Activities

Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD)  is the utmost goal of all our projects. ZLD allows our customers to reduce their environmental impact and to overcome current and future regulations. As such, FAR designed, built and services an installation which was awarded the Water Trophee by one French Water Agency for the best industrial project in 2017.  

Watch the video describing this industrial success which has allowed our Customer to dismantle his physico-chemical treatment plant and reach ZLD. 

When production expansion was jeopardized by water scarcity , the implementation of this technology also allowed total reuse of the treated water.

This project brought a real added-value for the company, environmentally and financially speaking.

Water and oil separation is the historical application developed by FAR Water. This technology is used in many industrial sectors such as:

• Marine (water separators approved 15ppm according to IMO MARPOL 107 (49)
• Mechanical and Automotive Industry: Cutting oils, forming oils, coolants, washing and rinsing effluents, etc.
• Surface treatment
• Fracking water
• Oily leakage and sea water decontamination
• Oil & Gas industry

Physico-chemical treatment is the most common process used in metals removal. The application of coagulants, flocculants, and other reagents generates a large volume of waste, and  makes more difficult the reuse of treated water. A physico-chemical station requires the full-time intervention of qualified technicians which makes its operation more expensive. Furthermore, this technology shows its limits when the discharge standards are tights.

FAR Water has developed a fully automated replacement process for physico-chemical stations. Our solution allows an efficient reuse of all of the treated water and in some cases process chemicals can be maintained dissolved in treated water. The removal rates reached are usually higher than conventional treatments. 

The volume of waste generated is significantly reduced. In case of total recycling of water, customers are no longer subject to the regulatory constraints related to discharge standards, and its further evolution.

“Hard COD” is the COD that resists a given treatment and more precisely hard COD is the COD resisting any biological treatment in the aqueous phase.

 We can also say that the hard COD is  the remaining one when there is no more BOD5 in the effluent.

Color is a special case of hard COD, in which the visual component makes it easily detectable in the environment. For this very reason, it has been subject to numerous complaints from residents and fishermen.

In the case of a flexographic ink operation,, we have succeeded in reducing the COD via 2 stages from 180,000 mg / l to 800 mg / l by significantly reducing the color being in the effluents.

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are now requiring from manufacturers to control micropollutants in their effluents.. These micropollutants are detected in the majority of industrial waste waters and are complex to eliminate.

FAR Water has developed a process allowing very high, even total, removal of micropollutants.

A project executed in textile industry has demonstrated high removal rates for micropollutants suchs as

• Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) 
• glyphosate
• Di(2-ethylhexyl)phtalate (DEHP)