SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- Robust, Energy-Positive Wastewater Treatment System for Forward Operating Bases - Sources Sought Survey
- Notice Date
- 10/23/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 221320
— Sewage Treatment Facilities
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - WRN (W56HZV)(DTA), 6501 EAST 11 MILE ROAD, Warren, Michigan, 48397-5000, United States
- ZIP Code
- 48397-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W56HZV-BLACKWATERTREATMENTSYSTEM
- Archive Date
- 12/7/2018
- Point of Contact
- MEIKA J COLE, Phone: 586-282-8047, ,
- E-Mail Address
-
MEIKA.J.COLE.CIV@MAIL.MIL,
(MEIKA.J.COLE.CIV@MAIL.MIL, /div)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a sources sought survey for a Robust, Energy-Positive Wastewater Treatment System for Forward Operating Bases. THIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL BUT INFORMATION AND PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY! This notice does not constitute a commitment by the Government. All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary, and the Government will not pay for information requested nor will it compensate any respondent for any cost incurred in developing information provided to the Government. This requirement is for designing, building, testing and demonstrating an energy-positive wastewater treatment/utilization system for Forward Operating Bases (FOBs). The current and future demands of a highly mobile, resource-limited, Forward Operating Base (FOB) camp call for new advancements in technologies for wastewater treatment and reuse. The Government must continue to improve and optimize its water management to meet mission requirements. The need for reductions in the water supply burden of FOB operations and the safe discharge of wastewater require innovative technologies with the capability to treat black water (i.e., toilet, kitchen) so that it can be discharged into the environment, thus eliminating the need for waste hauling. TARDEC currently has the need to design, build and test a containerized black water treatment system in order to provide data for the future Army black water treatment system requirements. The goal of this project is to integrate solar, biological, electrochemical, and nano technologies to create and demonstrate a mobile, robust, and energy-positive wastewater treatment/utilization system for FOBs that can convert both blackwater and food wastes into clean water and renewable energy for on-site uses. The studied system shall include five unit operations: anaerobic digester of waste treatment, thermoelectric generator (TEG) of biogas utilization, electrocoagulation (EC) of water reclamation, reverse osmosis (RO) of potable water generation, and PV panel of back-up electricity generation. The integrated system overcomes the disadvantages of individual technologies such as incomplete wastewater treatment of anaerobic digestion, relatively high energy demand of EC and RO, low thermal efficiency of TEG, and heavy/expensive energy storage of solar energy. Even though the system has five unit operations, all of them are simple and robust unit operations, which require minimum maintenance and do not have moving parts. The success of the proposed project will deliver a truly self-sustaining, automatic, and robust wastewater treatment/utilization process, which will significantly enhance sustainability of FOBs.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/notices/6fdb66336237e15ec22aced2da6f2828)
- Place of Performance
- Address: The place of contract performance will take place at the contractor's facility., United States
- Record
- SN05132279-W 20181025/181023230613-6fdb66336237e15ec22aced2da6f2828 (fbodaily.com)
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