Raw & waste Water Treatment
Overview
Reuse of water is key to preserving our natural resources and waste water treatment is an integral part of this. Waste water treatment plants are rarely at optimal performance and often money is literally going down the drain. The right products and approach can help you to help your customers improve the quality of their waste water discharge thus minimising environmental impact.
The particular challenges of waste water treatment vary from site to site and industry to industry. The challenges may include issues from both inorganic and organic contaminants which can be detrimental to the toxicity, pH, colour, odour and/or oxygen demand of receiving waters.Klover Chemicals understands the complex chemical requirements of industrial wastewater treatment and has technical resources dedicated to support the needs of our customers operating in this area. We are committed to innovation in the solutions and technology we supply, and to providing the highest level of service to our customers. To support this ethos we have a broad range of chemistry solutions designed specifically for use in wastewater treatment.
Raw &
Waste Water Treatment Chemicals
Klover Chem understands the complex chemical requirements of industrial wastewater treatment and has technical resources dedicated to support the needs of our customers operating in this area.
pH adjustment may be required for a number of reasons: To directly precipitate out chemicals otherwise present as more soluble salts.
To increase the efficacy of any coagulants used. To enable discharge limits to be met. To maximize the concentration of the most efficient chlorine containing species for disinfection (e.g. hypochlorous acid vs hypochlorite).
Many of the solid particles in water are as suspended solids (a colloid). They are very small electrically charged particles which repel each other and will not settle out of suspension by gravity alone in a reasonable timeframe; hence the need for chemical treatment. This typically results in the removal of 80-90% of suspended solids by chemical precipitation.
The addition of flocculants brings the microflocs into contact resulting in their bonding and formation of flocs which are large enough for them to be separated out from the waste water. The flocculants are organic polymers (generally polyacrylamide) with varying charge densities and molecular weights. They act by forming a “bridge” between the microflocs.
Antifoam agents are often used in both sewage treatment plants as well as in other industrial waste water treatment applications. Klover Chem have a variety of antifoam formulations, both organic and inorganic. A small selection is shown below.
