Industrial processes regularly require high water levels to flush, clean, cool and stabilise manufacturing processes. The water circuit when using mains can pick up contaminating particulates as well as transferring the process heat to the water, which once flushed down the drain, can have a number of consequences.
The Consequences of Effluent Water
The cost of waste water is high and effluent water incurs additional charges due to the filtration required to re-introduce the water to the network. High temperature waste water can also incur additional charges to cover the temperature fluctuation and the knock on effect to the sewage system. These implications can run into hundreds of thousands of pounds creating a huge impact on businesses.
Addressing these issues can not only help to improve a company’s green credentials but can also save your business money.
Combating waste water
There are numerous ways to combat waste water including converting open systems to closed systems by using chillers, adiabatic coolers and heat recovery, along with added filtration systems which can filter and cool waste water, reducing the cost implication to mains water users.
Waste Water Solutions
ICS Industrial Cooling has worked with customers with effluent waste water installing adiabatic coolers with plate heat exchanger and spin filters, helping to reduce water temperature from 52áµ’C to 35áµ’C. Whilst the filter removes particulates, installing these ICS products has saved customers over 100k for their customers, which has paid for the cooling and filtration multiple times over.
In further projects, ICS Industrial Cooling has worked with customers to replace existing cooling towers with adiabatic coolers saving 67% in running costs, which extends to 74% when removing the effluent water charges.
Furthermore the build up of bacteria that can breed in cooling towers such as legionella, is all but removed due to the closed circuit conditions that the adiabatic coolers use, significantly reducing the running costs and in many instances, providing substantial savings even once the investment cost is offset. The adiabatic coolers supplied by ICS are unique on the market and have been assessed and approved by the HSE.
Go Green
Improve your businesses ‘water footprint’
In addition to the cost saving solutions, managing waste water in this way can have a favourable impact on a company’s green credentials that can further encourage green policy and future cost savings.
For Further information please contact Vikki Reynolds at ICS Cool Energy Ltd. Vikki.reynolds@icstemp.com 023 8052 7300
