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Agricultural Wastewater Treatment

Wastewater treatment solutions for reuse and recycling

Saltworks can help you with everything from desalination of groundwater to wastewater treatment for reuse or safe discharge.

Water and Agriculture

Saltworks’ suite of technologies treat a broad range of waters for agriculture, before or after use. We know that wastewaters from agriculture are complex, with diverse challenges such as salinity, fertilizer or pesticide compounds, animal slurries, ammonia, and more.

We economically treat these waters for safe discharge or reuse, maximizing recoveries and preserving value. We provide solutions that achieve your treatment goals such as:

Reusing wastewater and maximizing water recoveries
Recycling fertilizer
Reducing freshwater demand
Meeting discharge requirements and reducing liabilities
Reducing waste volume, thereby reducing trucking
Treating Phosphogypsum waters
Managing nutrient levels
Injection acid/base to balance pH and alkalinity.

Reuse or Disposal

Many wastewaters can be treated to generate high quality freshwater. Depending on different factors, it may be advantageous to re-use or dispose of wastewater. When reuse is not economic, wastewater which cannot be reused may face strict requirements for discharge or disposal.

Saltworks can help you to figure out and implement the best solution for your project, economically optimized for your project, with robotized, intelligent controls.

Turbocharged Reverse Osmosis

Advancements in reverse osmosis and supporting technologies are further extending applications in the challenging waters of agriculture. Advanced filtration, sensors, and process controls mean that organic-laden waters and brines can be concentrated up to 130,000 mg/L.

We improve the performance of existing reverse osmosis assets to meet treatment goals or we supply our XtremeRO systems, packaged to bring next-gen performance with management of scaling ions, organics and other challenges.

Control the Chemistry

Our solutions can control the chemistry of reused water. Our FlexEDR systems remove dissolved solids & ions such as chlorides and sodium while preserving ions of value such as calcium. FlexEDR can bolt-on to existing reverse osmosis (RO) plants; increasing recovery and plant reliability.

Levels of nutrients and chemicals such as calcium, sulfate, magnesium, nitrogen (ammonia/ammonium), potassium, and boron can all be controlled with our IonSelect solutions.

Contact us with your water chemistry, flow rates, and treatment goals for an options assessment today. We have mobile pilot plants ready to demonstrate, off- or on-site.

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