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The Spruce Filter

May 4th, 2010

Applications and Benefits

  • Waste water secondary and tertiary treatment: reduces turbidity, suspended solids, BOD and COD
  • Drinking water: Reduces turbidity, suspended solids, iron and manganese
  • Pre-treatment, ideal for UV, Reverse osmosis, desalination and GAC: Improve performance and increase life
  • Food and Beverage Production: Improve taste and appearance
  • Boilers: Turbidity reduction, minimise sludge blowdown
  • Industrial Water Process: Reduced particulate matter and turbidity
  • Deioniser and softener pre-treatment: Lengthen resin life

Implications :

  • Reduce Costs (Capital, civil, running, maintenance and discharge)
  • Ensure discharge compliance ( new and existing sites)

Summary of Key Benefits

  • World leading, patented technology
  • Small Footprint, versatile and scalable packaged solutions to fit customer’s needs
  • Cost effective on both operational and whole of life (30-80% cheaper than competition to own and run)
  • Natural, long lasting media (15 year minimum)
  • Non chemical system
  • Faster flow rates (60m3/hr)
  • High performance (filters to 0.2 microns)
  • Low volume backwash (0.1 to 1%)
  • Packaged solutions to fit customer’s needs
  • Easy to install and maintain (Little or no training required)
  • Possibility of retrofitting to reduce capital costs.

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Water Lines

  • An average European uses between 150 and 400 litres of water every day for their personal requirements.
  • Consunption in the US is almost twice as high, at 580 litres/day per person.
  • In China, the figure is only 90 litres per day on average.
  • In many developing countries individual consumption is well below the limit of 50 litres per day specified as the critical threshold by the Food and Agriculture Organization.