| Acid Mine Drainage |
VSEP helps meet discharge guidelines, recycles water and improves mine economics |
| Black Liquor |
VSEP pre-concentrates black liquor in pulp and paper mills to reduce evaporator load and cut energy costs |
| Boiler Feed Water |
VSEP improves industrial boiler performance and reduces blowdown frequency by a factor of ten |
| Box & Bag Plant Effluent |
VSEP helps box and bag plant meet discharge limits and pre-concentrates starch prior to evaporation |
| Colloidal Silica |
VSEP replaces centrifuges, cuts energy costs and reduces evaporator load |
| Coolant Recovery |
VSEP helps Shanghai automotive factory achieve a 100X reduction in C.O.D. |
Desalter Effluent
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VSEP debottlenecks refiinery and provides nearly instantaneous payback |
| Drinking Water |
VSEP treats well and surface water to provide ultra clean drinking water |
| Ethanol Production |
VSEP beats decanter centrifuge at solids removal from ethanol biomass |
| Ethanol Production (2) |
An overview of VSEP's role in ethanol production |
| Fuel Storage Tank Bottom Water |
VSEP recovers fuel and creates a clean water stream that exceeds discharge requirements |
| Glycol Recovery |
VSEP recycles airplane deicing fluid, protects the environment and provides eight month payback |
| Industrial Wastewater & Fluid Recycling |
VSEP replaces crossflow membrane systems, filtering industrial wastewater at pulp and paper mills |
| Industrial Laundry Wastewater Treatment |
VSEP recycles 80% of water for Seattle laundry and provides rapid return on investment |
| Landfill Leachate |
VSEP helps landills to meet strict discharge guidelines by removing suspended solids and dissolved organics and inorganics from landfill leachate |
| Lanthanide Mining/Milling Effluent |
VSEP filters mine tailing pond effluent with no pre-treatment required |
| Latex Emulsion Concentration |
VSEP concentrates PVC latex to 68% solids and reduces spray dryer load |
| Medium Density Fiberboard |
VSEP treats thermomechanical pumping effluent with no pre-treatment required at a major MDF plant |
| Manure Slurry Filtration |
Filter manure slurries directly before, after, or in place of anearobic digesters with a reverse osmosis VSEP membrane system, providing potable water for the animals and a concentrated nutrient feedstock for fertilizer. |
| Metal Hydroxide Treatment |
VSEP filters mixed metal hydroxides and improves efficiency at an Electrochemical Machining facility |
| Metal Plating |
VSEP treats metal plating wastewater with no chemical addition and a filtrate well below MP&M discharge limits |
| Oily Wastewater |
VSEP's low operating cost and superior performance provide a high-tech alternative for oily wastewater processing |
| Organic & Inorganic Pigment Concentrating |
VSEP concentrates pigment additives to 70% solids and provides quick payback |
| Organic & Inorganic Pigment Washing |
VSEP recovers pigment and provides filtrate that exceeds discharge requirements |
Paper Coating Effluent
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VSEP recycles coating material and water for reuse in paper coating facility |
| Polymer Diafiltration |
Diafiltration of polymers with VSEP provides unprecedented performance and product quality with no pretreatment |
| Phosphate Filtration |
VSEP filters phosphate products, adding value while improving efficiency |
| Precious Metals Recovery |
VSEP provides crystal clear permeate and recovers precious metals from the mining leachate at 97% recovery |
Produced Water
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VSEP filters produced water, saving money while protecting the environment |
| RO Reject (brine) |
VSEP takes reverse osmosis where
it has never been before, further concentrating
RO reject (brine) streams to increase
overally recovery to 99%. |
| Ultra-pure Water |
River water is filtered for use in an electronic disk manufacturing facility in Hokkaido, Japan |
| Waste Oil Recycling |
VSEP recycles used motor oil at 90°C providing a filtrate suitable for use as marine grade diesel fuel or lube oil feedstock |
| Whitewater |
VSEP removes fibers, fines and fillers from paper mill whitewater and provides a filtrate suitable for reuse |
