New Regulations Impact Industry
The U.S. metal finishing industry is under a virtual mandate to minimize or eliminate
discharges of wastewater to sewers and surface waters. The growing body of industrial experience has demonstrated that the
most effective 0-discharge programs meet the following criteria:
- Recover process solutions and rinse water for reuse wherever possible.
- Purify and Recycle the waste stream at the source, rather than end of pipe.
- Convert formerly hazardous waste to a recoverable raw material.
- Reduce non-recoverable waste to a manageable volume for off-site disposal.
- Offer flexibility and reliability with a minimum requirement of maintenance.
Modular Systems for the 21st Century
Aqualogic's modular technologies meet these requirements and allow manufacturing facilities to eliminate or greatly reduce discharges to local sewers and surface waters. The systems include:
- Atmospheric and Vacuum Evaporators for drag-out recovery and waste concentration.
- Resinator ion exchange for recycling dilute rinsewaters, reducing water flow.
- Automatic Batch Treatment modules for treatment of concentrates or metal reclaim (as pure hydroxides).
- MicroMagic Microfilter Systems, compact design with pH and temperature impervious graphite membrane to extend cleaner life by removing oily contaminants.
- Microfiltration Systems for metal hydroxide removal to meet strict standards and filter effluent for RO recovery.
- Reverse Osmosis (RO) Systems to recycle up to 90% of water used providing low conductivity rinse water.
- Acid Recovery Systems to maintain pickling efficiency by removing dissolved metals and returning active acid to the process while reducing treatment costs.
- Electrowinning Units, for plating metals from drag-outs and evaporator concentrates, reducing hazardous waste volume.
- Coalescers to separate floating oil from effluents reducing waste volumes and improving effluent treatability.
Engineered Turnkey Systems
No one technology or system will be optimum for every application. Our modular systems approach
offers proven technologies uniquely applied to individual situations to give the metal finishers
optimum flexibility, performance, and reliability in implementing a 0-discharge program tailored
to their needs. Aqualogic also offers complete turnkey design and engineering services, including
our in-house laboratory, integrating the above equipmentto assure that the project for each
facility meets the objectives, is correctly installed, and is completely operational. This includes
accessory support equipment, including lift stations, rinse transfer systems, pH and ORP controllers,
and other solution monitoring and handling equipment which are used to balance the system and
assure smooth and reliable performance. Our finishing engineers will often recommend additional
rinse stations where feasible to allow the system to operate most efficiently without creating
excessive effluent volumes for treatment or disposal.
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