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Alum and iron salts are generally used to promote coagulation in the production of clean drinking water which results in the generation of significant quantities of drinking water sludge. The Alum sludge is typically mechanically dewatered and is currently treated as a waste which cannot be processed through traditional sewage sludge disposal methods and in many cases goes to landfill. This additional cost burden of collection, transport and disposal cost is common to all water treatment plants.
The AquaCritox® unit from SCFI can turn this environmental and cost issue into a sustainable and economically sound solution. Using the patented AquaCritox® process it is possible to recover the coagulant as pure aluminium or iron hydroxide which can be reconstituted to generate new coagulant for reuse.
Learn more by downloading the article: Alum recovery from Alum Sludge using AquaCritox.pdf
Read MoreSCFI’s Aquacritox Unit was featured in The Water and Wastewater Newsletter (April 4). The article detailed the Aquacritox process and technology and included and interview with SCFI’s Chief Operating Officer – David Kerr.
To read the full article - click here.
Read MoreSCFI’s AquaCritox technology was recently featured as the cover-story for Technology Ireland - April. The article, entitled The Blue Challenge, describes the many water related challenges we are facing and the “blue revolution” in water technologies arising to meet these problems – including AquaCritox.
Download the PDF Article here: The Blue Challenge – Technology Ireland – April 2011
Read MoreSCFI’s Aquacritox technology was featured in the Irish Times Innovation section on February 25th, 2011.The article details the super critical water oxidation technology, the Eras Eco commissioning of the first commercial scale system from SCFI at Youghal Ireland, and the InterTradeIreland Innova project between SCFI and Northern Ireland partners Cleanfields and Williams Industrial Services.
To read the article on the Irish Times website – click here.
Or download a scanned copy here:
SCFI in Irish Times Innovation Section