization of waste gas: LIC anaerobic reactors, UASB anaerobic reactors, LIC-MAX anaerobic reactors, LC-AnDen denitrification, Fenton catalytic oxidation, electrocatalytic oxidation, waste (odor) gas treatment, and more, providing full-line coverage. It is suitable for centralized wastewater treatment stations in various single or integrated industrial parks such as food, chemical, electroplating, printing and dyeing, pharmaceutical, and new materials industries, offering one-stop compliance with all-dimensional control indicators of HJ 945.4-2026.

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Understanding the Three Major Mandatory Control Upgrades in the Technical Guidelines for Formulating Water Pollutant Discharge Standards for Centralized Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Industrial Parks

Park wastewater renovation is imminent


Comprehensive expansion of control indicators

Three new categories of mandatory assessment items added


The guidelines clearly state that wastewater from industrial parks such as chemical, electroplating, food processing and manufacturing, pharmaceutical, printing and dyeing, petrochemical, and coal chemical industries must simultaneously control three new categories of indicators:

· Mandatory control of salt content:High-salinity wastewater parks need to add total salt content and chloride limits. Direct biological treatment of high-salinity wastewater can easily lead to sludge inactivation, so efficient anaerobic salt-tolerant pretreatment must be installed upstream;

· Mandatory assessment of comprehensive toxicity:Effluent from parks involving heavy metals, dyes, antibiotics, and pesticide wastewater must be assessed for aquatic biological toxicity. Traditional biochemical processes cannot degrade toxic intermediates, so advanced oxidation units must be provided as supporting treatment;

· Routine regulation of emerging contaminants:Perfluorinated substances such as PFOA and HFPO-TA have been included in control measures. The removal rate of ordinary anaerobic processes is less than 10%, so synergistic advanced treatment using electrocatalytic oxidation plus anaerobic membranes is required.


Classified management and control of parks

Process thresholds have been substantially raised


According to the industries to which enterprises in the park belong and the discharge standards they implement, parks are classified into single-industry type and comprehensive type (similar-industry / dominant-industry / differentiated type), with discharge limits set differentially:

· Single-industry parks (electroplating, printing and dyeing, food):Must match industry-specific emission standards, and high-concentration mother liquor requires segregated pretreatment;

· Comprehensive mixed-industry parks:Pollutants are diverse and water quality fluctuates greatly, requiring processes with shock-load resistance and full pollutant degradation capacity; dilution to meet standards is strictly prohibited;

· Parks without conditions for unified standard-setting shall implement “one park, one policy”and simultaneously impose regulatory requirements on the entire wastewater process, rainwater collection, and reclaimed water reuse.


Full-chain prevention and control requirements

No blind spots from source to biochemical treatment to advanced treatment to tail gas


The new regulations no longer control only the terminal main discharge outlet:

· Enterprises’ high-concentration mother liquor requires segregated pretreatment, and monitoring points shall be set up for segregated pretreatment facilities;

· Contaminated rainwater shall be uniformly collected and enter the wastewater station for treatment, and must not be directly discharged into rainwater outlets;

·Odor from sewage stations is treated simultaneously to avoid secondary air pollution;

·Encourage the resource recovery and reuse of effluent water; the process must meet both discharge compliance and regeneration/reuse standards.

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Full-Series Reactor Matrix

Complete coverage of the park's entire sewage treatment process chain

Precisely aligned with new policy requirements


Combining the full-dimensional requirements of the Technical Guidelines for the Formulation of Water Pollutant Discharge Standards for Centralized Sewage Treatment Facilities in Industrial Parks—including pollutant control, segregated treatment, advanced detoxification, denitrification, and odor removal—Green Creation Environment's seven core equipment units form a complete process loop, adapting to different park water qualities and industry types:

High-concentration organic wastewater anaerobic pretreatment unit: LIC/UASB/LIC-MAX anaerobic reactor

Applicable scenarios:High-COD wastewater from food fermentation, chemical, printing and dyeing, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as park-level segregated pretreatment wastewater, addressing the needs under new regulations for separate control of high-concentration wastewater and resistance to high salinity and shock loads.

1. UASB Anaerobic Reactor

Mature granular sludge bed process, designed for high-concentration mixed wastewater in industrial parks, with a COD removal rate of 75%-85% and simultaneous recovery of biogas for resource utilization; suitable for single-industry parks in food, papermaking, and general chemical sectors, stably degrading macromolecular organic matter, reducing downstream biochemical load, and meeting the effluent monitoring limit requirements for segregated pretreatment facilities.

2. LIC Anaerobic Reactor

Optimized internal circulation water distribution structure, greatly improved resistance to water quality shocks, suitable for working conditions with large water quality fluctuations in comprehensive parks, resistant to a certain degree of salinity, reduces sludge loss, and lowers operation and maintenance costs.

Total nitrogen advanced denitrification unit: LC-AnDen ammonia oxidation biological denitrification technology

Applicable scenarios:Pain points of total nitrogen exceeding standards in pharmaceutical, chemical, electroplating, and food parks, benchmarked against new regulations for refined total nitrogen control. Addressing the accumulation of nitrate nitrogen and organic nitrogen caused by the mixing of wastewater from multiple industries in comprehensive parks, it strengthens the anoxic denitrification environment, with high sludge concentration and stable denitrification efficiency, without the need for a large amount of additional carbon source, solving the difficult problem that total nitrogen in traditional processes is hard to stably meet standards, and meeting the strict discharge limit requirements of ecological control zoning.

Technical advantages:

· Compared with the traditional nitrification-denitrification process, this process controls the nitrification process at the nitritation stage, greatly reducing the oxygen supply. Compared with the traditional process, it can save more than 50% of power consumption and greatly reduce treatment costs;

· The denitrification process requires no participation of organic matter, gets rid of dependence on exogenous organic matter, and greatly reduces treatment costs;

· The amount of excess sludge produced is extremely small, only about 20% of that of the traditional biological denitrification process;

· At the same time, this system can effectively adjust the parameters required for each reaction, achieving efficient autotrophic denitrification, with an ammonia nitrogen removal rate of up to 95%; a total nitrogen removal rate of 75%--85%;

· It has high denitrification efficiency and a simple process flow, reducing infrastructure costs.

Deep detoxification unit for refractory pollutants: Fenton catalytic oxidation technology + electrocatalytic oxidation technology

Applicable scenarios:Wastewater containing dyes, antibiotics, PFOA, and heterocyclic toxicants, addressing the mandatory requirements of new regulations for comprehensive toxicity and emerging pollutant control.

1. Fenton fluidized bed reactor

Based on the traditional Fenton reaction tower, our company has developed a patented Fenton fluidized bed reactor. By using a fluidized bed approach, most of the substances produced by the Fenton method are attached to the surface of the fluidized bed Fenton carrier in the form of crystals or precipitates, which can greatly reduce the amount of chemical sludge generated by the dosage used in the traditional Fenton method (H202The dosage is reduced by 10%~20%, Fe2The dosage is reduced by 50% to 70%, and the sludge volume is reduced by 40% to 50%. Meanwhile, the iron oxide formed on the carrier surface has a heterogeneous catalytic effect, and fluidized bed technology also promotes the chemical oxidation reaction rate and mass transfer effect, effectively increasing the COD removal rate by 10% to 20%, saving 30% to 50% of treatment operating costs, and making it suitable for printing and dyeing, pesticide, and chemical industrial parks.

2. Electrocatalytic oxidation reactor

Electrocatalytic oxidation technology uses electrochemical principles with alloy metals such as aluminum, iron, and titanium-ruthenium as the main electrodes. With the application of an external pulse voltage, it generates electrochemical reactions, converting electrical energy into chemical energy. Through the synergistic effects of electrocatalytic oxidation, electrocatalytic reduction, electrocatalytic flocculation, and electrocatalytic air flotation, it degrades or separates pollutants in wastewater, thereby purifying water bodies. Its main mechanisms of action include four parts: strong oxidation—self-generated oxidants; strong reduction—self-generated reductants; flocculation—self-generated flocculants; air flotation—self-generated gas ultrafine bubbles—as well as functions such as sterilization and decolorization integrated into one. It is suitable for new materials, electronic electroplating, and fluorine chemical industrial parks, meets the mandatory monitoring and control requirements for new pollutants in the guidelines, and is a core unit for achieving comprehensive toxicity compliance.

Secondary pollution supporting treatment: waste (odor) gas treatment technology and equipment

Applicable scenarios:Odor treatment for wastewater stations in all types of industrial parks, achieving coordinated water and gas management. Odor from anaerobic tanks, equalization tanks, and sludge rooms is centrally collected, and biofilms degrade hydrogen sulfide and volatile organic compounds without secondary pollution. This fills the gap in tail gas management at park wastewater stations, achieves integrated treatment of water pollutants and air pollutants, and complies with the whole-process environmental risk prevention and control principles for centralized treatment facilities in parks.


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New policies are about to be implemented

It is the right time to upgrade and renovate park wastewater stations


The Technical Guidelines for the Formulation of Water Pollutant Discharge Standards for Centralized Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Industrial Parks will be officially implemented on September 1, 2026. Local ecological and environmental departments will simultaneously carry out special inspections of centralized wastewater treatment facilities in industrial parks, focusing on five major dimensions: salinity, comprehensive toxicity, emerging pollutants, rainwater disposal, and standardization of discharge outlets.

Traditional single aerobic and simple anaerobic processes will face widespread risk of exceeding discharge standards, while Green Creation Environment's full-chain anaerobic + advanced oxidation equipment matrix fully covers the entire process of segregated pretreatment, biochemical degradation, advanced detoxification, denitrification, advanced membrane purification, and odor treatment, matching all regulatory control clauses of the new rules in one stop. It can provide an overall solution from scheme design, equipment supply, installation and commissioning to operation and maintenance hosting, helping various industrial parks smoothly complete environmental protection upgrades and avoid the risk of penalties for exceeding standards.


Is your park a single-industry type or a comprehensive type? Are there pain points in treating high salinity, recalcitrant, and emerging pollutants? You are welcome to leave a message in the background for communication, and we will provide process diagnosis and customized wastewater treatment solutions!

Is your park a single-industry type or a comprehensive type? Are there pain points in treating high salinity, recalcitrant, and emerging pollutants? You are welcome to leave a message in the background for communication, and we will provide process diagnosis and customized wastewater treatment solutions!

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