Pulp & Paper Processing

WaterSolve LLC provides engineering and consulting services for your pulp and paper process dewatering challenges.

INFLUENT TREATMENT

Your influent water has contaminant limitations, and operational demands. You want to treat the water but your process has regulatory limitations on what you can add. WaterSolve, LLC understands. We will design a program to remove the contaminants you desire at a cost that provides the best overall use cost, while adhering to your regulatory requirements.

FDA Approved products
DEQ Approved products
Exact dosing control equipment to maximize operational reliability, efficiency, and reduce operational costs
Reduced Demand for pH Adjustment chemicals
Simplified plant operation
Superior cold water performance
Reduced or eliminated trim equipment nozzle pluggage

SLUDGE DEWATERING

Efficient removal of water in the liquid solids separation is key to overall use cost analysis. WaterSolve is keenly aware of the value and cost of producing solids to be removed from your site. WaterSolve dewatering polymers are used in a variety of equipment.

FILTRATION

WaterSolve filter aids added just prior to filtration, maximize solids capture, minimize fines carryover, and quickly produce a floc that is more filterable; Yet, still prevents head loss by offering good media penetration of the solids. By preventing premature solids breakthrough, the polymers allow filter runs to be extended, optimizing efficiency and cost of operation. Another benefit is reduced filter recovery time following backwash.

SEDIMENTATION

WaterSolve flocculant-grade polymers are specifically formulated and designed to promote solids capture, increase floc formation rates, and to produce a denser, faster settling floc.

ORGANIC & INORGANIC COAGULATION

Our Organic Coagulant polymers are specifically formulated and designed to promote rapid removal of the wide range of suspended solids typically found in raw waters, including: Colloidal particles, color bodies, microorganisms, and other dispersed material which can adversely impact finished water quality. These highly cationic, relatively low molecular weight polymers offer superior charge neutralization.

Our Inorganic Coagulants are formulated to optimize in Solids and Color Removal. WaterSolve will work to identify the best product to provide removal of contaminants at lower metal dosage rates, without the substantial pH adjustment needed with traditional coagulants, and with less sludge generation. This in turn should provide the overall lowest use cost.

Our products will also help to insure that your plant meets the D/DBP Rules for enhanced coagulation.

Pulp and Paper Process Water Treatment Equipment & Products

BELT FILTER PRESS

WaterSolve polymers play a critical role in optimizing performance of filter belt presses. They produce the type of floc needed to maximize water release in the gravity section and prevent sludge extrusion in the compression zone. They also reduce the risk of filter blinding.

GEOTEXTILE TUBES

High strength permeable geotextiles with uniquely designed retention properties are fabricated into Geotextile containers that can be filled with fine grain sludge, hazardous contaminated soils, or dredged waste materials.

DRYING BEDS

WaterSolve polymers are formulated to accelerate free water release, speeding drainage and evaporation which significantly reduces drying time. They can dramatically increase surface loading rates and reduce the surface area required to dewater a given volume of sludge.

GRAVITY BELT THICKENERS

WaterSolve high performance polymers promote formation of larger, heavier floc which settles faster and produces a denser sludge…and to maximize fines capture, producing a higher clarity supernatant that minimizes risk of recycles fines buildup.

FILTRATION AIDS

Municipal sewage treatment plants that employ filtration prior to final discharge have found WaterSolve polymers a cost effective means for enhancing filter performance. We offer a wide variety of coagulant-grade and flocculant-grade polymers for this application, as well as a complete selection of inorganic coagulant/polymer blends.

SIEVE DRUM CONCENTRATORS

WaterSolve Polymers offer excellent floc qualities that allow for a tough floc required to handle the movement of the solids through the drum, while retaining the solids for optimum solids capture.

DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION UNITS

In dissolved air flotation units, WaterSolve polymers and Inorganic Coagulants effectively flocculate biological solids from secondary clarifiers to produce masses to which rising bubbles can adhere. The surfactant properties of these polymers also serve to promote strong attachment of the air bubbles to the floc, promoting it’s efficient flotation and removal.

PHOSPHORUS INACTIVATION

WaterSolve Inorganic Coagulants inactivate phosphorous by precipitating it as a metal phosphate. Ferric sulfate, in addition to inactivating phosphorus, controls sewage odors by precipitating soluble sulfide as iron sulfide. Aluminum coagulants stoichiometrically inactivate the highest rates of phosphorus, and produces a precipitate that does not re-dissolve under anoxic conditions.

ODOR CONTROL

WaterSolve odor control products are a low cost, non sensitizing, non toxic, material with no VOC’s.  These products can be used in a variety of applications such as Geotextile dewatering, eliminating sludge odors in wastewater treatment.  It can be sprayed directly into stacks and rooms, atomized into the atmosphere as a barrier, and drip fed into sewage streams, used at any malodorous site, added to cleaning water, or added to inks or adhesives.

CENTRIFUGES

These polymers are designed for rapid floc formation needed to accommodate a relatively brief conditioning time. They also produce the tough floc required to withstand the high gravitational forces encountered. These polymers can increase recovery efficiencies and throughput and accommodate wider variations in sludge treatability.

VACUUM FILTERS

Our polymers are uniquely formulated and produced to provide the broadest product line to choose from.  These dewatering aids are designed to promote rapid formation of dense, strong, shear-resistant floc that readily releases water.  Depending on your particular operating conditions and operational goals, we can provide:

  • Optimal Cake Dryness
  • Optimized Solids Capture and Recovery
  • Optimized Production Throughout
  • Reduced Sludge Treatment Costs
  • Assure Process Reliability
  • Enhanced System Performance
  • Reduced Chemical Treatment Costs

API SEPARATORS

WaterSolve offers a broad product line to handle typical applications or oily sludges, tank bottoms, reactor bottoms and stormwater retention aids.

CLARIFICATION AIDS

WaterSolve polymer and inorganic coagulants offer superior performance characteristics that have proven especially beneficial to municipal sewage treatment plants employing enhanced primary clarification. In these applications, WaterSolve will test and formulate to accomplish the following:

  • Maximize removal of total suspended solids (TSS) and associated biological oxygen demand (BOD) in primary clarifiers
  • Enhance removal of color, turbidity, heavy metals, biological matter, and other primary pollutants
  • Allow increased throughput in primary clarifiers
  • Minimize solids loading on downstream systems, reducing costs, optimizing performance, and allowing increased throughput in biological treatment systems and secondary clarifiers

Your WaterSolve technical specialist can also develop and apply polymers designed to enhance performance of secondary clarifiers. These clarification aids have proven extremely effective in maximizing removal of the finely-dispersed, gelatinous biological solids generated in aeration systems. This has made them especially effective in responding to upset conditions to maintain secondary clarifier effluent quality and minimize problems in both upstream and downstream systems.

Comprehensive Pulp & Paper Processing Water Treatment Services

SALES

Our expert pulp and paper processing team understands what it takes to complete a project from start to finish. Let us guide you in the research, production and application process to layout the best solution.

DESIGN

Site design and project layout are a critical element in your pulp and paper processing water treatment project. We have the knowledge and operational experience to provide Geotextile tube dewatering technology solutions for every project. Quality, safety and cost considerations are determined to custom-formulate solutions for your environmental needs.

INSTALLATION

Our capable and experienced team fully coordinates equipment and installation for your pulp and paper process dewatering project to handle the management of sediment removal, containment and remediation safely and effectively. WaterSolve strives to provide a well-managed project with support you can count on throughout the whole process.

PERMIT APPLICATION ASSISTANCE & SUBMISSION

The documentation and approval process is an element that our team handles for you. With our fully managed, turnkey process, your pulp and paper process water treatment and dewatering project will move along smoothly with the necessary items handled by your dedicated project manager.

SAVE THOUSANDS IN DISPOSAL COSTS

WaterSolve’s years of experience brings along efficacy, ingenuity, and benefits in product engineering using Geotextile tube units. These Geotextile tube dewatering containers can be sized for large-scale or smaller applications and effectively contain even hazardous materials, reducing their volume dramatically and saving thousands in disposal costs.

RESPONSIBLE HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIAL HANDLING

WaterSolve uses strict & responsible standards in handling hazardous waste and contaminated sediments. In many cases, these sediments pose significant environmental hazards, where remediation is a difficult and expensive task. WaterSolve understands these associated risks and has the knowledge to properly and responsibly handle the containment and remediation for your pulp and paper process water treatment and dewatering project.

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Our pulp and paper process dewatering and wastewater treatment solutions provide powerful improvements to project operations costs and performance for every client.