No matter if it’s drilling, turning, milling or sawing, industrial wastewater is created during the machining process – and it has to be disposed of at a high cost. H2O GmbH’s vacuum distillation system presents an efficient and cost-saving solution for this. With an annual industrial wastewater volume of 1.58 million gallons, for example, annual savings to the tune of Dollar 400,000 can be made by using VACUDEST instead of conventional waste disposal. That’s a lot of money freed up for other uses.
A number of machining processes incur considerable costs for the disposal of spent and generated cooling lubricant emulsions. On average, costs amount to around Dollar 300 per 1,000 gallon for disposing such oily waters. The spent emulsions contain a large variety of cooling lubricants. With VACUDEST, there is a massive reduction in the volume of wastewater that needs to be disposed of every year – a fifteen- to twenty-fold reduction, in fact. Disposal costs are reduced on the same scale. This simple but huge cost-saving potential has led many businesses to completely rethink their wastewater management.
It saves a small fortune. Wastewater treatment with a VACUDEST evaporator yields savings of over 300 dollar/1,000 gal when compared with costly conventional disposal.
These businesses now rely on in-house wastewater treatment and are no longer dependent on local waste management companies. VACUDEST meets local discharge thresholds and, in many cases, enables distillate to be recycled. The costs for purchasing additional fresh water are reduced. This leads to huge savings every year.
Wastewater from other machining steps can often also be treated together with the spent cooling lubricants from the machining processes. This may include degreasing water and rinse water, as well as floor washings. It can be worth looking beyond the obvious to identify such additional sources of wastewater. VACUDEST is the perfect solution for highly varied wastewater mixes.
Spent cooling lubricant emulsions from machining processes commonly contain emulsified and oily components. Our patented Clearcat technology provides a crucial advantage in this respect.
Clearcat technology guarantees the highest reduction in organic load.
Oils and volatile components are reliably separated in the system once condensed. The oily residual contaminants caused by co-distillation remain in the evaporation residue.
The COD (chemical oxygen demand) caused by mineral oils, a measure for the biological load of water, is reduced by up to 98%. This corresponds to a 60% improvement compared to single-stage distillation. In addition, the hydrocarbon index (oil index), which is caused by non-polar hydrocarbons, is consistently reduced to < 38 mg/gallon and thus meets official thresholds. No processing is required with downstream technology.
You want to be part of our team and create the wastewater-free future with us?
We will tell you how!
Your contact is:
Bettina Böhringer
Human Resources
+49 7627 9239-201
career@h2o-de.com
You have questions on our VACUDEST systems?
Kindly contact us!
Your contact is:
Thomas Dotterweich
Senior Sales Engineer
+49 7627 9239-306
thomasm.dotterweich@h2o-de.com
You need consumables, spare parts or a maintenance date?
We will be pleased to assist you!
Your contact is:
Carles Fité
Technical Customer Support
+49 7627 9239-888
carles.fite@h2o-de.com