Applications from WesTech Engineering, LLC

Customized Solutions for surface water treatment industry

WesTech offers a holistic approach to surface water treatment for potable use. Depending upon the raw water quality, the flow rate, and operational preferences, WesTech can provide conventional flow, combination treatment units, packaged systems, high-rate processes, or even customized solutions.

Customized Solutions for groundwater treatment industry

WesTech offers a wide variety of solutions for groundwater treatment for potable use. Whether your treatment objective is gas removal, iron & manganese removal, color removal, softening or even filtering a source under the direct influence of surface water, WesTech has your solution.

Municipal wastewater solutions for preliminary treatment industry

Removing solids and grit plays a crucial role in protecting pumps and other equipment in a treatment facility. WesTech is your single source for headworks equipment to maximize your screening, washing, dewatering, grit removal and grit washing.

Municipal wastewater solutions for biological treatment industry

A well-designed wastewater plant starts with your effluent requirements and an energy-efficient biological process. WesTech has multiple biological process options to match your application and preference. From trickling filters to oxidation ditches, WesTech`s biological process equipment will give you the effluent quality you need and the foundation for a successful wastewater plant.

Municipal wastewater solutions for primary clarification industry

In primary clarification, a portion of the suspended solids and organic matter is removed from the wastewater. This removal is usually accomplished with physical operations such as sedimentation. The effluent from primary clarification will ordinarily contain organic matter and have notable BOD. The principle function of primary clarification is to be a precursor to secondary clarification. Following primary clarification, the...

Municipal wastewater solutions for secondary clarification industry

WesTech leads the way in municipal sedimentation solutions for primary and secondary clarification. Customers around the world benefit from the Clarifier Optimization Package (COP), which provides clean effluent, maximizes overflow rates, and optimizes underflow concentration.

Municipal wastewater solutions for tertiary treatment industry

With growing demand for high-quality effluent and the reuse of treated wastewater, WesTech has your solution. WesTech offers a full range of tertiary treatment equipment for new construction, plant upgrades, and in-basin retrofits.

Municipal wastewater solutions for thickening industry

Thickeners improve the operation of your digestion process. WesTech’s gravity thickeners and rotary drum thickeners have a proven history. For biological nutrient removal applications or sites with limited area, dissolved air flotation thickeners offer many advantages.

Municipal wastewater solutions for combined sewer overflow industry

WesTech offers combined sewer overflow (CSO) equipment, which greatly helps communities where excessive rain events cause the sewer system to be overwhelmed. WesTech provides multiple solutions that will optimize your collection and retention facilities and reduce the contaminants released during combined sewer overflow events.

Industrial solutions for power and cogeneration industry

WesTech engineers water and wastewater process solutions for the power industry including water pretreatment, cooling tower makeup water treatment, and ultrafiltration pretreatment to reverse osmosis, guaranteeing SDIs less than 3. ISO 9001:2008 certified and turnkey experienced, WesTech stands ready to meet deadlines and assure minimal downtime with focused service.

Industrial solutions for food and beverage industry

Water is a precious and crucial resource in the process of food and beverage production. From screening to tertiary treatment, biological nutrient removal to water reclamation, WesTech equipment is designed to maximize efficiencies and minimize downtime, all while meeting the ever-tightening EPA regulations.

Industrial solutions for steel and iron industry

Metals production relies heavily upon efficiencies which allow for a market-ready commodity to keep an ever-changing world building and growing. WesTech process equipment provides key links in this supply chain, assuring both environmental stewardship and maximized production.

Industrial solutions for pulp and paper industry

Sedimentation, flotation, mixing, pulp separation and chemical recovery systems are among the myriad of process equipment WesTech supplies to the pulp and paper industry. Customized to the unique needs of operating plants, WesTech liquid/solids and liquid/liquid separation expertise is built upon years of working with plant operators and owners. The result is a working relationship and reliable process.

Mining & minerals solutions for precious metals industry

WesTech designs and manufactures a full range of thickeners for the minerals industry for product concentration, tailings disposal and CCD circuit washing, including HiFlo Thickeners, AltaFlo Thickeners, and Deep Bed Paste Thickeners. Design-build and turnkey projects are our specialty. Our reputation for excellence has been built one project at a time. Stateside and worldwide, WesTech provides a wide range of process equipment to help maximize the value of your resources.

Mining & minerals solutions for minerals processing industry

WesTech designs and manufactures a full range of process equipment for the minerals industry in the USA and worldwide, including highly efficient HiFlo Thickeners, and Deep Bed and TOP Paste Thickeners for product concentration, tailings disposal, and CCD circuit washing. Each project is completely shop pre-assembled prior to delivery at job site. With 40 years of experience and full ISO 9001:2008 certification, we meet project deadlines and production schedules.

Mining & minerals solutions for acid mine drainage industry

Acid mine drainage (AMD) is typically characterized by low pH and high dissolved iron. The acid mine drainage may also contain high amounts of CO2 which forms carbonic acid and further depresses the pH.

Mining & minerals solutions for sand aggregate industry

WesTech provides process equipment for the sand aggregate industries including thickeners, screening and separation, and mixing technologies which provide for production of cement, and a myriad of materials for the construction industries.

Liquid/solid separation equipments for industrial applications

WesTech offers you a comprehensive line of process equipment in the industrial market. Your project will be supported by a reliable engineering team with extensive experience in all types of industrial applications.

Liquid/solid separation equipments for minerals solutions applications

WesTech provides liquid/solids separation solutions for mineral applications worldwide. From supplying specialized equipment to turnkey systems, WesTech has the expertise and experience to provide customized solutions that are cost effective and reliable.

Liquid/solid separation equipments for municipal wastewater applications

WesTech enjoys more than 40 years of experience in municipal wastewater treatment. WesTech starts with creating value and ensuring success for engineers, contractors, and plant operators. Customers praise not only WesTech’s equipment, but also their overall experience with WesTech’s team.

Liquid/solid separation equipment for municipal water applications

Groundwater Treatment: WesTech offers a wide variety of equipment for groundwater treatment for potable use. Whether your treatment objective is gas removal, nitrate removal, iron and manganese removal, color removal, softening, or even filtering a source under the direct influence of surface water, WesTech has your solution.

Industrial solutions for coal ash pond remediation applications

Bottom Ash Pond Replacement: When coal is burned, two major forms of ash are produced. The fly ash is light and leaves the furnace with hot gases. The bottom ash is heavy and stays in the furnace until it is scraped out. Due to potential liability issues and/or the need to find new real estate at power plants for expansion, many utilities must replace their traditional coal ash ponds. Utilities using traditional...

Industrial solutions for cooling tower, boiler feed pretreatment

Cold Lime Softening: Hard water is water that has high mineral content. The name comes from the hard scale that forms when this water is boiled. It is not harmful to human health, but in the industrial setting it causes costly breakdowns in boilers, cooling towers, and other water handling equipment. The divalent cations Mg and Ca are the most frequently found minerals causing hard water. These ions...

Industrial solutions for heavy metals removal

Heavy Metals Wastewater Treatment System (Chrome Removal): Chromium is present in the wastewaters of a number of industries, including: stainless steel manufacturing, protective coatings on metal, magnetic tapes, chrome plating, tanneries, textile dyes production, pigments and paint production, production of cement, paper, rubber, etc. Chromium is typically precipitated in two steps: reduction and precipitation....

Liquid/solid separation equipment for oil sands

Oil sands or, more technically, bituminous sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Oil sands represent a vast wealth of energy reserves for the world rivaling traditional sources in quality, availability and the ability to meet the world`s needs for many years into the future. The technologies for extraction of this resource are increasingly efficient, and WesTech has worked with several companies on the leading edge of these...

Liquid/solid separation equipment for refinery, chemical and petrochemical

Cracking in a refinery is a process where the long organic chains in oil are broken to produce shorter chain organics that are more valuable than the oil. Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) has generally replaced thermal cracking of petroleum hydrocarbon feed stocks. FCC produces more gasoline with a higher octane rating. FCC’s byproduct gases are more olefinic and valuable than those produced by thermal cracking.

Liquid/solid separation equipment for remediation pollution treatment

Landfills are categorized by regulations in three types: industrial, municipal, and hazardous. Individual landfills may be further differentiated by the types of waste which they accept. All landfills are required to be capped, usually occurring at the end of each day. The cap is typically 6-8” of soil. The cap reduces odor and loss due to wind. At the closing of the landfill, a permanent cap consisting of a membrane and...

Liquid/solid separation equipment for steel and manufacturing

Coke Wastewater Treatment: Heating coal over 1100 Co in the absence of oxygen produces metallurgical coke. This process provides both heat and carbon (coke) required for iron production. During this process the volatile materials contained in the coal are driven off, leaving coke as the product. Gas produced by coking is withdrawn by means of blowers to recover energy-rich byproducts, including...

Liquid/solid separation equipment for coal mining and preparation

Coal Preparation Circuit: Three quarters of American coal is mined east of the Mississippi River. Half of this is “prepared” coal. Coal preparation offers a number of commercial and environmental benefits. These include increased quality and commercial value of saleable coal by achieving 75-80% ash reduction and 15-80% trace element reduction. Cleaned coal reduces transportation costs as...

Liquid/solid separation equipment for man camp

Many times mining, oil and gas exploration, construction, and other activities take place in remote areas of the world. In these cases it is necessary to provide both potable water and treatment of sanitary wastes for the facility. In addition, many of these activities take place in temporary fashion as the sites will either be developed or abandoned at a future date.

Liquid/solid separation equipment for mineral processing

Through the application of cutting-edge technologies, WesTech helps to assure that the byproducts of minerals extraction processes are made inert, reliably contained, and kept from causing environmental damage. Implementation of WesTech tailings processing technology assures that groundwater, surface waters, wildlife, and communities will be protected from tailings dam leaks and levy failures.

Liquid/solid separation equipment for paste thickening and backfill

Mine backfill is defined as the material used to fill the cavities (i.e., stopes) created by underground mining. Backfilling can be a means to dispose of sludge and/or tailings which may contain hazardous materials and to reduce surface environmental impacts by storing tailings underground. Alternately, backfilling with nonhazardous materials can allow for mining productivity improvements. To these materials are added a...

Liquid/solid separation equipment for precious metals - gold and silver

Countercurrent Decantation (CCD): Rock passes into a dump hopper and is then transferred to a vibrating grizzly screen. The oversized material is sent to a jaw crusher. The crushed product is combined with the grizzly undersize and the ore is conveyed to the coarse ore bin.

Liquid/solid separation equipment for tailings

The advantages of paste thickeners in tailings circuits have been well-established for most minerals. The type of paste thickener underflow generally used for surface stacking of tailings is called “thickened tailings.” Thickened tailings are a suspension of solids which are relatively non-settling and non-segregating and which have a higher concentration and viscosity than that of conventional tailings. Common...

Liquid/solid separation equipment for headworks

Effective screening of inorganics and removal of grit improves the effectiveness of your downstream processes and the longevity of your equipment. WesTech engineers and manufactures a full line of headworks equipment. Our experience and our service-driven approach help you find the right solutions to get the most out of your headworks. The more debris and grit you can remove, the more efficient your downstream equipment and...

Liquid/solid separation equipment for aeration

Aeration is an effective and low-cost solution to oxidize iron and manganese. It can also provide high-efficiency removal of gases such as hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, methane, and volatile organic carbons, which results in better process performance and/or improvement of taste and odor.

Liquid/solid separation equipment for flocculation and clarification

Source waters with moderate-to-high turbidity and/or organics require pretreatment. WesTech can provide conventional layouts with separate flocculation and clarification, or combination units such as solids contact clarifiers and even high-rate processes that can squeeze into very small footprints. Need soft water? No problem, WesTech does that too.

Liquid/solid separation equipment for filtration

Filters come in all shapes, sizes, and configurations. WesTech will help you select the right filter. This might include a cluster filter with self-generating backwash, packaged steel tank filters, pressure filters, or even a membrane filter. Selecting filter internals such as underdrains, washtroughs, and media is just as important, and WesTech has more options and expertise than anyone else in the market.