Solution · Water & Wastewater
Water & Wastewater Treatment
When a feed is too saline, too fouling, or too complex for reverse osmosis, Petro Sep recovers the water anyway. Our vacuum membrane distillation platform treats produced water, frac flowback, landfill leachate, high-salinity industrial effluent, and RO reject, recovering clean water and concentrating the reject toward zero liquid discharge. Skid-mounted, code-stamped, and engineered to retrofit into existing plants.
Readiness: Proven, deployed
What you get
Outcomes on this vertical.
- Water recovery, RO + AQUA-SEP®
- Up to ~95%
- RO recovers about 40% on its own; routing its reject through AQUA-SEP® can lift overall recovery up to about 95%. In lab tests on frackwater, AQUA-SEP® alone recovered 80 to 90%.
- TDS handled
- Up to 25%
- Far beyond the 6 to 8% practical limit of reverse osmosis.
- Recovered-water purity
- <10 ppm TDS
- Distillate clean enough for direct reuse or compliant discharge.
Built for the streams RO rejects
Reverse osmosis stalls on high salinity, silica, and organics. Vacuum membrane distillation and membrane distillation are thermally driven, so they keep recovering water where RO cannot: up to roughly 25 percent TDS, through fouling loads, at 60 to 85 degrees Celsius rather than a full boil. The result is high water recovery, a distillate below 10 ppm TDS, and a concentrated reject that shrinks disposal volume and sets up zero liquid discharge. We build the system as a skid or packaged plant that retrofits into the existing treatment train.
Featured project
Proof in the field.
Technologies
The right process.
Industries
Where this matters.
Oil, Gas & Energy
Process equipment, packaged plants, and membrane separation for upstream, midstream, downstream, and energy.
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Mining
Process plants and membrane separation for tailings, brines, lithium, and ZLD.
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Industrial Manufacturing & Environmental
Process equipment, packaged plants, and membrane recovery for manufacturing, water reuse, and emissions control.
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Frequently asked
Common questions.
How is this different from reverse osmosis?
Can it reach zero liquid discharge?
Interested in Water & Wastewater Treatment?
Let us scope it.
License the solution or deploy it as a turnkey plant. Either way, send the stream or the spec and we will tell you, honestly, what is proven and what is still in development.