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Saltworks Technologies CEO Ben Sparrow joins us to explore wastewater treatment processes and specifically zero liquid discharge systems. Ben does a great job walking us through the steps of the industrial wastewater treatment process and identifying instances that are ripe for zero liquid discharge applications.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- What zero liquid discharge is
- Differences between municipal wastewater treatment and industrial wastewater treatment
- The discrete steps in industrial wastewater treatment
- Why industrial wastewater treatment begins prior to primary use
- Why adding chemicals isn’t always ideal to industrial wastewater treatment
- Why membranes are often the beset and lowest cost option for industrial wastewater treatment
- The point at which industrial wastewater treatment begins to dramatically increase in cost
- How wastewater treatment can actually be a profit center
- How the water-energy nexus is impacted in the industrial wastewater treatment process
- Uses for waste heat in the treatment process
- The economics of zero liquid discharge and near zero liquid discharge
Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:
- Saltworks Technologies’ website
- Saltworks blog post on Zero Liquid Discharge
- Website (SAMCO) on Zero Liquid Discharge
- Website (Suez) on Zero Liquid Discharge
- TWV #020: How Do We Clean Up Water from Industrial Processes? With Forbes Guthrie
- TWV #079: Water Use in Industrial Processes with Grant Newhouse
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