Specification
How the QUANTUM Sewage Treatment Plant Works:
Incoming sewage is screened to prevent accidental non-degradable products entering the digestion chamber. The Vibro-Screen™ allows organic sewage solids to enter the tank without problems.
The screened sewage is aerated and a microbial 'soup' develops that digests the pollutants and organic matter in the remaining sewage. These beneficial microbes are constantly topped up with the microbes that settle out at the bottom of the final settlement tank, ensuring a constant supply of bacteria for the digestion process. There is no need to add extra bacteria, as is the case with some other plants.
The treated sewage then enters the final settlement chamber where activated sludge bacteria settle out at the bottom. These beneficial microbes are constantly returned to the aeration chamber, via a Settled Sludge Return (SSR) pipe to the Vibro-Screen, to boost the treatment system performance.
The bacterial scum or crust that forms on the top of the effluent in the clarification chamber is returned to the Vibro-Screen via the Floating Sludge Return (FSR) pipe. This is an innovation originally developed as a feature of our VORTEX sewage treatment plant. Other activated sludge plants need this crust removing, by hand, at regular intervals.
It saves a lot of unpleasant work for both the owner and the service engineer, resulting in lower cost servicing bills.
Most sewage treatment plants struggle to work when they are under-loaded. A good rule of thumb is that if a system is working below 50% of its design capacity, there is not enough 'food' from the toilet solids to either grow, or maintain, a working bacterial population. The QUANTUM sewage treatment plant has solved this problem by having a simple hand-turned valve that can turn the amount of air required either up, or down, depending on the number of people using it. It is a simple solution to a complex problem.
QUANTUM has advanced activated sludge sewage treatment plant features not found in any other sewage treatment plant in the UK.
The only electrical component is a small air blower which operates all the process stages. This is housed in an isolated compartment under the lid. There are no pumps, motors or any moving parts within the working part of the tank.
Description
Manufactured by WTE the QUANTUM sewage treatment plant is an economy version of WTE's best-selling VORTEX sewage treatment plant. The QUANTUM is an Advanced Sludge Process (ASP) sewage treatment plant.
Benefits include:
- Low installation cost
- Ultra-compact tank
- Extremely clean effluent - up to 97.3% pollutant reduction
- Internal blower
- Extremely quiet operation
- No odour (if installed and maintained correctly)
- Fully adjustable to suit the number of people using it
- Recycles its own waste products resulting in less sludge removal
- One-piece tank construction
- Optional invert depths
- Available with gravity or pumped outlets
- 20 Year tank warranty
Tank Specifications:
| Model: | QUANTUM 6 |
| Population Served: | 6 |
| Max. Hydraulic Load (litres /day): | 900 |
| Organic Load (g BOD5/day): | 360 |
| Ammonium-Nitrogen NH4-N(g) | 48 |
| Diameter (mm): | 1215 |
| Height to Ground Level (mm): | 2000 |
| Base to Inlet (mm): | 1450 |
| Base to Outlet (mm): | 1400 |
| Empty Plant Weight (kg): | 97 |
| Blower (w): | 40 |
| Desludging Interval (months): | 3 -18 |
| Compliant with EN-12566 part 3: | Yes |
| Standard Inlet Depth (mm): | 550 |
| Standard Outlet Depth (mm): | 600 |
| Tank Warranty (Years): | 20 |
| Blower Warranty (Years): | 2 |
Options:
Outlet: Choose from either the Standard Gravity option where the final effluent runs downhill to the water course (or drainage field) or the Integral Pumped Outlet if the effluent needs to be pumped uphill to a watercourse (or drainage field), the pump has a 12 month warranty.
Blower: The QUANTUM is supplied as standard with a discreet internal blower. An external blower kiosk can be supplied if preferred as an option.
Invert: The standard invert depth of the QUANTUM 6 is 0.55m. If necessary this invert can be increased up to 1.00m by adding an additional 450mm riser kit.
Delivery:
Delivery of this product is FREE to most UK Mainland destinations but excludes AB, BT, DD, HS, IV, KW, PA, KA, PH and Islands. For these locations please contact us or call 0117 244 4099 so we can provide an additional delivery quote. All deliveries are subject to suitable access for a high-sided large goods vehicle and you need your own mechanical offloading.
If you require any further assistance, please contact us with your requirements or call 0117 244 4099 so one of our sales team can help with your enquiry.

