Solutions for high-salinity water
Osmosys designs and delivers membrane concentration systems for four markets, on one proprietary platform.
Minimum and zero liquid discharge
Osmosys membrane trains concentrate industrial and municipal brines to 280,000 mg/L before crystallization, reducing the evaporator and crystallizer to a small finishing step.
- Lower energy and capital than a thermal train
- 60–75%
- Water recovered across the membrane train
- 99%+
- Smaller plant footprint
- 70%
Brine mining and resource recovery
Desalination and industrial brines carry magnesium, potassium, bromine, lithium, and salts. Osmosys concentrates them to the strength at which selective recovery becomes economic.
- Concentration ahead of recovery
- 220–280kmg/L
- Water recovered alongside the product
- 99%+
- Specific energy, against 25–60 thermal
- 5–12kWh/m³
Lithium
Membrane concentration shortens solar evaporation from 18–24 months to 3–6, and brings dilute direct-extraction eluate to crystallization strength. It works with any DLE chemistry.
- Brine to product, against 18–24
- 3–6months
- Water recovered, against 5–20% in ponds
- 70–80%
- Lithium salt feed to crystallization
- 200g/L
Produced water
Every barrel of oil is produced with three to seven barrels of water, most of it trucked, piped, or injected for disposal. Osmosys concentrates the stream and returns clean water to the operation.
- Water produced per barrel of oil
- 3–7bbl
- Membrane concentration ceiling
- 280,000mg/L
- Specific energy, against 25–60 thermal
- 5–12kWh/m³
Industries
The same platform serves any stream too saline for conventional reverse osmosis.
Discuss a project
Share the flow rate, water analysis, and treatment objective. Our process engineering team will follow up.