Targeting specific ions for removal can be the most cost-efficient way to treat a wastewater flow. Saltworks has treatment and sensing solutions available to treat ions and other species, making water suitable for discharge or re-use.
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Is your wastewater challenge limited to one or two constituents of concern? It may be possible to target and remove specific contaminants, avoiding the need for more complex and expensive treatment.
Many wastewaters are more than 99% fit for discharge or re-use, but one or two contaminants prevent this. Saltworks’ IonSelect solutions target specific ions or contaminants of concern, removing them as a solid so you can discharge 99% of your wastewater volume and avoid brine management costs.
We pull from a variety of treatment methods, robust real-time sensors, and the expertise to know when and how to use them.
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| Selective precipitation and filtration |
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| Direct chemical or electrochemical destruction |
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| Monovalent electrodialysis removal |
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| Nanofiltration |
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Don’t see your problem listed? Saltworks develops custom treatment solutions, designed for cost-effectiveness. Contact us and our process and chemistry experts will rapidly review your problem.
Recovering lithium in evaporation ponds can take a year or more and leaves behind lots of salt waste, but there are new technologies and processes that offer exciting options for lithium extraction.
As regulations on FGD wastewater tighten, additional treatment is required. Often, this is chemically intense, and high cost. The best means to lower treatment costs is to reduce the volume of wastewater generated, usually by increasing internal recycle.
With the advent of ultra-high-pressure reverse osmosis and 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.
New modular, intelligent, and automated chemical precipitation with a ceramic membrane filtration system eliminates the challenges of chemical overdosing and large footprint requirements.
BrineRefine Chemical Softening System
Smart, compact, modular chemical softening system that reduces costs with precision dosing and built-in solids management. Improves recovery and minimizes fouling risk with intelligent controls that communicate with downstream assets, like RO or evaporators.
FlexEDR
FlexEDR is an advanced electrodialysis reversal (EDR) system, leveraging our next generation ion exchange membranes. It requires less pre-treatment, tolerates oils and organics, selectively removes ions and uses fewer chemicals.
ScaleSense
Real-Time Sensor
An automated, real-time sensor for saline waters that measures calcium (Ca2+), barium (Ba2+), sulfate (SO42-) ions and silica (SiO2). ScaleSense is robust and corrosion-resistant and functions accurately and precisely, even at extremely high-TDS.
An ultra-robust ceramic based ultrafilter that can remove suspended solids, oils, and grease from the most challenging slurries and impacted wastewaters. XtremeUF cleans itself as it operates, to ensure your membranes maintain performance.