Resource recovery opportunties within Industrial waste water

Business Segment Drivers

Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) is the ultimate wastewater management & water recovery regime – achieving almost 100% water recovery and eliminating any liquid waste leaving an industrial plant. In industries where water consumption and wastewater discharge are restricted due to dwindling freshwater resources and strains on downstream aquatic environments, water & resource recovery from wastewater streams enables industries to increase their production capacity while – at the same time – reducing their ecological impact. India is at the forefront of imposing and enforcing ZLD regulations and India’s textile & tannery industries are driving the country’s ZLD adoption.

Commercial drivers for ZLD technologies include:

  • Ensuring compliance with government discharge regulations to avoid fines and/or shut downs.
  • Improving resource recovery from wastewater streams as a means of increasing production capacity.
  • Decreasing the overall costs of ZLD given that traditional means of ZLD, such as evaporators, are exceedingly energy-intensive.

 

SideStroem’s value proposition

Forward osmosis is one of a handful membrane-based low-energy ZLD alternatives capable of significantly reducing ZLD costs. Additionally, SideStroem’s forward osmosis technology will enable simultaneous recovery of both water & valuable solute side streams from wastewater with the following value for industrial end users:

  1. Decreased OPEX costs of wastewater treatment leading to lower payback time of wastewater treatment systems using SideStroem’s forward osmosis technology.
  2. Superior resource recovery ensures compliance with discharge regulations while enabling increased production capacity.

Market size

We estimate a total addressable market size of $ USD 3.5Bn for SideStroem’s forward osmosis technology applied to high TDS (sodium chloride) wastewater from textile industries regardless of current treatment methods. Adding to the total addressable market size comes the market potential for SideStroem’s forward osmosis technology within tannery industries and other industrial wastewater treatment applications.

 

Industry examples

Textile

Wastewater treatment in textile dyeing processes

Geographies in focus

SideStroem Water Technologies will focus on India’s textile industry, which contributed 13% of the country’s industry production in 2020, 2.3% to the GDP, and employed more than 45 million people in 2020. In addition, the sector contributed 12% to India’s export earnings in 2020.

Industry needs

  • Meeting Government discharge regulations to avoid enforcement in terms of fines and/or shut downs.
  • Increasing production capacity through resource recovery from wastewater streams.
  • Decreasing the overall costs of ZLD given that traditional means of ZLD, such as evaporators, are exceedingly energy-intensive.

Solution

SideStroem’s forward osmosis technology enables simultaneous recovery of both water & valuable solute side streams from wastewater streams in textile dyeing processes.

Products

SideStroem Water Technlogies will commercialize forward osmosis spiral wound elements in 4 inch and 8 inch configurations.

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Tannery

Geographies in focus

SideStroem Water Technologies will focus on India’s leather industry, which accounts for around 12.9% of the world’s leather production of hides/skins and supports and annual production of about 3 billion square feet of leather.

Industry needs

  • Meeting Government discharge regulations to avoid enforcement in terms of fines and/or shut downs.
  • Increasing production capacity through resource recovery from wastewater streams.
  • Decreasing the operating costs of ZLD systems – given that traditional evaporators are exceedingly energy-intensive.

Solution

SideStroem’s forward osmosis technology enables simultaneous recovery of both water & valuable solute side streams from wastewater streams in leather tanning processes.

Products

SideStroem Water Technlogies will commercialize forward osmosis spiral wound elements in 4 inch and 8 inch configurations.

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