Working in Biotech, especially R&D, often requires a variety of chemicals to be synthesised. Eventually these need to be disposed of and sometimes this creates issues. Nyex™ water treatment systems from Arvia Technology can remove many recalcitrant compounds down to below measurable levels.
Avia produce a range of water polishing systems designed to remove the most recalcitrant of chemicals and compounds from wastewater. These are the compounds that challenge other ’legacy’ treatment systems.
Arvia’s innovative Nyex™ wastewater treatment systems are capable of removing many organics, including APIs, antibiotics, steroids, hormones, endocrine disruptors and recently banned organic chemicals still in use in legacy manufacturing. All these types of recalcitrant pollutants can be removed to below trace levels.
Arvia’s innovative water treatment systems remove many persistent chemicals that other more complex legacy systems struggle with. Our tertiary systems are an essential polishing step in a facility’s water treatment plant and are essential when planning for a ZLD (zero liquid discharge) strategy in the future.
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Some blowdown water treatments leave behind too many recalcitrant compounds; also, sometimes a blowdown does not reduce COD to optimum levels for immediate reuse. Either way, Arvia’s next-generation treatment systems offer a cost-effective and viable solution, complementing and adding to your existing water treatment kit.
Arvia’s systems are the best and most effective tertiary water polishing systems available and have been installed in countless different locations worldwide.
Wastewater with high biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand and suspended solid levels normally requires industrial water equipment such as screening, filtering, clarifying, a biological bed and sometimes coagulation and flocculation.
Nyex™ is often the best water technology to sit downstream from these processes to manage the remaining hard-to-treat organic contaminants.
However, it can also be deployed as a very effective pre-treatment side chain to support treatments such as a biological bed or reverse osmosis system. Nyex™ removes the chemical pollutants which could damage these processes or make maintenance more labour intensive, should pollutants enter these systems.
All Nyex™ treatment systems have no moving parts and require minimal maintenance compared to existing systems. This signposts a long working life with low OpEx.
Recalcitrant organics can be removed to very low levels (often parts per billion) enabling discharge of wastewater within permitted levels to sewers or the environment.
Arvia’s Rosalox™ treatment system features a unique combination of adsorption and electrochemical oxidation ensuring targeted treatment of APIs, antibiotics, steroids, hormones and endocrine disruptors.
Nyex™ systems do away with the need for expensive and environmentally harmful incineration of wastewater or toxic compounds. Incineration is incredibly carbon-intensive and of questionable environmental efficacy.
Nyex Rosalox™ water treatments have a unique adsorptive media which regenerates in situ meaning no toxic sludge is produced.
Nyex™ systems require no chemical dosing, meaning safer factory conditions for operatives and no COSHH regulations to concern plant managers.
As a result of no waste and no sludge, downtime to replenish adsorptive media is a thing of the past. So unlike some activated carbon systems, Nyex™ can continue to work 24/7.
Treatment units can be placed in containers or mounted on skids for easy factory or lab positioning. Our treatment reactors are modular and have a small footprint so additional units can be hooked up quickly to add capacity.
Powering up a Nyex™ system is as simple as flicking a switch. There are no complex run-up routines to worry about, making them ideal for batch processing in smaller facilities or labs.
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What is important to you is also important to Arvia.
We can support your company’s validation or verification requirements. We also understand your need for low-risk solutions, so when you work with Arvia you get the option of a three-step delivery:
We’ll test your water against a range of our high performance products to determine the treatment efficiency under different conditions. We then provide insights and data to support the optioneering process.
We often bring in a pilot plant to assess and develop the treatment process under real world conditions, and over longer periods to capture variable conditions in your particular set-up.
Data driven full scale design increases certainty around the areas of cost and performance early in the project, reducing risk.
On-site installation, commissioning, and support from Arvia’s team ensures the best return on your investment.
Our solutions for The Biotech Industry and R&D in Biotech have been developed specifically to meet some of the needs of the sector. Some are detailed below:
Nyex™ technology from Arvia will remove many Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) such as: antibiotics, steroids, hormones and EDCs to below detectable levels. Plus the technology doesn’t require any chemical dosing so no toxic chemicals are required meaning no complex COSHH requirements. In addition, no waste or sludge is produced making it a highly eco-friendly solution.
Arvia can help by reviewing performance of different technologies in our lab prior to any system design. This allows us to discover how they interact with your samples to result in cleaner water. We also offer pilots, which means we can discover how our technology works at your site in a ‘real world’ setting.
Resorting to incineration as a waste management strategy is often a sign that your water treatment plant is not working the way it should. For wastewater having a low calorific value and containing hazardous contaminants or pollutants, incineration is an unnecessarily costly and carbon intensive process, which will also do nothing for your company’s carbon footprint.
Arvia can provide multiple solutions to remove hazardous contaminants from wastewater streams at a fraction of the cost of incineration, draining to sewer or environment whilst remaining within discharge limits.
These systems often require a batch process allowing compliance monitoring before discharge – which Arvia systems are easily capable of. This enables significant savings in operational and administrative costs compared to incineration.
