Project Highlights

Project at a glance Customer Direct air capture developer, USA Application Direct Air Capture (DAC) — solvent clarification Scope Six CONTIBAC® filters Process challenge Continuous removal of precipitated salts, degradation products and fine particulate from amine-based DAC solvent loops to protect solvent stability and system performance How does solid-liquid separation support solvent stability in direct […]

Project at a glance Customer Oil and gas operator, South East Asia Application Rich MEG treatment (offshore hydrate control / flow assurance) Scope Two FUNDABAC® candle filters (custom-engineered process package) Process challenge Removing precipitated salts, corrosion byproducts, sand, sludge and fine particulates from the returning rich MEG stream before regeneration, handling a variable solids load […]

Project at a glance Customer Municipal wastewater treatment plant Rancate (50,000 PE), Ticino, Switzerland — CMMF research project with Dolder AG, CSD Ingenieure, SUPSI and CDAM Application Quaternary municipal wastewater treatment — combined micropollutant and microplastic removal from secondary clarifier effluent Scope CONTIBAC® RX pilot unit with 1 m² filter cloth area, powdered activated carbon […]

Project at a glance Customer Industrial / chemical client, China (delivered by DrM Shanghai) Application Activated carbon filtration for wastewater treatment — methanol and heavy-metal removal Scope Four FUNDABAC® candle filter systems (with powdered activated carbon) Process challenge Removing methanol, heavy metals, colloidal particles and other undesired substances from a wastewater stream using a powdered […]

Project at a glance Customer Stena Line — pilot filtration on board Stena Vinga (September to October 2019) and Stena Scandinavica (December 2019 to March 2020) Application Maritime exhaust-gas scrubbing — cleaning of the recirculated scrubber wash water in closed-loop and hybrid SOx scrubber systems (IMO 2020) Scope FUNDABAC® pilot filter system, single-stage direct filtration, […]

DrM was asked by a major European PVC producer to help develop a treatment of VCM waste water stream in PVC production. Biodegradability Difficulty of PVC With a production capacity of 56 Mio. tpa, Vinyl Chloride (VCM) is one of the 20 largest petrochemical compounds in the world and is mainly used to produce PVC. […]

How will CONTIBAC® process and guard filters support lithium hydroxide production at Kwinana? Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DrM, Dr Mueller AG has signed a contract for the supply of specialised filtration equipment for Tianqi Lithium Australia’s newest lithium hydroxide processing plant, which will be located in Kwinana, Western Australia. Tianqi Lithium, which controls a majority stake […]