FOULING-IMMUNE MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY FOR

SOLUTION #1

Meet Your Wastewater Discharge Limits

Replace or Augment Infrastructure for Wastewater Treatment & Reduce OPEX

ZwitterCo superfiltration (SF) membranes can replace DAF entirely or improve operations by converting your DAF to air only, which would lower overall costs of ownership by eliminating the need for DAF polymer and coagulants and reducing cleaning frequency.

Greenfield expansion capacity with compact footprint
Eliminate DAF polymer and coagulants
Reduce cleaning frequency
Valorize concentrate for pet food, fertilizers, etc.

Reduce Maintenance Downtime & Plant Upsets

ZwitterCo membranes support automated operations, reducing the need for human intervention and minimizing frustrations that come with other wastewater systems such as air flotation, lagoons, etc.

ZwitterCo SF membranes are immune to irreversible fouling, reducing the frequency and duration of downtime associated with traditional system maintenance and plant upsets.

Immune to irreversible fouling
Reduce downtime
Increased automated operations

ZwitterCo membranes versus DAF

Improve Wastewater Quality & Meet Discharge Limits

Achieve > 99% removal of fats, oils, and grease (FOG) and TSS with ZwitterCo SF, resulting in cleaner effluent and higher quality reclaimed water, surpassing the inconsistent performance of DAFs. This also allows for consistent compliance with discharge limits.

Increase Operational Reliability

By decreasing the dependency on manual in-line chemical dosing processes, ZwitterCo membranes lead to fewer operational disruptions, resulting in smoother and more efficient plant operations. 

ZwitterCo membranes are extremely resilient to sudden changes in feed quality, ensuring stable performance and fewer plant upsets. They also do not require any operator involvement in making the necessary changes. 

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SOLUTION #2

Reuse Water & Intervention Chemicals

From left to right: Raw feed water from poultry processing plant, ZwitterCo superfiltration permeate (97%), concentrate (3%), and RO polish water.

Enable Water Reuse in Upstream Processes

ZwitterCo SF membranes can remove greater than 99% of the oil, grease, and TSS within that water stream, which minimizes nozzle clogging and decreases TOC and BOD up to 90%.

Ideal Pretreatment for RO

ZwitterCo SF membranes provide the best pretreatment for further refining to RO quality by reducing constituents that cause poor membrane performance.

Lower the Cost of Intervention Chemistries

ZwitterCo’s fouling-immune SF membrane technology enables over 95% recovery of process water streams such as screen wash water and other washdown areas for reuse. You can achieve all this while removing color, FOG, TSS, BOD, TOC, and TKN.

SF also allows chemicals such as PAA to pass while capturing FOG. This allows over 90% of intervention chemistries, such as PAA, to be reused.

Recent third-party lab testing of ZwitterCo membranes versus DAF.

ZwitterCo Reuse Water Applications

Screen Wash Water
IOBW
Carcass Washes

Vacuum Pumps
Irrigation
Dip Tanks

ZwitterCo provides a significant reduction in the amount of wastewater produced by your facility.

Reduce Volume of Wastewater Treated

Wastewater from process streams contributes to the load on total plant wastewater. With ZwitterCo membranes, you’re able to reduce the volume of wastewater that needs to be treated.

ZwitterCo membranes allow for water reuse and recycling in places that may not have been able to be reused before, which leads to less wastewater going to total plant WW treatment.

SOLUTION #3

Functional Protein Concentration

Concentrate after ZwitterCo membrane filtration.

Eliminate The Need for Chemicals

Many plants use polyacrylamides, aluminum and iron-based chemicals in their DAFs, which can poison aquafers. Our filtration provides concentrate similar to DAF skimmings but without the chemicals.

With ZwitterCo, No Need For:

Polyacrylamides
Aluminum
Iron-Based Chemicals

Land Application & Composting Without DAF Chemistries

The reduction in chemicals using ZwitterCo membranes means that plants can use treated water without worrying about increasingly strict regulations.

In many places around the United States, new strict rules have made land application difficult or impossible. With ZwitterCo, land application and composting are possible – even as regulations change. This opens the door to valorization opportunities as well.

Safe Rendering Material

With ZwitterCo membranes, plants can capture all the oils, grease, and proteins, boosting yields and production at the rendering plant. ZwitterCo membranes also provide safer byproducts for animal food, without polyacrylamide – a chemical harmful to humans and animals.

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Concentrating Protein?Cut CIP Costs in Half.

ZwitterCo is now implementing our fouling-immune technology and designing sanitary products specific for food, dairy, and beverage processes that enable a daily 1-step clean plus sanitization.

A simple drop-in replacement will cut cleaning costs by >50% by reducing chemicals, make-up water, wastewater, and energy. Additionally, chlorine is not required to restore membrane performance.

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Speak with our engineers to discover ways that ZwitterCo can support positive changes at your plant. With our help, you can reduce your hauling and avoid heavy OPEX spend on plant expansion.

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Industrial Wastewater Reuse

ZwitterCo has only polymeric membranes that can filter high strength organic streams without rapid and irreversible fouling. More description here to describe the kind of solutions we offer for NMP.

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Challenging Surface Water Treatment

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High Value Protein & Co-Product Separation

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Remove Bulk Organics

Remove tough to fight organics, such as fats, oils, grease, and protein.

Fully Chlorine-Intolerant

Can endure aggressive cleaning without wear and tear

Runs at Low Pressure

Runs at low pressure by not removing salt, sugar, alcohol’s or other small molecules.

Replaces Biological Systems

Replace biological systems or coagulation/flocculation processes commonly used to treat organics.