You may already be recycling wastewater with membrane systems or producing a brine that needs crystallizing; a SaltMaker evaporator helps you to take the next step in wastewater management. In concentrating complex brines or achieving ZLD, many factors need to be considered but uptime and reliability most of all.
Saltworks delivers forced circulation evaporators that do not require expensive chemical pre-treatment and clean themselves while they operate. They achieve this by having evaporation occur in a flash vessel instead of on heat transfer surfaces and employing high shear brine flow through forced circulation heat exchangers and built-in self-cleaning controls. Our technical experts use the right materials to ensure against corrosion and build a long-lasting plant.
Our standard SaltMakers are delivered as factory-built pre-tested modular blocks based on a standardized supply chain. This offers owners a number of benefits:
Mechanical vapour recompression (MVR) evaporators and crystallizers use a vapour compressor to evaporate vapour from brine and condense distilled water, recycling the heat of condensation. The vapour compressor provides a temperature rise across the heat exchange. MVRs offer two primary advantages: they only require power to operate (so there is no need for a gas line connection or heat) and are compact.
In addition to treating wastewater, SaltMaker MVR is also an industry-leading lithium brine concentrator and lithium hydroxide crystallizer.
Multi-stage flash evaporators and crystallizers use thermal energy to evaporate vapour from a brine, lowering electrical energy consumption and removing the need for a vapour compressor. In a single effect, cooling water is employed to condense distilled water.
In multiple effects, the heat of condensation is recycled to evaporate brine from successive effects. Practically, a maximum of four forced circulation effects is common, while waste heat sources at 80°C may mean employing fewer effects.
All SaltMaker MVRs and MSF are built from the same core components, with robust engineering, quality control, and modular packages to lower your total cost of ownership.
We can engineer a SaltMaker into your total process flow and help you understand your options. Contact us to get started.
Saltworks has shipped two SaltMaker MVR crystallizers and a SaltMaker ChilledCrys to the electric vehicle (EV) battery industry. These full-scale systems will play an essential role in the production of lithium and nickel—two critical elements in EV batteries.
A low-cost and air-safe evaporator crystallizer has been developed: the SaltMaker AirBreather. It is based on the robust backbone of Saltworks’ SaltMaker Family.
There are four fundamental types of industrial evaporators and crystallizers used for wastewater treatment, brine management, or improving water reuse. Lower your risks and improve costs by understanding the trade-offs between the different evaporator types.
Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) is an engineering approach to water treatment where all water is recovered and contaminants are reduced to solid waste.