Challenge Fund

The Government of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh wants solutions of requirements from the

people of Bangladesh

Access to Information Programme (a2i) is launching Challenge Funds, in collaboration with

Government agencies aiming to assisting the Government

to achieve the desired objective

ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) Monitoring System

Background

Any industries, which uses fresh water in their processes gives out effluent or wastewater, which

contains a lot of polluting contaminants. It affects our environment by contaminating the water

bodies, which will adversely affect the health life of all living beings. So effluent treatment plant

is implanted in small to cluster of industries to treat the effluents or wastewater, which is been

disposed out.

By law, effluent from industries must meet the national effluent discharge quality standards set by

the Government of Bangladesh, including the “Quality Standards for Classified Industries”.

Consequently any ETP must be designed and operated in such a way that it treats the wastewater

to these standards. The regulations state that these quality standards must be ensured from the

moment of going into trial production for industrial units. They also state that the Department of

Environment can undertake spot checks at any time and the pollution levels must not exceed these

Quality standards. Furthermore, the quality standards may be enforced in a more stringent manner

if considered necessary in view of the environmental conditions of a particular situation. [Table1

- National Standards - Waste Discharge Quality Standards for Industrial Units and Projects (quality

standard at discharge point)]

Proper Management, appropriate Use and Cost Minimization for industries can only be achieved

by an automatic system - which can monitor effluent at discharged point in real-time, display

effluent parametric data on-line, analyze the data, keep history of records and generate

alarm/notification based on dynamic input from users.

The Challenge

An On-Line & Real-time Effluent Discharged Monitoring System for Effluent Treatment Plant,

consist of Sensors such as UV-VIS Spectrometer for measurement of COD, BOD & TSS, probes

for dissolved oxygen, pH meter, etc, including online platform for monitoring, tracking and

alarming, for The Department of Environment, Government of Bangladesh.

Schedule

Registration information Publish: DD YYYY

Registration Begins: 13 Oct 2018

Registration Close: 15 Nov 2018

Demonstration begins: 30 Nov 2018

Demonstration ends: 07 Dec 2018

Ceremonial event: 30 Dec 2018

Judging Criteria

The prize will be awarded, at the end of the contest, to the application who in the opinion of the

jury demonstrate a solution (which is at least a system prototype demonstrated in an operational

environment) that best addresses the cumulative criteria for “Efficiency”, “Reliability” and

“Innovative Design”. The following criteria are available but not limited options for the jury:

The proposed solution should have a minimal negative impact on the environment;

sustainability will be considered throughout the whole life-cycle of the proposed solution

from production to disposal.

The proposed solution is expected to be at a working prototype stage and be

demonstrated in a relevant environment. This development stage refers to the sensor

device as a whole, including data acquisition, collection, transmission, readiness,

dispersion, analysis, report generation, user management, etc.

The proposed solution should operate autonomously throughout the required period of

time, accounting for irregularities in the energy source, environmental conditions, and

decay of materials.

The proposed solution is expected to be easily deployable, configurable and disposable,

with only minimal human intervention required in the operational environment. In this

sense, remotely controlled or self-tuning devices will be favored, since the limitations that

make water environments unfeasible for battery-operated devices are also likely to be a

barrier for maintenance operations.

Robustness of the materials used in each component of the device should be able to

withstand the conditions expected in the relevant environment (e.g. temperature,

pressure, humidity) for the desired amount of time.

The proposed solution should demonstrate significant improvements in terms of

portability of the solution both in terms of design (potential for application in different

settings e.g. monitor other parameters or operate in different environments) and

software compatibility with major operating systems and browsers. The openness of the

solution (i.e. open APIs and Level of APIs with more flexible controls) will play a vital role

in the judging process

Data quality must be ensured

Interoperability, such that the infrastructure can be shared across different utilities, e.g.

the water utilities, energy utilities, will be an asset.

The solutions should be tested under a wide range of conditions within its setting in order

to account for the variability of natural environments and infrastructural differences

across the country.

Following criteria will be considered for the two divisions – Software and Hardware:

- Software: interoperability of systems, harmonization of software development,

processing algorithms and storage technologies that enable to deal with increasing

amounts of data;

- Hardware: rational increasing number of sensors to collect real-time and near

real-time information and to its power supply.

The solution must full-fill all the system requirements

The solution must full-fill the criteria for sensor data & required detected value.

System Requirements

SYSTEM Requirements

Dashboard

On-Site Monitoring

Alarm/Notification

Per ETP/Unit/Industr

y Profile

Real-Time Sensor Data

Sensor Callibration

User Level Authentication

Multiple Type of Users

Different Authentication

Levels

Dynamic/Custom/ Profile/ Industry Type based Thereshold Setting

Sensor data & minimum required values

Sensors Data & Minimum Required Detected ValueSensors Data & Minimum Required Detected Value

100 mg/lTSS

150 mg/lBOD5 20oC

10 mg/lOil and Grease

2100 mg/lTotal Dissolved Solid (TDS)

100 l/kg of fabric processingWaste Water Flow

6.5-9pH

2 mg/lTotal Chromium (as Cr molecule)

2 mg/lSulfide (as S molecule)

5 mg/lPhenolic compounds as C6H5OH

Minimum Detected value is: 25% < National Standards - Waste Discharge Quality Standards for Industrial Units and Projects (quality standard at discharge point), given at the Right Column

National Standards - Waste Discharge Quality Standards for Industrial Units and Projects (quality

standard at discharge point

Parameter Unit Inland

Surfac

e

water

Public Sewer

secondary

treatment

plant

Irrigated

Land

Ammoniacal Nitrogen (N

molecule)

mg/l 50 75 75 Ammonia (free ammonia) mg/l 5 5 15 Arsenic mg/l 0.2 0.5 0.2 BOD5 200C mg/l 50 250 100 Boron (B) mg/l 2 2 2 Cadmium (Cd) mg/l 0.05 0.5 0.5 Chloride (Cl—) mg/l 600 600 600 Chromium (total Cr) mg/l 0.5 1.0 1.0 COD mg/l 200 400 400 Chromium (hexavalent Cr) mg/l 0.1 1.0 1.0 Copper (Cu) mg/l 0.5 3.0 3.0 Dissolved Oxygen (DO) mg/l 4.5-8 4.5-8 4.5-8 Electrical Conductivity micro

mhc/cm

1200 1200 1200 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) mg/l 2100 2100 2100 Fluoride (F) mg/l 7 15 10 Sulfide (S) mg/l 1 2 2 Iron (Fe) mg/l 2 2 2 Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (N) mg/l 100 100 100 Lead (Pb) mg/l 0.1 0.1 0.1 Manganese (Mn) mg/l 5 5 5 Mercury (Hg) mg/l 0.01 0.01 0.01 Nickel (Ni) mg/l 1.0 1.0 1.0 Nitrate (N molecule) mg/l 10.0 Undetermined 10.0 Oil & grease mg/l 10 20 10 Phenol compounds (C6H5OH) mg/l 1.0 5 1 Dissolved Phosphorus (P) mg/l 8 8 10 Radioactive materials: As determined by Bangladesh Atomic Energy

Commission pH 6-9 6-9 6-9 Selenium (Se) mg/l 0.05 0.05 0.05 Zn (Zn) mg/l 5.0 10.0 10.0 Temperature Centigrade Summer 0C 40 40 40 Winter 0C 45 45 45 Total Suspended Solid (TSS) mg/l 150 500 200 Cyanide (CN) mg/l 0.1 2.0 0.2

Eligibility

Who Can Participate

The contest is open to any legal entity (including natural persons) or group of legal entities

established in an EU Member State or in a co

Who Cannot Participate

Participants will be excluded if they

are subject to an administrative sanction (i.e. exclusion)4

are in one of the following situations:

bankrupt, being wound up, having their affairs administered by the courts, entered

into an arrangement with creditors, suspended business activities or subject to any

other similar proceedings or procedures under national law (including persons with

unlimited liability for the participant's debts)

declared in breach of social security or tax obligations by a final judgment or decision

(including persons with unlimited liability for the participant's debts)

found guilty of grave professional misconduct by a final judgment or decision

(including persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control)

convicted of fraud, corruption, involvement in a criminal organization, money

laundering, terrorism-related crimes (including terrorism financing), child labor or

human trafficking (including persons having powers of representation, decision-

making or control)

shown significant deficiencies in complying with main obligations under a

procurement contract, grant agreement or grant decision financed by the GoB

(including persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control)

have misrepresented information required for participating in the contest or fail to

submit such information

were involved in the preparation of the prize documents and this entails a distortion

of competition .

Documents

The mandatory supporting documents will be set out in the application form.

Participants may be asked at a later stage for further documents (for legal entity validation,

bank account validation, ethics review, declaration of honor on exclusion grounds, etc.).

Fund

BDT 25,000,00/= shall be funded for implementing the idea into reality.