Type of industries
- Recycling
- Production
- Automotive
- Mechanical
- Printing
- Surface treatment companies
- Galvanic world
- Small & Big production companies having dirty liquid waste
The companies are regularly confronted with consequent volumes of liquid waste.
And unfortunately an important percentage of this waste is composed of water.
That is what gave the idea to reduce the volume of waste by recovering water by distillation. To lower the energy needs, two processes are used: the flash distillation, allowing an evaporation at low temperature (+-40°C) and the use of heat pump, allowing an extremely reduced energy consumption.
And when the customer disposes over heat and cold, the need of energy nearly disappears.
This process showed already its prove for a long time and has a very short ROI(Return One Investment), considering the realised economy.
Interesting ranges of machines
- the WSC E range: forced circulation and an external shell & tube heat exchanger
- the WSC R range: with jacket type heat exchanger & scraped heat surface
The WSC E range of OFRU
The WSC is the range of evaporators which uses heat pump for the treat of many kinds of waste water.
This technology has been refined over many years in terms of flexibility, low energy consumption, and reliability.
The priority has been put on the energy consumption, which is the lowest on the market.
Main benefits of heat pump
- Significant reduction of COD in the distillate
- High yield & low quantity of concentrate to dispose of
- Control of foaming
- Excellent separation of surfactants
- Total separation of metals
- Consistent distillate quality
- Fully automatic operation
- Low maintenance
Materials
Ofru in co-operation with respected materials research centres, selects the most suitable materials for the safe management of aggressive liquids.
The resistance to corrosion is the main features of every WSC evaporators, essential when dealing with extremely concentrated liquids.
Austenic stainless steel AISI 316L (Number: 1.4435 – X2 CrNiMo 18-14-3)
Austenic weakly bound structure, non-hardening, non-magnetic. The low percentage of Carbon in this alloy reduces the risk of intergranular corrosion at high temperatures.
Uses: alkaline liquids, acid liquids (pH>4) with a low percentage of chlorides, oil emulsions, liquids from flexographic printing.
Superduplex stainless steel (Number: 1.4410 – X2 CrNiMo 25-7-4)
Austenic-ferritic structure, magnetic. The high percentage of Chrome gives excellent resistance to localised corrosion.
Uses: acid liquids (pH>3) with high chloride and metals content, galvanic waste waters, landfill leachate.
Nickel alloy (Number: 2.4819 – NiMo 16 Cr15 W)
High flexibility Cr-Ni.Mo steel. The low Carbon content ensures resistance to the formation of carbides at zones exposed to thermal variation. It has excellent resistance to localised corrosion, both in oxidising and reducing environments, even at high temperatures.
Uses: very acid liquids (pH>2) with high content of chlorides, fluorides and metals, anodising waste waters, special applications.
Silicon Carbide (SiC)
Chemically inert material resistant to almost all aggressive substances, usually matched with another chemically inert material, PTFE, a fluoride co-polymer used for coating the inner surfaces of the boiling chamber.
Uses: pickling waste waters, galvanic wastewaters, and aggressive liquids.
The WSC E range
E series is designed to produce maximum distillate quality with minimum capital and operating costs.
Each model is a compact skid-mounted unit, simple, safe and easy to move. Control is by a PLC, including the functions of feed and discharge, therefore allowing automatic operation and minimum supervision. All models are designed for continuous operation, 24hs/day, and require just an electrical supply and compressed air.
E series evaporators operate in a high vacuum condition, with the boiling chamber pressure set at 5-6 kPa (absolute), in order to save the thermal energy produced by the heat pump. In this way the boiling temperature of the waste water is approximately 40°C (104°F) and typical phenomena (scaling, precipitation, corrosion) which may reduce the performance are either eliminated or much reduced.
E evaporators are particularly suitable for:
- mechanical industry
- aluminium die-casting
- landfills and waste disposal
- graphic arts
- galvanic industry and surface treatments
- food & beverage
- chemical industry
Process Schema of the WSC E range
The WSC R range
In the R series the heat exchanger is, through a conical jacket at the base of the boiling chamber, while the inner heating surface is continuously cleaned by scrapers, which also act to stir the concentrate. This configuration is designed to produce a concentrate with a high final concentration and a distillate with low conductivity.
R Series is particularly suitable where:
- the waste water has a high initial content of dissolved or suspended solids
- the waste water is already pre-concentrated
- the daily volumes are relatively small
- the distillate has to be of the highest quality
- the concentrate has to be recycled
R Series is is the best solution for:
- waste disposal
- graphic arts
- chemical industry
- galvanic industry
Process schema of the WSC R Range
