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Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Treating Complex, Industrial Wastewaters for Discharge, Reuse, and Freshwater Recovery
Heavy industries, manufacturing, and natural resources industries often use large volumes of water and generate wastewaters requiring treatment. We design, build, and operate industrial wastewater treatment plants with modern membrane, chemical, and thermal technologies that economically and reliably treat tough industrial wastewaters.
Industrial Wastewater Management
Effective wastewater management starts with clear objectives—meeting discharge limits, reducing disposal and freshwater use, enabling reuse, achieving ZLD, targeting specific contaminants, or recovering valuable by‑products.
From there, success depends on understanding your water chemistry, defining treatment targets, and evaluating technical and economic options. Industrial wastewaters are often complex and variable. Saltworks supports the full lifecycle, from upfront assessment and pilot testing through to full-scale system delivery.
What’s in Your Wastewater?
Some of the industrial wastewater components we frequently encounter and address include:
- Acids, bases, and pH
- Ammonia
- Biological oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD)
- Chlorides and Fluorides
- Cyanide and heavy metals
- Oil, fats, and grease
- Organic compounds
- PFAS (perfluoroakyl)
- Scaling ions (e.g. calcium, silica)
- Sulfates
- Total suspended solids (TSS)
- Total dissolved solids (TDS)
At the early stages of a project, it is important to know the concentrations of components like these in your industrial wastewater, how they vary, and the overall wastewater flow rate.
Adapting Solutions for Your Project’s Goals
Delivering the right wastewater treatment process is not just about treating the waste stream and its components. Often the most reliable and economic solution will combine treatment, recycling, and disposal. Other project concerns may include:
- Air emissions and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
- Automation
- Brine management
- Cooling tower scaling
- Discharge limits
- Disposal/wastewater costs
- Energy costs
- Evaporation pond balance
- Freshwater recovery (e.g. reverse osmosis recovery)
- GHG emission reductions
- Refine valuable by-products (metals, lithium)
- Operations and maintenance
- Reducing freshwater withdrawl
Wastewater Reuse Solutions
When freshwater is limited or expensive, wastewater reuse can provide a reliable, cost‑effective supply while improving ESG performance. In some applications, recovering reagents, metals, or nutrients from wastewater can further enhance project economics.
Reuse planning starts with water chemistry, permitting requirements, and a technology assessment. In many cases, removing just one or two limiting constituents enables large‑scale reuse. Other applications require ultra‑high‑purity water with minimal brine residuals. Saltworks designs solutions across this full range of reuse objectives.
Industrial Wastewater Treatment Options
Saltworks supports wastewater projects with expert analysis of water chemistry, objectives, technologies, economics, and regulatory requirements to identify the most effective treatment approach.
Our proprietary chemical, thermal, and membrane systems are integrated with advanced sensors and intelligent controls. We also leverage partner technologies to deliver solutions optimized for each application.
Projects can start with desktop studies or mobile pilots to rapidly validate performance. Full‑scale plants are engineered and manufactured in‑house, ensuring quality, cost control, and schedule certainty from design through commissioning. We also upgrade existing facilities to improve performance, automation, or capacity.
To investigate your project’s treatment options, contact our expert industrial wastewater team.
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