Customer
The Client is a Canadian company leading producer of specialty metals and chemical products, such as tellurium, cadmium and selenium and related compounds.
The German subsidiary fabricates high purity metals dedicated to the thin film for the solar panel industry.
Customer’s Needs
The Client aims to find a solution to concentrate about 4m³/day of brine waste water coming from the metals purification (cadmium sulphide and telluride) and recover this costly products. Also the Client wants to dispose the waste in a solid form (salt) and to achieve a ZLD solution.
|
Parameters |
u.m. |
Waste in |
Distillate out |
Concentrate out |
|
pH |
– |
8.1 |
– |
– |
|
Conductivity |
μS/cm |
310,000 |
<100 |
– |
|
TS at 105°C |
% |
20-22 |
– |
<80 |
|
Metals |
ppm |
35 |
<0.5 |
– |
|
Sulphates |
ppm |
>147,000 |
<5 |
– |
|
Technology Type |
Material |
Footprint (m²) |
|
AC R 3 FF |
UNS S32750 |
14 |
Water separated: ∿75%
Concentration factor: ∿4 times
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