The Honourable Mary Polak, M.L.A., Minister of Environment, visited Saltworks Technologies to learn more about the company’s desalination and water treatment technology and its potential applications in British Columbia.
The Minister and Saltworks’ CEO, Ben Sparrow, discussed how Saltworks’ ongoing work in the oil & gas industry, specifically in Australian gas fields and treating Texas shale gas produced water, could be leveraged to benefit BC’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry.
“Saltworks Technologies exemplifies the sort of innovative thinking that has positioned B.C.’s clean-tech sector as a global leader,” said Ms. Polak. “I congratulate Saltworks on its work to date, and look forward to their continued growth.”
Emerging Asia-Pacific economies have significantly increased demand for natural gas globally, and created an opportunity for British Columbia to grow its LNG industry.
Saltworks’ CEO, Ben Sparrow, stated, “Saltworks is aiming to contribute to Northeastern BC’s development. Specifically, providing a reliable and lower cost means to treat gas produced water and make freshwater for beneficial re-use as opposed to deep well disposal.”
Saltworks Technologies is a leader in the development and delivery of solutions for industrial wastewater treatment and lithium refining. By working with customers to understand their unique challenges and focusing on continuous innovation, Saltworks’ solutions provide best-in-class performance and reliability. From its headquarters in Richmond, BC, Canada, Saltworks’ team designs, builds, and operates full-scale plants, and offers comprehensive onsite and offsite testing services with its fleet of mobile pilots.
Reverse osmosis-based brine concentrators are reaching new performance levels not seen before. Saltworks is pleased to report that a substantial pilot plant is currently demonstrating 99% freshwater recovery on cooling tower blowdown (CTB).
Our SaltMaker modular evaporators and crystallizers turn almost any wastewater into clean water, minimal liquid discharge (MLD) brines or zero liquid discharge (ZLD) solids.
With the growing importance of brine management, modernized chemical softening systems can enable economic ultra-high recovery reverse osmosis, minimizing RO brine volume, disposal costs, and reliability risks.
The many options for managing brine, a term for saline wastewater from industrial processes, fall under two categories: brine treatment and brine disposal. Brine treatment involves desalinating the brine for reuse and producing a concentrated brine (lower liquid waste volume), or residual solids (zero liquid discharge).