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PLATING AND ANODIZING: WASTEWATER TECHNOLOGY
Solid Choices
BY NOELLE STAPINSKY
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hose in the metal finishing industry keep a focus on the
key growth opportunities such as automation, electric
vehicle development and the rise of 3D printing, but
environmental considerations have been and will
always be top-of-mind. Metal finishing is heavily regulated when
it comes to air pollution and effluent management and being in
business requires compliance. However, navigating wastewater
management solutions can be daunting as it is certainly not a
one-size fits all scenario.
That's where a company like Burlington-Ont.-based, Kontek
comes in. For over 40 years this Canadian manufacturer has
specialized in providing unique technology solutions to facilitate
effluent compliance, waste minimization, metals recovery,
closed-loop water recycling, and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) and
minimal liquid discharge (MLD).
For the metal finishing and many other industries, Kontek's
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specialty products include the ability to provide in-house design
and manufacturing with wastewater recovery and MLD or ZLD.
Most MLD or ZLD systems always include technologies to
recover water but that produces a concentrated waste stream.
The higher the wastewater recovery rate, the more concentrated
the residual liquid waste product becomes. At some point, a
waste volume minimization unit operation must take place on
the residual liquid waste product, to reduce a customers waste
volume being hauled for offsite treatment and disposal.
Traditionally, Kontek would use atmospheric evaporators to
boil and evaporate down the volume of the residual liquid waste
product, however, all of the water vapour would be discharged
to the atmosphere. In one case, the atmospheric evaporator was
fitted with a condensing coil to allow for condensation of the
water vapour to be turned in to a fairly good quality distillate.
However, these condensing coils required a high flow of externally

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