Wynnum Advanced Water Treatment Plant (AWTP)

Caltex’s Lytton oil refinery will be the first major industrial operation in Queensland to commence large-scale use of recycled water, thanks to an $11.78 million State Government incentive funding package for Brisbane City Council to upgrade its Wynnum Wastewater Plant so that treated recycled water can be piped to the Caltex refinery, enabling Caltex to reduce consumption of Wivenhoe Dam water at the refinery by 4.5 Megalitres a day by replacing it with recycled water from the Wynnum plant.

Caltex is Brisbane’s second-largest user of water and will use the recycled Class A+ water in the petroleum refinery’s cooling towers and boilers helping to conserve drinking water supplies in South East Queensland as well as reducing the amount of treated wastewater discharged into Moreton Bay.

The supply of Class A+ water to Caltex required the construction of a microfiltration and reverse osmosis plant for which the Brisbane City Council has contracted the Brisbane Water Enviro Alliance (BWEA).

Power Electric Switchboards has designed and manufactured the MFRO Plant Motor Control Centres for this AWTP project which is scheduled to be completed in the 1st Quarter of 2008.