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Leading environmental management expert, Procon Environmental Technologies,
guarantees that its one-of-a-kind water filtration system can remove 99,9 % of hydro carbons to meet South African storm water discharge limits.
The MyCelx filtration system, designed by the Pretoria-based company, will enable companies in the mining, manufacturing, energy, refinery, oil and gas industries to remove hydrocarbons - ranging from BTEX to crude oil, sheen, chlorinated hydrocarbons, PCB’s and organically bound metals - from their waste waters quickly and effectively.
This process can be achieved when combining MyCelx with Ultraspin oily water separation solutions – another Procon product solution.
Procon environmental manager Jacques Steyn explains: “Ultraspin hydrocyclone technology is able to remove 95 per cent of 10-15 micron oil droplets from the water. The MyCelx is then installed after the Ultraspin process to filter out the remaining hydrocarbons. We are able to guarantee 99,9% removal of TPH and oil and grease from water, thereby ensuring that clients meet the national standard of less than 2,5 parts per million (ppm).”
As the only product boasting a Lloyds of London certificate for removal of type C oil emulsions, the MyCelx system can be used in various industry applications, ranging from diesel depots to oil terminals and fuel storage depots.
“Upon contact with MyCelx, oily pollutants in the air and water bond immediately and are permanently attached to the filter media. With the use of either MyCelx patented engineered oil/hydrocarbon removal filters or filtration process solutions, the air and water is free of any oil and hydrocarbons. MyCelx instantly removes 99,9% of hydrocarbon contaminants in a single pass, even at high flow rates,” Steyn explains. “What’s more, the system is environmentally-friendly, and never releases a hydrocarbon chain once in contact with MyCelx. It permanently binds slightly soluble organic compounds and colloidal metals, and will not release pollutants due to its visco-elastic nature.”
First introduced in 2004, MyCelx technology has recently been applied as a water filtration solution to the following major industrial operations:
-Samancor Chrome: Procon was contracted in August 2009 to install a MyCelx filtration solution to handle 59m3 and 64m3/h flow at the company’s Tubatse Ferrochrome smelting operation in Steelpoort. With the installation of the MyCelx filtration system, the life of the reverse-osmosis plant has been extended considerably. The solution provides a significant value to the plant - providing protection against damage to reverse-osmosis membranes used to desalinate the process water. The water treatment plant processes approximately 5 million litres of water a day, of which about 2,750 000 litres pass through the Mycelx system.
-Transnet Rail: The new Postmasburg site required an effluent treatment from the loco workshop, while meeting government standards of discharging water to the environment. Procon provided an Ultraspin OS35 (3,5m3/h) Oily water separator solution with MyCelx filtration to ensure discharge standards were met at below 2,5mg/l. Procon also installed a transfer pump from the motor workshop pit, in order to transfer the wash water effluent to the effluent separator pit, where the Ultraspin unit treated the water.
Steyn concludes that MyCelx has been the water filtration technology of choice across South Africa, Angola and Botswana due to the following advantages:
Speed: It has a small footprint and easy to install in a matter of minutes. Simplicity: No rotary or electrical parts make the system operator friendly and easy to maintain. Reliability: once filter captures and binds to the oils it will not release any oil. It is an economically viable way to polish effluent water to meet discharge standards.
Whether the requirement is prevention, containment, clean-up, process treatment or recovery, Procon has the leading products and applications to fulfil those needs. Procon also offers a project management capability that can take a scheme from inception through to conclusion and follow-up field service if required to complete the spectrum of its fully integrated treatment programmes, Steyn concludes.
Notes to the Editor
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About Procon Environmental Technologies
Today more than ever before it is the responsibility of companies and their employees to be aware of pollution and its environmental consequences. While the first principle of environmental management is that prevention is better than cure, accidents and spills do happen.
It is for this reason that Procon Environmental Technologies was established in 1993. We offer a full scope of Environmental Products & Technologies, specializing in systems that minimize the impact of contamination on the environment and surrounding areas. The company has secured exclusive partnerships with international companies that are world leaders in their field of expertise.
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