Producing clean water
Municipal & decentralized potable water. Groundwater polishing — nanofiltration for hardness, color and organics, with catalytic media for iron and manganese ahead of the membranes; ultrafiltration as a pathogen barrier on surface waters; brackish reverse osmosis with remineralization and blending to meet drinking-water standards (EU Drinking Water Directive 2020/2184 and national codes). Small-footprint skid systems for municipalities, housing developments, hotels and bottlers.
Industrial process water. Boiler feed and make-up trains for power and heating plants (softening or UF → RO → EDI or mixed-bed polishing), condensate polishing, cooling-tower make-up and blowdown recovery. Multi-pass RO with EDI, degasification and polishing loops toward ultrapure specifications for electronics and data centers. Pharmaceutical Purified Water and Highly Purified Water trains engineered around EP/USP monographs with sanitary, hot-water-sanitizable design. Spot-free rinse water for surface treatment and paint shops.
Desalination. Brackish wellfield RO from single skids to multi-train plants, including high-recovery configurations with concentrate staging and inter-stage boost. Seawater RO with isobaric energy-recovery devices; boron management via a second pass or pH-shifted operation; containerized plug-and-play units for coastal and island sites, camps and seasonal demand.
Agriculture & horticulture. Irrigation and fertigation water for greenhouses and nurseries — RO or tight NF to control the sodium, chloride and boron that cap yields of sensitive crops, blended to the target conductivity; rainwater and drain-water polishing in closed-loop growing systems.
Emerging duties. PFAS barriers — RO and tight NF reject long- and short-chain PFAS ahead of destruction technologies. Water-reuse trains (MBR/UF → RO → UV-AOP) driven by tightening European urban-wastewater and industrial-emissions rules. Ultrapure feedwater for hydrogen electrolyzers.
Example solutions
Iron- and hardness-bearing well water for a hotel or bottler
Groundwater with dissolved iron and manganese, high hardness and slight color — staining, scale and off-taste in the product.
Aeration or oxidant dosing → catalytic media filtration for Fe/Mn → cartridge filtration → nanofiltration or softener + RO → calcite remineralization → UV disinfection.
NF removes hardness, color and most organics in one pass without brine-intensive softening of the full flow; blending sets the exact final hardness.
Water analysis review, projection, vessel and element selection, supplier RFQs, commissioning and a normalization baseline for the operator.
Boiler feed water for a heating or power plant
Raw-water conductivity and silica drive blowdown losses, chemical consumption and turbine or boiler deposit risk.
Softening or UF pretreatment → single- or double-pass RO → EDI or mixed-bed polishing → degassing; condensate polishing where justified.
Demineralized make-up at <0.2 µS/cm with silica controlled to boiler-code limits, cutting blowdown and dosing chemistry substantially versus ion exchange alone.
Train sizing against the steam balance, silica and CO₂ management strategy, bid levelling between IX-based and membrane-based offers.
Seawater desalination for a coastal site
No reliable municipal supply; trucked water is expensive and seasonal demand peaks are hard to cover.
Open intake or beach well → UF or media pretreatment → 5 µm cartridge → high-pressure pump with isobaric energy recovery → SWRO → remineralization and blending — often containerized.
Intake type and fouling regime, energy-recovery selection, boron strategy, materials (super-duplex on the high-pressure side), remote monitoring for unmanned operation.
Feasibility with specific-energy and lifecycle cost comparison, supplier screening, FAT/SAT and start-up support.
Irrigation water for a greenhouse operation
Well or surface water carries sodium, chloride and boron that accumulate in the root zone and cap yields; fertigation recipes drift with feed quality.
Media and cartridge filtration → RO or tight NF sized to the sodium target → blending to the target EC → fertigation dosing; drain-water disinfection and reuse in closed systems.
Stable, recipe-grade irrigation water year-round; drain-water recirculation cuts both water intake and nutrient discharge.
Feed analysis against crop-tolerance data, recovery optimization to limit concentrate, sourcing of horticulture-grade skids.
Water reuse or PFAS barrier for an industrial site
Tightening discharge permits, PFAS obligations, or the need to recycle treated effluent back into utilities or irrigation.
Tertiary UF or MBR → RO → UV or UV-advanced oxidation; PFAS-tight NF/RO with defined concentrate handling ahead of destruction or licensed disposal.
Recovery versus concentrate fate, credit for reduced intake water, monitoring and validation regime required by the permit.
Regulatory-driven option study, piloting protocol, projections and procurement of the selected train.
