Pre-Treatment
Ovivo defines pre-treatment as the stage of water and wastewater treatment prior to the main process elements. Typically, this will include the removal of impurities (screening, grit removal etc), pH adjustment, cooling and flow balancing (buffer capacity with possible aeration and mixing) in order to protect more sensitive downstream process units or processes from damage or limited efficiency, effectiveness or life.
Process
Pre-treatment processes can involve chemical dosing, sedimentation, cooling, screening and grit removal and media filtration. Typical issues that are handled with pre-treatment processes are for example:
- Debris and bulk solids which could damage pumps and rotation machinery
- Particulate matter which could foul fine media ion exchange resins or media
- Oxidising agents which would attack membranes or resins
- Organics, fats, oils and greases which could foul subsequent equipment
- High temperatures which could compromise biological processes
- High or low pH which can attack equipment and disturb biological processes
- High flow peaks or lack of steady flow which can disturb processes or equipment
Our Expertise
Effective pre-treatment is essential in any water or wastewater treatment processes, using the right equipment to remove the right constituent or otherwise treat water for next process step; in many cases, process system failures can be traced back to problems in pre-treatment.
There is bewildering array of technologies for use as pre-treatment, including numerous types of screens, chemical dosing systems, heat exchangers, cooling towers, clarifiers, filters and flotation devices. Ovivo has developed many such devices specific to individual problems, and has unrivalled experience to help clients through this veritable minefield. Ovivo can be relied upon to select the most beneficial process, not only to be capital cost-effective, but also to give reliable low-cost operation and whole-life costs. Ovivo has expertise from wide area of industry like pulp &paper, petrochemicals, food &beverage and power as well as municipal sector to name few and knows right solutions for your business.
Ovivo’s solution to Red Tide
One particular example is the advent of algal blooms in The Gulf. This so-called Red Tide has been a major problem for many systems, but with our extensive experience, we have a pre-treatment methodology that enables our RO desalination plants to continue to run through these incursions.
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