CaptuRO brings industrial clients the supply of the highest permeate water recovery – up to 98% – across numerous applications.
WD News: Over the past few decades, fresh water sources have become increasingly scarce throughout the world. At the same time, brine disposal options have become less available and increasingly more expensive due to environmental regulations and sustainability requirements. These ongoing trends have been drivers for municipalities and industries to utilise high recovery RO processes.
Robert Koch, Manager of industrial applications at Veolia Water Technologies, is part of the team that developed CaptuRO. He explained: “From pre-treatment to wastewater reuse across all applications — we can recover water at an extremely high rate with this technology.” CaptuRO is a semi-batch process which enables a higher water recovery rate. Separate system volume containers are systematically employed upstream of the membranes to ensure that concentration turn times are optimum.
The technology also minimises the volume of brine generated, resulting in savings in liquid waste disposal costs. Along with this come energy savings and the potential to further optimise the use of antiscalants. Moreover, the semi-batch process automatically adapts to changes in salt concentration in effluent reclaim applications, allowing it to run continuously at an optimum recovery rate.
Source & image courtesy: Veolia Water Technologies
