At a manufacturing facility outside the Spanish town of Lorquí, a 16 m high evaporator has steadily been constructed over the last 12 months.
Now complete, the unit, which is the largest evaporation unit ever constructed by HRS Heat Exchangers, will soon be dismantled for transport and installation at its operating site.
The combined evaporator and crystalliser, which will have a total capacity of nine tonnes per hour once operational, has a footprint of 135 m2 and is designed to treat concentrated waste brine produced by an on-site reverse osmosis plant resulting in the production of distillate – which is returned as process water – and crystallised waste.
This evaporator unit will form part of an upgraded zero liquid discharge (ZLD) system for treating the client’s challenging waste stream and meeting local environmental regulations.
New system
The new system has a total weight of 54 tonnes and covers a total area (across all four operating levels) of 420 m2. In total it includes 19 tanks, 15 heat exchangers of different sizes and about 100 different lines of piping of various diameters.
The system includes a...
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