Manufacturers everywhere will recognise that off-site waste disposal costs are on the increase and that water is becoming a precious commodity that simply cannot be wasted
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Wash Water
Recycling
'Recycling pays'
Waste Coolant
Treatment & Water Recycling

Legislation in the form of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive (IPPC) has sharpened this focus further to present industry with some vigorous challenges, particularly over the next five years.

With water bills set to rise by up to 30%, companies will need to consider how efficiently such resources are being used and move towards greater environmental sustainability.

The Aqua-Save solution is to treat, recover and reuse waste water within the user's own premises, thereby removing the high cost and inconvenience of off-site disposal, as well as the added benefits of recycling the water back into industrial processes.

The only effluent resulting from the Aqua-Save is a concentrated oily waste that typically represents less than 5% of the original volume.

The introduction of the Aqua-Save Junior brings the benefits of this technology to users whose processes create relatively small amounts of waste water. The Junior can process up to 15 litres of waste water per hour whilst its larger counterpart can produce up to 50 litres over the same period. Whilst this meets an ever growing number of industrial applications - particularly given the mobility of the Aqua-Save system - the concept has also recently found larger scale aplications in the treatment and recycling of waste solutions that include machine coolants, floor cleaning machine waste and rinse waters from other industrial processes.

Benefits of the Aqua-Save System:

Environmentally Friendly, virtually eliminating waste disposal
Compact System, requiring minimal floorspace
Fully automatic operation with PLC control
Media and Chemical Free Treatment System - no chemical additives or filter membranes required
Enclosed System - no fumes or vapours
Elimination of waste water, leaving only oily
concentrates for disposal
Re-use of recovered water in process plant
or for safe disposal to drain
Concentration of a wide range of aqueous
solutions including:
 
Acid and alkaline cleaners
Oil emulsions
Machining coolants
Dye-penetrant solutions
Maintenance cleaners
Other process solutions

Before and after

The answer to:
Trade effluent Poor quality ISO14001 pressure
Dirty components Climate Change Levy High water usage
High labour costs High disposal costs High energy costs
Lost production Waste reduction