Rockhampton City Council awarded Aquatec Maxcon a Design & Construct project to deliver a fluoride dosing facility for its Glemnore Water Treatment Plant in late 2009. The plant was successfully commissioned on schedule and has proven easy to operate and robust in service.

Christies Beach waste water treatment facility has adopted Aquatec Maxcon's innovative CROWN Sludge Hydrolysis technology to improve performance of the sludge digestion process. This will be the first commercial application of this technology in Australia and follows its successful implementation at Auckland North Shore.

• The benefits of the CROWN sludge disintegrator are:
• Reduction in sludge volume – typically 20%
• Increased Biogas yields – typically 30%
• Improved de-waterability of sludge - typically 3 – 5%
• Improved digester stability
• Eliminates foaming and bulking sludge
• Low capital cost
• Minimal running cost
• No specialist maintenance skills required
• Pre-fabricated for rapid installation
• Small footprint
• Suitable for applications from 5 m³/hr to 500 m³/hr.

Overall CROWN sludge hydrolysis offers substantially reduced disposal costs while also improving the potential for digesters to generate renewable energy.

Cryeng has been awarded the contract to supply BOC the cryogenic storage vessels for the recently announced Condamine LNG facility. This will include 2 x 300kL tanks (see photo) together with additional vessels including:

• 4x50kL CO2
• 1x25kL CO2
• 2x15kL LIN

Aquatec Maxcon Pty Ltd, the exclusive Australasian distributors for Capstone Turbine Corporation,  and through
Hutchinson Builders, is supplying and commissioning nine (9) quantity model C65 Capstone Turbine co-generation systems for use by the Queensland Department of Emergency Services (DES) for the new Queensland Emergency Operations Centre (QEOC) at Kedron Park.

By using both the heat and power produced by the extremely low emissions and low maintenance technology, Capstone Turbines are assisting in the QEOC in being a world-class facility designed to very high environmental standards - Green Star certification at a 5-star rating.