Seprotech Systems Inc.

Concord, ON

Company Overview

History of CMS Group Inc.

In 1974, Tom Smith and Michael Croston began with the idea that simple, highly efficient wastewater treatment systems could be designed, manufactured and installed at a fraction of the cost of conventional wastewater treatment. From their basement offices and garage workshops, the two founders began a design process that would mark CMS as the pioneer and one of the most respected manufacturers of Rotating Biological Contractors (referred to as RBCs) in North America and the only Canadian designed product. Through the years, CMS has grown to create new developments in technology and now employs a staff of engineers, scientists and consultants, all dedicated to that simple mission, established in 1974.

From its offices in Concord Ontario, the company has developed a network of representatives responsible for numerous installations around the world. The product line has grown to include simple but effective technological solutions for a variety of wastewater and air pollution needs.

CMS has four patents relating to ROTORDISK, BIOSCRUB, and the BUGS filter.

Environmental Profile

Products/Services:

Domestic wastewater treatment; industrial wastewater treatment; landfill leachate treatment; municipal wastewater treatment; nutrient removal from wastewater; odour control/elimination; VOC reduction

Company Description

CMS Group Inc. is a Canadian company located in Concord, Ontario. Since 1974, CMS has been involved in the design, development, and manufacture of Rotating Biological Contactors (RBCs) and has registered several patents for these and other waste treatment systems.

From its original ROTORDISK (TM) design for single family homes, CMS has developed a complete line of treatment systems for a wide variety of wastewater applications. CMS focuses on providing practical and cost-effective solutions to wastewater treatment problems.

From domestic sewage to complex industrial wastes and landfill leachates, CMS has been able to design and build efficient pollution control systems that treat various types of wastewater to meet stringent effluent limits.

CMS currently markets a complete line of wastewater treatment technologies (ROTORDISK (TM), CHEMDISK (TM), B. U. G. S. (TM), BIOSCRUB (TM)), and offers complete services covering pilot studies, environmental approval, design, installation, start-up and training.

CMS currently markets its products and services in Canada, USA, and Asia, and has over 1, 600 installations worldwide.

Company Information

Additional Details

Legal Name: Seprotech Systems Inc.

Number of Employees: 15

Total Sales ($CDN): $100,000 - $200,000

Contacts

Services

• Environmental Consultant - Air Pollution Destruction
• Environmental Consultant - Equipment Or Instrument Development
• Environmental Consultant - Hazardous Waste-biochemical
• Environmental Consultant - Hazardous Waste-chemical
• Environmental Consultant - Industry-wood Products & Voc Destruction
• Environmental Consultant - Municipal Solid Waste
• Environmental Consultant - Plant Retrofits(design)
• Environmental Consultant - Recycling Plant-biomass
• Environmental Consultant - Sanitary Landfills
• Environmental Consultant - Sewage Collection And Treatment
• Environmental Consultant - Sewage Treatment Plants
• Environmental Consultant - Site/Land Reclamations
• Environmental Consultant - Waste Handling-air Pollution
• Environmental Consultant - Waste Handling-municipal Solid Waste
• Environmental Consultant - Waste Handling-other
• Environmental Consultant - Waste Handling-other Hazardous Waste
• Environmental Consultant - Waste Treatment
• Removal Of Phosphorus

  Removal of Phosphorus Phosphorus is a wastewater characteristic of concern to regulatory authorities due to the adverse effects that it has on the surrounding aquatic biology when effluents are discharged into streams. ROTORDISK provides high removal efficiencies, and the potential for the development of polishing technologies still exists. CMS has proposed a polishing technology to remove phosphorus to a level of.03 mg/L, which has been accepted by the Ministry of the Environment as a result of the Storrington Landfill Environmental Hearing. Incorporating existing and proposed technologies will lead to favourable results to meet Provincial Water Quality Objectives.

• Turnkey Project Management Services

  It is important to note that specific products are offered in the context of the provision of complete "turnkey" systems. This means that rather than simply offering off-the shelf products of which the customer must have knowledge, CMS provides a project management service to the customer where it assists in determining system requirements; design systems for specific applications; selecting appropriate equipment; installation of equipments and systems; and providing for systems maintenance. While CMS has in-house engineering staff, project management is frequently carried out in association with various independent professional engineering firms.

Products

• Bioscrub

  BIOSCRUB The purpose of the BIOSCRUB is to remove and destroy contaminants in gaseous emissions. The removal and destruction of the contaminants is effected in a single vessel and is an advantage over existing processes which require several stages and several vessels for treatment of the gaseous contaminants and resulting wastewater streams. The process is effective in aiding manufacturing industries that produce water soluble and biodegradable gaseous contaminants. These include many plants in the chemical industry, the food industry, plastics' fabrication, the wood products industry, the petroleum industry, paint manufacturing and application, coke production and municipal wastewater treatment plants.

  CMS views the BIOSCRUB as having substantial future potential subject to the development of a suitable marketing program.

• Chemdisk And Landfill Leachate Treatment

  CHEMDISK and Landfill Leachate Treatment CHEMDISK are based upon the same concept as the ROTORDISK but with design revisions to accommodate toxic and complex organic wastewater from industrial plants. Typically, CHEMDISK are used in conjunction with other wastewater treatment equipment such as chemical addition and solids separation devices, specialized filters, UV disinfection units, and pH-buffering tanks. One of the most successful application of the CHEMDISK is for landfill leachate treatment. Landfill leachate is a pollutant that percolates into the underlying soil from a landfill site. In the past, the use of gravel pits and other excavated sites were considered an acceptable receptacle for the disposal of solid waste. This method of garbage disposal has been under increased criticism because of the infiltration of leachate into the aquifer, and has led to the implementation of strict environmental guidelines for the handling of municipal and industrial wastes. CHEMDISK applications made to date include the treatment of landfill leachate at the Britannia Landfill Site in the Region of Peel, at the Edmonton, Alberta Clover Bar landfill site, and the treatment of phenolic wastewater at the GM foundry in St. Catharines. The Britannia leachate plant is designed to handle BOD levels of up to 12, 000 ppm, and since its installation, has averaged a BOD removal rate of 95.7%. At a recent Environmental Assessment Hearing for a proposed tertiary treatment for leachate " probably represents one of the Best Available Technologies currently available". The EA Hearing approved the landfill site subject to the construction of a CMS-designed leachate plant.

• Environmental Products And Services
• Filtordisk And Bugs Filtration

  FILTORDISK and BUGS Filtration FILTORDISK operates as tertiary (advanced) wastewater treatment plants. They are applicable for use in areas where extremely high treatment of wastewater is required. Building on the basic technology of ROTORDISK, FILTRODISK units employ a pre-and-post treatment buoyant filtration system that was developed by CMS and the Ontario Research Foundation. This patented Buoyant Upflow Gravity Self-cleaning (BUGS) filter holds particular opportunity for CMS as it enhances the operations of existing sewage treatment plants using any form of treatment methodology. The retrofitting of municipal treatment plants can result in higher quality of effluent of higher flow capacities at very reasonable costs. Other potential applications of the BUGS filter technology include the filtration of strorm water run-off and the filtration of suspended solids in industrial wastes, especially for the pulp and paper industry

  The potential for the BUGS filter lies untapped and awaits a suitable marketing program.

• Filtration Systems, Water, Industrial
• Rotordisk

  ROTORDISK Rotordisk is the trade name for CMS proprietary line of RBCs. The RBC process involves the introduction of wastewater into tankage that is engineered to provide efficient contact area between the organic material in the wastewater and the micro-organisms that will metabolize it. This contact area is achieved by supporting circular mesh-like disks on a horizontal axis and by immersing the resulting "disk banks" approximately 40% into the wastewater. As the shaft rotates at 2 to 6 RPM, the microbes that develop on the disks from a biomass which is alternately exposed to oxygen and wastewater, the food source to the microbes. The ROTORDISK design is accepted by regulatory authorities in all Canadian provinces and most of the United States, working effectively from the Tropics to the High Arctic. There are two patents protecting aspects of the ROTORDISK design.

  The ROTORDISK treatment system has numerous benefits over the conventional activated sludge plant:

  • competitive capital cost
  • lower maintenance cost
  • simplicity of operation
  • reliability and high level of BOD reduction
  • modular construction allowing flexibility for future expansion
  • low electrical power requirements
  • low levels of odour and noise from the plant.
• Sewage Treatment Systems, Nes
• Water Treatment Systems, Nes, Industrial

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