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OPUS® Technology: An Innovation For Cooling Tower Blowdown Treatment

Source: Veolia Water Technologies

OPUS® technology achieves a high water recovery rate, producing effluent suitable for reuse. The major benefits for Power Plants is an increase in the cycles of concentration in your cooling tower, resulting in reduced water and chemical use while minimizing waste discharge from your facility.

OPUS® Technology is a patented Optimized Pretreatment and Unique Separation process developed for the treatment of complex wastewater streams such as cooling tower blowdown. OPUS Technology utilizes reverse osmosis (RO) operated at an elevated pH. The pretreatment processes ahead of the RO are designed to reduce the hardness, metals and suspended solids in the feed water. The elevated pH of the RO feed water effectively controls biological, organic and particulate fouling, eliminates scaling due to silica, and increases the rejection of silica and boron.

Click Here To Download:
•Brochure: OPUS® II – Our Latest Innovation Of Optimized Pretreatment And Unique Separation Technology
•Brochure: OPUS® Optimized Pretreatment and Unique Separation Process
•Datasheet: Mobile Pilot Demonstration of OPUS® Technology

OPUS is available with two RO pretreatment options:

  1. Our original design utilizes degasification (if required), chemical softening, media filtration and ion exchange softening prior to the RO system.
  2. OPUS® II, our latest innovation, streamlines the pretreatment steps through the use of CeraMem® ceramic membranes. The ceramic membrane system consists of a series of reaction tanks followed by a crystallization tank fitted with our patented Turbomix™ reactor prior to the ceramic membranes.

OPUS Technology Benefits

  • High Water Recovery Rate / Low Waste Volume
  • Robust, Reliable Treatment with Minimal Downtime
  • Handles Feed Water Variability
  • Low Energy Consumption
  • Effective Scaling and Fouling Control
  • High Salt Rejection for Removal of TDS, organics, metals and metalloids
  • Continuous RO Clean-In-Place Process

Additional Benefits of OPUS II

  • Compact Design
  • Fewer Treatment Steps

Application Expertise Ensures the Best Solution Our process engineers will help determine the best solution for your application based on your wastewater characteristics, desired effluent water quality and a cost/benefit analysis.

Pilot Testing Enables Process Guarantee Our pilot units, capable of treating 20 gpm of cooling tower blowdown, are deployed to your site, enabling us to optimize the process performance and minimize cost of the final design. Either design configuration can be pilot tested, enabling us to deliver a process guarantee for your full-scale installation.

Flexible Project Delivery Options

Our project delivery can be tailored to meet your purchasing preferences. Options include:

  • Engineer/Procure with optional service contract
  • Design/Build
  • Design/Build/Operate
  • Design/Build/Own/Operate

Click Here To Download:
•Brochure: OPUS® II – Our Latest Innovation Of Optimized Pretreatment And Unique Separation Technology
•Brochure: OPUS® Optimized Pretreatment and Unique Separation Process
•Datasheet: Mobile Pilot Demonstration of OPUS® Technology