APPLICATION OF ADVANCED MEMBRANE PROCESSES FOR TREATMENT OF WATER AND VARIOUS EFFLUENTS

Description: Available know-how, laboratory equipment and pilot units for application of Micro-Filtration (MF), Ultra-filtration (UF), Nano-Filtration (NF) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) to the treatment of potable water and of practically all kinds of liquid effluents.

Applications / Novel Characteristics

• Improvement of potable water quality. Removal of all types of toxic substances (heavy metals, pesticides, nitrates, etc.).
• Treatment of industrial effluents for useful materials recovery and water reuse.
• Novel processes (based on MBR-Membrane Bio-Reactors) for municipal effluent treatment and water recycling.

Possible users / Customers

• Industry: Applications to cope with all types of effluents (chemical industry, food processing, textile plants, etc.).
• Municipal water and sewerage companies and various water treatment SME’s.

Examples

• Phosphorus Fertilizers Industry, Greece: Industrial effluents treatment for recovering useful materials and water recycling.

Membrane pilot unit for medium pressure applications e.g. brackish water desalination, industrial water treatment

APPLICATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF MEMBRANE PROCESSES FOR BRACKISH AND SEA-WATER DESALINATION

Description: Available know-how and special laboratory equipment and pilot units including UF, NF, RO systems for the design of new, and problem identification and improvement of operating, membrane desalination plants.

Applications / Novelties

• Study and application of specialized systems for treating degraded (brackish, polluted) water sources. 
• Identification and mitigation of membrane fouling, due to organic substances, colloids, salts etc. 
• Special autopsies of used membrane elements to diagnose operating problems. 
• Study of feed-water pretreatment for membrane processes.

Possible customers

• Industrial desalination plants, with various feed waters.
• Municipal water and sewerage companies, for utilization of brackish and/or polluted water sources.
• Industry and SME’s dealing with filter media, membranes, desalination units, etc.

Examples

• Maxit SA, Norway: Pilot studies and assessment of special filter media for pre-treatment of sea-water.
• Aramco, S. Arabia: Reverse Osmosis membrane treatment for improved performance
• Caramondani Desalination Plants, Cyprus: Special autopsies of RO membranes

Membrane pilot unit for high pressure applications, sea water desalination

ANALYSES FOR COMPLETE CHARACTERIZATION OF WATER SOURCES

Description: State of the art laboratory equipment for complete and specialized measurements, including GC/MS, HPLC, GPC, GC, TOC/DOC.

Applications / Novelties

• Analyses to identify micro-pollutants in drinking water sources, i.e. pesticides, other toxic substances (DBP, THM, antibiotics etc.).
• Complete analyses and physico-chemical measurements (in collabo-ration with Analytical Laboratory).
• Characterization of Geothermal fluids and industrial effluents.

Possible customers

• Municipal water and sewerage companies as well as public and private organizations dealing with water quality monitoring.
• Industry and SME’s producing/marketing water treatment equipment, filter media, etc.
• Various process industries concerned/dealing with effluents.
• Geothermal plants/units.

Examples

• Analyses and characterization of drinking water sources and geothermal fluids from various regions in Greece (Attiki, Peloponnese, Macedonia).