Spiral Water Technologies, a California-based developer of advanced filtration solutions for difficult-to-treat waters, has expanded application of its award-winning technology into the solids management arena. Working directly with clients to create industry-specific solutions, the company has introduced a filter system that offers a new waste management strategy that could prove valuable to the food & beverage sector, as well as other industries with high solids processing issues.
Spiral Water’s new filter system integrates the company’s automatic self-cleaning filter with proprietary sensor technology that measures build-up of solids electronically and automatically activates a valve to purge them. Because Spiral Water’s patented automatic filtration technology allows one-pass low micron filtration, requiring no backwash or crossflow, the high and variable solids are automatically concentrated and purged in the process. This enables easy solids recovery and management, and the major reduction in diluted wastewater can significantly lower clean-up expenses.
Market applications for the Spiral Water filtration system include oil and gas produced water; industrial water; desalination; wastewater reuse and recycling; marine and ballast water; mining; power generation and hydro power; food and beverage manufacturing; biodiesel/biofuels; and pretreatment for microfiltration, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis.