Case study · Industrial Manufacturing & Environmental · 2014
Mobile hazardous water vacuum skid at 150,000 L/day
Petro Sep designed, fabricated, and deployed a mobile AQUA-SEP® vacuum membrane distillation skid for hazardous water treatment in Rhode Island. Containerized, road-transportable, and validated on real feed before scale-up.
- Industry
- Industrial Manufacturing & Environmental
- Location
- Rhode Island, USA
- Year
- 2014
- Technology deployed
- VMD
Outcomes
The numbers that mattered.
Independently verified at commissioning, tracked in operation.
- Production capacity
- 150,000 L/day
- Mobile, containerized footprint.
- Feed type
- Hazardous water
- TDS and chemistry that disqualified evaporator alternatives on energy cost.
- Mobility
- Containerized
- Road-transportable, plug-in commissioning on site.
01
Why a mobile AQUA-SEP® for this site
The operator needed a hazardous-water solution that could be deployed at the site without a multi-year civil-works program. AQUA-SEP®, packaged inside an ISO container, sized at 150,000 L/day, dropped onto a prepared pad and ran. No site-specific structural steel. No on-site fabrication. The full train (membrane modules, vacuum train, heat-recovery loop, controls, instrumentation) shipped from our Toronto shop fully assembled and factory-tested.
02
Fabrication and deployment
Engineering and detailed design at Toronto, with feed characterization run in our Canadian Labs ahead of detailed design. Fabrication and factory acceptance testing in-house. Containerization (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation in one ISO unit) at the shop. Site delivery, hookup to feed and discharge, electrical tie-in, and SAT all completed in weeks rather than months.
03
Outcomes
150,000 L/day of hazardous water treatment delivered without permanent civil works at the host site. The mobile-skid model has since informed Petro Sep's approach to other rapid-deployment projects: package the full train, validate at the shop, ship containerized, commission in days.
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Photographs from fabrication, installation, and commissioning.
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