Black Water Treatment

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. 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 gray (i.e., laundry/shower water re-use system concentrate) and black water (i.e., kitchen and toilet) so that it can be discharged into the environment, thus eliminating the need for waste hauling.

The Government is looking to evaluate the technical feasibility of Forward Osmosis/Reverse Osmosis treatment of gray water to reuse quality and Mobile Bioelectric Filtration treatment of black water to discharge standards, both of which are directly relevant to water and waste reduction at contingency base camps, decreasing the overall logistics footprint.