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Integrated Water Management
Nalco’s integrated Water Management (IWM) process is a complete audit-to-operation approach for increased water reuse and recycling. We package Nalco’s global expertise into a single offering, including water treatment process design, build, own, operate and management services. We provide our customers with best practices by leveraging the knowledge and experience gained across a wide range of industries. The IWM process identifies the technology, chemistry and expertise required for long-term sustainable solutions, improving your profitability and environmental performance.
IWM – driven by industry needs
- Outsourcing maintenance and operation
- Complying with stricter discharge rules and permits
- Managing water shortage, toxicity, and water-borne disease
- Solving turnkey sole supplier requests
- Meeting time constraints
- Providing environmentally safe water reuse
Your goals are our goals
Nalco has partnered with industrial and institutional customers worldwide to develop reliable, cost-effective and safe solutions. Our ultimate goal is to deliver a measurable return on investment (ROI). We help you:
Increase profitability
- Reduce fresh water consumption and cost
- Reduce waste treatment cost
- Reduce waste water discharge cost
Improve quality
- Improve feed water quality
- Improve treated and recycled water quality
- Improve process and rinse water quality
- Improve product quality
Increase productivity
- Reduce water related shutdown and associated production loss
- Increase cooling tower cycles of concentration and plant cooling efficiency for increased production
and reduced energy consumption - Upgrade boiler water quality and reduce steam related production downtime and energy wastage
due to blowdown - Achieve best-in-class water efficiency
Enhance reliability
- Enhance equipment reliability
- Improve system integrity
- Improve process reliability
- Reduce downtime and breakdowns
Meet environment, health and safety standards
- Meet EH&S standards
- Meet or exceed environmental goals
- Reduce environmental and health risks
Improve safety
- Conduct safety inspections
- Implement safety audit programs
- Execute emergency response programs
Industries Served
- metals
- mining
- power generation
- oil and gas
- chemical & petrochemical
- food, beverage & pharmaceuticals
- hotels, resorts & hospitals
- manufacturing(aerospace,microelectronics, automotive, tire & rubber)
Understanding your needs
As your partner in water reuse, recycle and recover, our first priority is to understand your needs. Nalco does not treat problems in isolation. We take a broad view of your plant and operational challenges, in order to develop practical and well-engineered solutions that work in tandem with your existing operations. We start with a customized IWM audit by a team of Nalco industry experts:
- Site Audit
- Plant resources modeling for water discharge options
- Feasibility study
- Pilot scale evaluation
- Design, budget and construct
- Build and commission
- Own, operate and manage