Engineering students visit Industrial wastewater treatment plant

On Thursday, 22 October, a group of engineering students and lecturers from Asian University joined a visit organised by the British and German Chambers of Commerce. Everyone met at the offices of Hemaraj Land and Development Plc in the Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (Rayong) where there was a presentation about Hemaraj, its Industrial Estates, customers, and Green Management.

Hemaraj was founded in 1998 and has 13,000 acres in six industrial estates in the Eastern Seaboard. With the current emphasis on environmental issues, Hemaraj publish all their environmental monitoring results on their website. Then there was a short talk about the Constructed Wetlands on the estate, which had initially been used for tertiary treatment of effluent, but is now used for secondary treatment as well. There are two Constructed Wetlands, vertical flow ponds, in series.

The group then visited the constructed wetlands to have a look for themselves.

Everyone drove to The Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate (Chonburi) to the offices of Waste Management Siam (WMS). General Manager John Hamilton showed us a video about WMS and then gave a short talk before we visited the landfill and the waste water treatment plant.

The photos show some of the students and staff from Asian University on the visit.

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