What SilicaSelect Can Do
If you have 600 m3/day of silica-saturated RO brine, one SilicaSelect skid helps you to boost recovery and lower brine volumes by 20%. That’s good enough in many cases to bring, say, an evaporation pond back into hydraulic balance. Don’t over-treat and over-pay when you can treat a side stream with SilicaSelect with minimized costs.
SilicaSelect removes silica through a high pH precipitation process, with solids filtered to 0.1 µm, making SilicaSelect RO water friendly. If gypsum is also super saturated (>2,550 mg/L), held in dissolved form with anti-scalants, SilicaSelect will relieve the anti-scalants and remove gypsum, further enabling recovery gains. All solids emerge as a solid filter cake for ease of disposal.