membrane filtration Articles

The Client A Portoguese cheese factory producing a wide range of dairy products for the National market. The Challenge According to the type of dairy production, the curdling process produces an amount of whey equivalent to about 85-90% of the volume of transformed milk. The whey characteristics, which also determine its economic value, are ...

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, today announced it has commissioned UK-based Axium Process to install two mobile membrane filtration plants at the campus. Designed for pilot scale Microfiltration, Ultrafiltration, ...

City of Newport Newport, Oregon, USA HDR provided design and construction engineering services for a new water membrane filtration facility in Newport, Oregon. The plant's capacity was upgraded from 4 to 6 million gallons per day (MGD), expandable to 10 MGD. The new treatment system design includes an intake pump station, a pressurized ...

Challenge Perth’s second largest seawater desalination plant, the 50Gl/year (36 mgd) Southern seawater desalination project (SSDP) is being built in Binningup,150km south of Perth. The coastline is influenced by strong winds and variable currents from the Indian Ocean. The wind, current and bathmetry provide strong mixing, ideal for the ...

Situated some 500 km north of Winnipeg, the municipality of Barrows is home to about 300 inhabitants. Barrows has a school in the village with close to 100 students. The only available source of water supply for the municipality is an underground spring with a TDS (total dissolved solids) concentration exceeding 1900 mg/L making the water ...

In early 2006 De Beers Canada began the construction of its first Ontario diamond mine, in the James Bay Lowlands. To provide drinking water for this mining camp and its daily workforce of nearly 1,000 , the engineering- consulting firm AMEC recommended that De Beers Canada call on the expertise of H2O Innovation. H2O presented a solution that ...

The Situation: The Tamayamé, the Native American Tribal members of the Santa Ana Pueblo, north of Albuquerque, NM, are committed to natural resource conservation and future economic development. In the late 1990s, they built a water reclamation facility and began reusing treated effluent to irrigate the Pueblo’s golf course. Although ...

The Problem A hazardous waste landfill in Belleville, MI, owned by the Environmental Quality Company had a problem. They needed to develop a treatment process to remove COD, high TDS, heavy metals, phenol, PCB’s, Ammonia, and Molybdenum from the landfill leachate. Current treatment comprised of chlorination and activated carbon treatment ...

The problem A company which produces a product that requires a constant supply of relatively clean water is planning to expand by adding new process units online.  The plant currently uses well water as a supply to its production.  The water production from the well is limited.  They need to install a system to produce reuse water ...