Concentrate your industrial wastewater and recover pure water at a low energy cost.
Your industrial wastewater is costing you a lot. You can recover 80% of it.
Industrial companies that generate pollutant-laden effluents face two increasing constraints: increasingly strict discharge regulations (PFAS, metals, COD) and ever-increasing treatment costs at wastewater treatment plants.
Conventional solutions — reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, vacuum evaporation-concentration — only partially meet the requirements, with complex pretreatments, high maintenance, and significant energy consumption: 60 to 160 kWh/m³.
AQUAHIVE is a game changer: by harnessing the waste heat available from 50°C, it concentrates your effluents to just 1 kWh/m³ — up to 160 times less.
Membrane separation applied to industrial water treatment
Like NEODRY, AQUAHIVE uses membranes that are permeable to water vapor but impermeable to liquids. The hot effluent (50 to 70 °C) is brought into contact with the hot side of the membrane: the water vapor passes through and condenses on the cold side into very high-purity distilled water. The effluent gradually concentrates as it passes through the module (not shown in the diagram).
Result: 80% of the incoming effluent is returned as pure distilled water (5–9 µS/cm), directly reusable in the process. The remaining 20% constitutes a highly concentrated, very low-volume slurry ready for final treatment
Beyond its very low energy consumption, AQUAHIVE has other key advantages
Without chemical or biological pre-treatment
The industrial effluent, even when heavily loaded, is heated and introduced directly into the AQUAHIVE. A simple macro particle filter is positioned upstream of the spray nozzles.
Compatible with all pollutants, even at high concentrations
Metals, minerals, organic compounds, and PFAS remain behind the membrane. Only water vapor passes through, allowing for the concentration of effluents while extracting contaminant-free water.
Robust design and simplified maintenance
Operating at atmospheric pressure, without pressurization or vacuum, enabled a simple and robust design. Furthermore, the polymer membrane is inexpensive and easy to clean, which helps to limit operating costs.
Applications & Sectors
Distillation & agri-food
Distilleries, breweries, dairies, fermentation industries. Hot effluents loaded with organic matter treated without pretreatment. Validated reference: Ryssen Alcools, Loon-Plage — produced water reinjected into the steam circuits.
Reference: Ryssen Alcohols (2024–2025)
Stationery & Glassware
Sites with high availability of low-temperature waste heat. Treatment of white water, dryer condensates, and wash water. Reduction of wastewater treatment plant volumes and improvement of water balance.
Recovers waste heat from the process
Chemistry & Pharmaceuticals
Effluents containing solvents, synthesis residues, heavy metals, and PFAS. Recovery of waste heat from reactors. Recovered water for cooling circuits, steam utilities, and cleaning.
Effective against PFAS, heavy metals, COD
Green & Electronic Hydrogen
Electrolyzers and electronic component manufacturing. On-site water loop closure: reduction of makeup pure water inputs and wastewater treatment plant discharges. Distillate at 5–9 µS/cm for use in PEM electrolysis.
Closed water loop, zero liquid discharge
How to get started?
1
Data Collection Form
Effluent characteristics: flow rate, temperature, pollutants
2
Preliminary study & analysis
Technical feasibility, sample analysis if necessary
3
Presentation of the solution
Selected configuration, detailed savings and ROI
4
Costing & Implementation
Site visit, complete sales proposal
AQUAHIVE Presentation
Complete presentation of the technology, performance, schematic diagrams and implementation data.
Articles and publications
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