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Conventional Evaporation

Conventional evaporation effeciently and economically evaporates the water portion of process wastewater and completely eliminates your sewer discharge and accountability concerns.   

 

 

Benefits 
  • Reduce waste hauling costs (less material to haul)
  • Low capital investment
  • Low operating costs
  • Processes multiple waste streams simultaneously
  • Simple to install, operate (pennies per gallon) and maintain
  • Keeps wastewater disposal in-house

How it Works

Conventional evaporation reduces the volume of process wastewater from 90 to 95 percent, prior to being hauled away to a disposal facility.  Here's the process:

  1. The wastewater is placed in reservoirs with capacities of 50 to 200 gallons and heated to 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
     
  2. Heating boils the water off, reducing it to a "sludge" for disposal.  

Read more about the conventional evaporation process.

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