Valmet will upgrade the evaporation plant at BillerudKorsnäs Gruvön’s pulp and paper mill in Sweden.

Valmet will supply an evaporation line to be installed at Sappi Southern Africa’s pulp mill in Ngodwana, South Africa.

The new Valmet equipment to be installed will be two tube evaporators, a falling-film reflux condenser and four liquor preheaters. 

In many industrial processes, wastewater is a major economic and environmental concern.

After commissioning of the evaporation plant, the existing ion-exchanger will be replaced and an ultrafiltration system for desalination of the gelatin solution will be installed.

After 200 hours of continuous operation at a Texas-based commercial disposal well, GE and memsys clearwater Pte. Ltd. assert that a vapor compressor-driven membrane distillation (MD) system is effective in treating produced water.

Based on its recent analysis of the wastewater treatment market for Canadian oil sands, Frost & Sullivan recognized Aquatech International Corp., Canonsburg, Pa., with the 2013 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation.

The Três Lagoas mill, reportedly the largest single-line pulp mill in the world, uses Metso’s equipment in its recovery line.