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WATER & WASTEWATER back to top

Bega Valley - Four Municipal PURON® MBR Plants in Australia Municipal wastewater reuse for irrigation
The Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant Employs MegaMagnum® MM13 reverse osmosis trains to reclaim municipal effluent for use as the water supply for cooling towers at the Swanbank and the Torong power stations.
Canyon Regional Water Authority, TX Expansion of two ultrafiltration plants meets capacity and drinking water safety requirements -
PMPW™ -10 &  PMPW™ -8 pressure cartridges
Cass County, MO Installation of an ultrafiltration system in their water treatment plant using the ROMICON® 8” x 72" PMPW™ hollow fiber ultrafiltration cartridges
 
Datong Power By purifying the blow-down water with FLUID SYSTEMS® Reverse Osmosis technology, the cooling tower blow-down could replace the municipal water as a source for the boiler makeup water.
Joe White Maltings Pty. Ltd. - PURON® MBR & MegaMagnum® RO in Australia A new wastewater treatment plant, required to treat the effluent from the malting process, was built using PURON® MBR modules and MegaMagnum® RO elements.
KMS Assist® Service & Support Package Helps Keep Town of Franklin Water Facility in Top Shape Signing up with KMS ASSIST® Service & Support Package gave the Town of Franklin, Massachusetts just what it needed to keep its water treatment plant running at top performance.
The chief operator of the wastewater treatment plant at the Village of Tequesta in Palm Beach County, Fla., said that after the company installed two reverse osmosis systems back in 2000, it was more than eight years before the membranes needed to be cleaned.  Based on the superior performance of the RO systems, which have increased the capacity of the plant to more than 5 million gallons per day (mgd) of potable water, Tequesta now enjoys complete water supply autonomy.
Large Diameter Element Case Studies This paper will present case studies where MegaMagnum® elements (large diameter reverse osmosis elements) were used, including the reasons why large diameter elements were selected for specific projects.
Liaoning Zhuanghe Power Plant

The Zhuanghe Power Plant Taps the Sea with TARGA®-10 UF cartridges.  Only the first stage, seawater reverse osmosis, is required for the cooling water used by accessory equipment. Boiler makeup requires higher quality water that must also pass through the second stage, a brackish water reverse osmosis system.

Littleton, MA With the desire to remain in compliance with increasingly strict water regulations, Littleton investigated the latest in water purification. After extensive pilot studies, an ultrafiltration unit from Koch Membrane Systems was selected (PMPW™ ultrafiltration membrane).
MBR Effectively Removes Phosphorous The pilot study demonstrated that lower effluent phosphorous levels could be achieved with an MBR system in place of a biological removal process.
MECO Each Lightweight Water Purifier system employs three ROMICON® ROMIPURE® ultrafiltration cartridges; the RO module consists of seven FLUID SYSTEMS® TFC® spiral RO elements.
Membrane Bioreactor Provides Effective Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis Systems PURON® submerged MBR technology has successfully been used as the pretreatment option for challenging industrial and municipal water reuse RO systems, and can help make water recycling technologies more cost-effective.
Not Just A City Thing Small communities in Australia have adopted MBR technology for wastewater reclamation in rural areas.
Pioneering Water Reuse A New Mexico village implements a water conservation and potable reuse project using membrane technology.  The state-of-the-art system employs a second-generation membrane bioreactor (MBR) and a gravity-fed reverse osmosis system to treat wastewater flows that ultimately exceed drinking water quality standards.
Pressure Center Approach Very large MegaMagnum systems, on the order of 50 mgd (8,000 m3/h) are currently under consideration at several water authorities. The optimal configuration for such systems will likely be an array of racks, with each rack holding 12 pressure vessels in two vertical columns six vessels high. This is known as a “pressure center design” because a single pressure center can be used to pump water to all the racks, rather than a train design where each train has its own pump.
PURON™ MBR Effectively Removes Phosphorous Membrane filtration is utilized as the liquid solids separation method in a MBR to capture solids and results in a very low level of phosphorous in the treated water.
PURON® Module Replaces Existing Membrane System

Due to operating problems with the existing membrane module, a Dutch engineering company was asked to supply a new submerged membrane system for the plant, which treats the waste-water of their tank truck cleaning unit. They selected PURON® modules.

PURON® Overview MBR technology offers two main advantages over conventional biological wastewater treatment – significantly improved effluent quality and a substantially smaller WWTP footprint.
PURON® Retrofit A growing number of wastewater treatment plant operators have opted to replace their first generation MBR modules with PURON modules.
PURON® Demonstration Plant in Simmerath A WWTP in Germany was selected as the location for an MBR demonstration plant with PURON® modules
Seawater Reverse Osmosis System Workers at Chilean copper-gold mine port facilities will soon be quenching their thirst with drinking water from an innovative new seawater reverse osmosis ("RO") system supplied by KMS.  The system is the first full-scale large diameter membrane RO system for seawater that KMS has developed. 
Sobelgra - Largest Industrial MBR Plant in Belgium The capacity of the existing conventional wastewater treatment plant had to be doubled.  Due to lack of space on the factory site conventional technology could not be used.  Therefore, membrane technology was the only choice.  Since no additional space was required for the capacity enlargement, the existing infrastructure could be used for the upgrade.
Thélus - PURON® Modules Replace Existing MBR Membrane System

France plant owner selected the PURON® membrane modules for the replacement system resulting in lower energy consumption, improved denitrification and better effluent values.

Town of Waupun, Wisconsin 

Waupun treatment facility uses the MegaMagnum® Water Treatment System, a reverse osmosis (RO) system, for its water softening process.

Village Marine The ROMIPURE and TARGA-10 hollow fiber membrane cartridges have been tested in some of the most demanding industrial applications, and the Department of Defense was able to successfully build its new generation of mobile water purification systems around these commercially available, off-the-shelf components.
Water Treatment Tag-Teamed Seawater Cleanup The Zhuanghe plant in China chose TARGA-10® UF cartridges as the pretreatment solution because UF occupies a small footprint and provides higher-quality permeate than conventional pretreatment systems.  Also they are able to cost-effectively tap limitless seawater and avoid draining their scarce surface water resources.

FOOD & LIFE SCIENCES back to top

Benefits of Lees Filtration with Membranes
Lees treatment and product recovery presents one of the biggest challenges facing the wine industry, especially in light of new legislation limiting the disposal of unwanted by-products. The current development of crossflow filtration technology has led to new production and technological solutions which optimise the costs of filtration and avoid the need to use and dispose of finings at the end of the process.
Brewster Dairy To maximize membrane life as well as lower the cost of whey production, the Brewster, Ohio diary plant has installed XL-1000 HFK ultrafiltration spiral membranes from Koch Membrane Systems, Inc.
California Dairies California Dairies chose to install the dairy series HFK-131 UF spiral element from Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. The HFK membranes provide exceptionally high yields for whey and milk processing and, when compared with other membranes, reduce protein losses by as much as 33 percent.
Cost-effective Pilot Trials Cross-flow membrane technology has made great advances in recent decades.  It provides a technically innovative and cost-effective separation process that compares favorably to conventional separation processes such as distillation, extraction and crystallization.
Improving Membrane Cleaning - Tips and Techniques for Proper Cleaning Protocols

Crossflow membrane systems are widely used in the production of milk and whey products, where they may be used for concentration, clarification, and fractionation. Sanitation regulations require that food plant operators clean a membrane system frequently, typically once a day. Plant operators are looking to satisfy that responsibility while maximizing membrane life and minimizing expense and time.

 

KMS Expands into Biofuels

 

Membrane filtration technology, a tried and proven method used in many industrial process streams, is now being adopted in biofuels production and integrated biorefineries. Koch Membrane Systems, Inc (KMS) Food and Life Sciences group is helping companies utilize membranes to improve bioprocesses, lower overall energy costs and increase valuable product recovery.

 KMS Introduces New Lees Wine Treatment in Wineries Crossflow membrane filtration (CMF) technology has led to an improved method for recovering valuable wine and juice from lees.  This novel process entirely eliminates the need for diatomaceous earth (DE) and other filter aids currently used with traditional recovery techniques.
NF/ RO Membranes for Food & Life Science Applications KMS recently invested heavily in a new production line at its headquarters in Wilmington, Mass.  The system's fully automated membrane caster and coater will produce the current FLUID SYSTEMS® family of high rejection brackish and seawater membranes, KMS' selective rejection line of softening and color removal NF products, KMS' sanitary RO and NF products as well as KMS' line of high area, large diameter MegaMagnum® products.
Nitta Gelatin Use of the SR-3 nanofiltration system has proven to be a cost-effective solution for Nitta Gelatin by significantly reducing their energy expense while producing a cleaner gelatin product.
Peterson Farms Peterson Farms employs a once-through batch process utilizing a system containing 96 horizontally-mounted SUPER-G® tubular membrane modules from Koch Membrane Systems.
Proteus Proteus purchased a complete pre-engineered protein concentration system from KMS that employed ROMICON® cartridges containing hollow fiber membranes.  Despite the challenges of concentrating proteins at low temperature, the KMS systems perform well.
Sepallo Foods Sepallo commissioned KMS’s Systems Engineering Group to construct a full scale membrane filtration system, comprised of 24 SUPER-COR® HFM-513 ultrafiltration tubular membranes. The SUPER-COR membranes, which are designed specifically for clarification of high solid liquids, provide an extremely optimal product yield.
Winery Article KMS WINEFILTER™ crossflow microfiltration produces clear, stable, flavorful wine with significant savings in labor, maintenance, materials and disposal costs when compared to conventional filtration methods.

INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES back to top

Ames True Temper Ames True Temper, producers of non-powered lawn and garden tools, chose KPAK™ UF Membrane Modules to ramp up E-coat speed.  These membrane modules were lower in capital cost, more user friendly, and practically maintenance free.
ITC An ultrafiltration system employing TARGA®-10 hollow fiber membrane cartridges reduces boiler blowdown at India’s largest paperboard mill.
Metaldyne Case Study A KONSOLIDATOR™ 150 Industrial Wastewater System was installed. The pre-engineered, pre-packaged system contains 150 FEG™ PLUS tubular UF membranes, which handle extremely difficult oily wastewater.
Reverse Osmosis for Electrocoat Paint Ultrafiltrate at an Automotive Assembly Plant Reverse osmosis for cathodic electrocoat ultrafiltrate can be used not only for new plants but also existing plants to reduce deionized water consumption, reduce wastewater generated, improve paint solids recovery, and potentially to improve quality and reduce defects.
Whirlpool Case Study Whirlpool chose the KMS KONSOLIDATOR™ 78, a completely self-contained ultrafiltration system, utilizing FEG™ PLUS tubular membranes to handle the increasingly large volume and diversity of lubricants from their manufacturing processes. 

 



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