Unpleasant odor at "Salar" treatment facility eliminated

The Tashkent City Administration announced the installation of a filtration system, valued at 9.5 billion UZS, to eliminate the unpleasant odor around the "Salar" treatment plant.

According to the Tashkent city administration, the wastewater reservoirs have been hermetically sealed, and the air purification equipment has been operating successfully for 15 days. Dononboy Kazibekov, the chief technologist at "Toshkent Shahar Suv Ta'minoti," stated that a three-stage filtration system imported from Russia has been installed at this facility, which receives wastewater from the Sergeli, Yangihayot, Mirobod, and Yashnobod districts.

Air is drawn in through ventilators and passed through 11.5 tons of a catalytic sorbent. The air is then ozonated and oxidized using ultraviolet radiation. In the final stage, the air is purified through 2.5 tons of activated carbon.

As a result, the concentration of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia in the discharged air has been reduced to zero.

For context, the President had previously issued an instruction to eliminate the unpleasant odor problem in the Sergeli and Yangihayot districts by September 1. Additionally, a major project is being implemented with a foreign consortium in the Tashkent region to build a new treatment plant capable of processing 1 million cubic meters of wastewater per day.

Shahnoza Mamaturopova,

UzA