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Forward Water Technologies uses Aquaporin Wilo and Borussia Dortmund extend
Inside membranes partnership to 2024

Canadian company Forward Water Technologies’ industrial scale German pump technology specialist Wilo and Bundesliga football
pilot plant has shown that low cost, low energy consumption Zero team Borussia Dortmund have extended their partnership for a
Liquid Discharge (ZLD) is now possible using its own two-phase further four years to 2024.
forward osmosis process and the Aquaporin Inside membranes.
“Our partnership with Borussia Dortmund gives Wilo a
The plant is cleaning oil and gas flow back water and produced tremendous driving force and a strong appeal amongst our
water, achieving almost distillation quality drinking water with customers and partners. It’s seen as a sign of warmth and
a reduction in waste output of 60-70%. Forward osmosis uses authenticity, even internationally – for example, it goes down well
natural osmotic pressure with the dirty water on one side of in the Asian markets that are very important for us,” said Oliver
the membrane and a heavily saline draw solution on the other. Hermes, president and CEO of the Dortmund-headquartered
Once the draw solution is diluted, it can be sent to a secondary Wilo Group.
separation process, such as evaporation, to separate the clean
water from the saline, but this is energy intensive and expensive. “It’s really good news for us to know that we’ll have a great
partner from our home town at our side for at least four more
Forward Water’s draw solution converts into gas with a small years – a partner we can trust and work well with, particularly
amount of heat and this gives pure, clean drinking water. The in the increasingly important field of environmental protection,”
Aquaporin Inside membrane has no significant reverse salt flux, said Borussia Dortmund Managing Director Carsten Cramer.
cutting out the brine scrubbing process. While Wilo is an international group, the company is proud of
its roots in Dortmund. Borussia Dortmund’s home ground, the
The membranes are covered in a thin layer of aquaporins, making Signal Iduna Park, is equipped with Wilo products.
the membrane extremely selective, minimising reverse salt flux
with high rejection levels and ensuring the high quality of the
recovered water. GWE partnership reduces waste in starch factory

Veolia launches SIRION Advanced for Global Water & Energy (GWE), part of the Global Water
process water Engineering Group of companies, has designed a new
wastewater treatment plant for a Russian starch factory. The
Through Solys, its internal manufacturing and global logistics factory has doubled its corn processing capabilities and mitigated
platform, Veolia Water Technologies has released the SIRION its environmental impact by installing the new wastewater plant.
Advanced, a compact, plug-and-play reverse osmosis system for GWE’s team will manage part of the project and train staff to
high purity water production which integrates the company’s operate the plant.
AQUAVISTA digital services.
The industrial effluents generated during maize processing
The company says that SIRION Advanced can remove up to contain different types and concentrations of impurities, requiring
98% of dissolved inorganics and over 99% of large dissolved effective physical-chemical and biological treatment steps to
organics, colloids and particles. It is designed for most industrial remove or neutralise harmful mixtures. The multi-step treatment
sectors and reuse projects and consists of 11 fully standardised line includes several GWE technologies, including its ANUBIX –
models for each required permeate flow, from 100 to 5,000 l/h. B Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Bed (UASB) system.

The main new features of the SIRION Advanced include a 7 This anaerobic reactor is designed to maximise the removal of
in touchscreen HMI, a design which is simple to integrate into organic contamination from wastewater and works with both
standardised treatment lines and the membrane pressure vessel granular and flocculant sludge. GWE’s ANUBIX technologies
length has been reduced to only 1 m for easy transportation. enhance effluent quality and can also transform the organic
industrial wastewater and waste into biogas to be used as
It also offers fast commissioning as the upgraded design does not a renewable fuel source at the factory. After the anaerobic
require dismantling and reassembly on-site and the system starts treatment, the residual organic contamination is removed in the
up within two hours. The instrumentation and valves at the front ACTIVOX - a conventional activated sludge system followed by
of the unit make maintenance and operation straightforward as a final clarifier.
there is no hidden connection.

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