Pollution Prevention and Control Technologies for Plating
Operations
Section 3 - Chemical Recovery
3.6 ELECTRODIALYSIS
3.6.4 Technology/Equipment Description
This subsection contains names of commercially available electrodialysis
equipment that is manufactured and/or sold by vendor survey respondents.
This is intended to provide the reader with information and data
on a cross section of available equipment. Mention of trade names
or commercial products is not intended to constitute endorsement
for use.
Graver Water, a division of The Graver Company, markets electrodialysis
units manufactured by Tokuyama Soda, a world leader in the membrane
technology. Their target industries are food, photograph finishing,
pulp processing, waste control and metal finishing. Their key
metal finishing applications include nickel and zinc recovery
from galvanizing and acid or alkali recovery.
Kinetic Recovery Corporation markets electrodialysis equipment
for various applications, including: Watts nickel, copper cyanide,
cadmium cyanide, and zinc phosphates. Their typical units have
membrane surface areas ranging from approximately 35 ft2 to 190
ft2, although all units are custom designed to meet individual
process needs. Their systems are skid mounted and include: membrane
stack, holding tank for concentrate, holding tank for diluate,
holding tank for electrode rinse, three sets of level controls,
three pumps for liquid transfer, plumbing, automated valves, flow
meter, pressure gauges, cartridge filters and control panel.
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