Effective Water Filtration Tech Saves Water

Water Filtration Technology That Will Provide Significant Savings on Water, Downtime and Energy Whilst Increasing Productivity and Efficiency

Steve Cupples is an engineer and the managing director of UK based Industrial Purification Systems (IPS) which manufactures CrossFlow HEMF, one of the most effective high efficiency water filtration systems currently on the market.

Industry worldwide uses water in many different ways and in different amounts, therefore water saving technology, in many cases, is used in multiple applications.The commonalities however are that highly efficient water saving techniques are proven to not only reduce an organisations carbon footprint but also to make huge savings on energy bills and improve production and performance.

In many operations within the manufacturing, industrial and commercial sectors the use of water is often an accepted process cost.There is scant attention paid to reducing such a significant service cost with fixing leaking taps often being the extent of energy saving in this area.

With water, unlike with electricity or gas, the consumer pays for both the supply of water to the plant and once used he pays again for its disposal.Pity the process that contaminates this valuable resource as the cost of treating water effluent is based on many factors, including added solids, heat, pH and volume. And under the policy of "the polluter pays" this cost of effluent treatment is ever increasing.

CROSSFLOW HEMF - giving you cleaner water than ever before

Finding effective water filtration technology that will provide significant savings on water, downtime and energy whilst increasing productivity and efficiency has been a real issue for many years until CrossFlow HEMF was launched onto the market 5 years ago.

Since then, taking on the task of educating industry on installing this technology has been an up-hill battle because we have had the added task of educating industry to take more notice of their water quality. But industry is now having its ‘Eureka' moment.With more and more organisations installing and running this technology the results speak for themselves and this year we received approval by the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) for the application in England and Wales of CrossFlow HEMF by relevant water companies for public water supply purposes.

"The CrossFlow HEMF worked a treat. Within a matter of days the filter technology had fixed the problem and, on-going, we believe the same water quality is being achieved. Quite honestly it was the best thing we could have done because it has saved us the loss of production time."

"Through applying high efficiency water filtration as a bolt on to the overall operation of our plant, the backwash process becomes very efficient and reliable. With the volume of water needed for a successful backwash being less and because it is automatic, operative site visits are now down to every two weeks. Cornelsen Ltd

"When this filtration technology was first installed our contractors were sceptical of how well it would perform on the dirty coloured water within the system. However, after only two weeks we noticed a considerable improvement in the water quality." Sheffield Homes

As a process water user you can save money by the installation of CrossFlow HEMF, and at the same time reduce operating costs. This technology will filter water down to levels below 1.0 micron reliably producing a supply of clean water not only free of solids contamination such as sand, grit and iron, but also reducing bacteria, phages and spores such as cryptosporidium.

By reducing the total biological and organic loading from water, chemical dosing is more effective as there is less of a challenge. This in turn often results in significant chemical use reduction which is better for the water user, better for the environment and reduces operational costs. Industries who have installed this technology have reported a return of investment in less than six months; in fact some have achieved payback in three.

Benefits:

• Filtration of process water down to 0.45 micron with efficiencies up to 99%
• Filtration up to 5 times more effective than a conventional filter achieving only 20 micron filtration
• Longer "on line" filtration time with automatic backwash cleaning
• Acceptance of solid challenges in access of 200 ppm
• Short backwash times
• Achieve more effective chemical treatment with less chemicals
• Maintain near design heat transfer efficiencies for life of a system
• Cleaning up older already contaminated systems and improving performance
• Reducing backwash loss by up to 95%
• Reducing costs by reducing loss of chiller and or heater kW input during backwash
• Inlet pressure of only 1.0barg to operate
• Minimum energy losses for pumping and processing through high flow low pressure

Source: Pandct

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