CMF removes contaminants from wastewater

GEM will showcase its Ceramic Microfiltration System (CMF) at the Maintec 2010 exhibition, which will take place at NEC, Birmingham from 2-4 March.

The CMF provides a return on investment in less than two years by reducing water usage, and reducing energy consumption by recovering the heat in wastewater.

It removes suspended and emulsified contaminants, producing a water quality that is often better than that of the raw water stock from which the effluent was produced.

Using effective cross-flow filtration technology, contaminated wastewater is fed through the CMF's ceramic filter channels at high velocity.

The ceramic filters are coated with fine membranes, which provide filtration to a variety of sub-micron pore sizes.

The cleaned filtrate is diverted to a storage system for recycling while rejected contaminants are collected in a small 'concentrate' waste stream.

The CMF's cost-effective, compact and pre-piped design is fully automated and user friendly, recovering up to 90 per cent of processed water.

The system is guaranteed to perform under high temperature and pH.

GEM will demonstrate a working filter module at the show and, by prior arrangement, customers can bring a small sample of their own effluent to test the effectiveness of the equipment.

In addition, GEM will also exhibit its acclaimed Flu-Ace technology, which improves the fuel efficiency of boiler operations, thereby providing a significant return on investment and reducing environmental emissions.

Flu-Ace converts an industrial boiler into a condensing boiler, effectively recovering up to 90 per cent of the heat normally lost.

This is possible because Flu-Ace's direct contact (gas/liquid) design enables optimal recovery of both sensible and latent heat, even in widely varying operating conditions.

Flu-Ace also effectively removes combustion emissions.

A single Flu-Ace can handle a varying flow of flue gases emitted from multiple boilers.

This results in a lower initial investment, cheaper operating costs and a higher return on investment.

A full payback is often achieved in less than two years and savings are maintained throughout the unit's 20-year-plus operating life.

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