The system is designed to achieve high efficiency in nickel recovery while minimising energy consumption and operating costs by up to 80%.
WD News: Memsift Innovations Pte Ltd has received a new contract from a global microelectronics giant to build a first of its kind Nickel recovery plant in Singapore using its proprietary TS-30™ Improved Membrane Distillation technology followed by pilot trials.
The microelectronics industry generates industrial effluent containing valuable metals such as nickel, which are typically lost during conventional wastewater treatment processes. The Improved Membrane Distillation system recovers more than 95% of water and up to 100% Nickel (estimated Nickel recovery: 10.2-ton/year and the carbon footprint of Nickel is 11.5kg/kg) from the microelectronics industrial effluents.
The system helps to reduces emission by about 211-ton CO2/year compared to the current business-as-usual scenario. About 43% of emission reduction is due to the direct energy-savings. Typically, it requires about 8436 trees to absorb the same amount of CO2 from the atmosphere over a period of 1 year.
“We are dedicated to exploring and implementing new solutions to help our clients from the high value manufacturing industries to meet their sustainability goals,” said Dr J. Antony Prince, Founder & CEO, Memsift Innovations.
Source & image courtesy: Memsift
