Water. Desalination + reuse
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Water. desalination + reuse March 2017 Far Site 27 Brine technology goes commercial FIRM'S FIRST SALE • Modern Water's AMBC system was successfully piloted in 2016 • To be installed at a facility in India • Completion scheduled mid 2017 • Rapid order testifies to system's competitive cost, says director • Claims higher brine concentration than conventional Modern Water has secured the first sale of its proprietary All- Membrane Brine Concentration (AMBC) technology, to a textile dyes company in India, a•er successful pilot plant testing in 2016. The project is in partnership with Advent Envirocare Technology under a joint commercialisation agreement for brine concentration in India signed in March 2016. The two jointly funded the pilot. "The whole concept of our brine concentration came about by us looking at ways to generate high osmotic pressure solutions. Where seawater reverse osmosis finishes, our process and other processes like thermal brine concentrators take over. "In terms of energy consumption, AMBC is quite a bit less than anything that's using thermal energy, or even electrical energy, to run a vapour compressor. Energy-wise it's significant, and capex-wise clearly it's competitive given this order very rapidly a•er pilot testing," says Modern Water technical director Peter Nicoll. The company says the pilot "clearly demonstrated it can achieve higher brine concentration than conventional technologies, significantly reducing the wastewater volume for subsequent brine crystalliser treatment. By integrating AMBC into their zero liquid discharge projects, customers can substantially reduce capital costs and operating costs." The AMBC technology developed out of Modern Water's early focus on forward osmosis desalination, through which it developed extensive knowledge of osmotically driven membrane processes. Modern Water samples: textile factory wastewater and the permeate from the process