Water Management

Industrial customers are challenged to conserve and recycle water resources, conform to regulatory permitting requirements, and eliminate potential environmental impacts from facility effluent.

Clarification, Sludge Dewatering & Thickening

Removing precipitate, particulate, and other solids from a process or wastewater stream, as well as dewatering the resulting solids, often presents unique challenges. Industry uses a host of solid/liquid separation unit processes for this purpose, including:

Clarifiers, Thickeners, Ponds & Settling Basins
Dissolved Air Flotation Units (DAFs), Filters & Presses
Centrifuges & Gravity Belt Thickeners

Neo-Solutions has one of the industry’s broadest and most diverse lines of flocculants, coagulants, and dewatering aids. Such variety enables our skilled field sales engineers to rapidly find cost-effective solutions for our customers’ specific processing equipment and water stream requirements.

Scale, Corrosion, Defoaming & Solidification Solutions

Our Specialty Scale & Corrosion Control Products help to minimize maintenance and infrastructure loss.
Our Antifoam & Defoaming Products optimize process flows and eliminate environmental issues associated with foaming.
Our Superabsorbent Products (SAP) are used to “solidify” (by complexing free water) waste material for hauling & disposal.

Difficult-to-Remove Contaminants

Various metals and inorganic contaminants, often found in industrial water streams, present unique challenges to meeting effluent water regulatory requirements. These contaminants include:

Metals such as cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, silver, tin, vanadium, and zinc.
Semi-metals such as antimony and arsenic.
Non-metals such as phosphorous and selenium.

Neo-Solutions has developed proprietary product offerings for precipitation and chelation that deliver field proven performance in removing dissolved contaminants. Operations that have soluble metals reduction requirements could likely benefit from utilizing Neo-Solutions’ chemistries and its experienced technical specialists.

Neo-Solutions products are used to:

Improve settling & sand filter efficiencies
Enhance sand filtration
Reduce turbidity
Promote backwash capture& solids dewatering
Eliminate corrosion and scale in infrastructure, piping & equipment
Optimize sludge generation & characteristics for easy removal
Decrease backwash cycles

Our application strategies optimize the performance of our chemicals by delivering optimum drinking water quality and improving the efficiencies of water treatment plants and distribution systems. We deliver results using our experience and a complete line of specialty products including coagulants, flocculants, and corrosion and scale inhibitors.

Continually Evolving to Help Customers Meet Municipal Wastewater Challenges

Major operational challenges are the result of industrial expansion, flow rate increases from population growth, and regulatory requirements to lower the limits of constituents in final effluents.

Operational Challenges Require New Solutions

The products and services we offer for sludge-related applications include

Drier Sludge Cake
Lower Cost per Ton of Waste Solids Treated
Improved Mixed Liquor Suspended Solids (MLSS) Settling
Sludge & Waste-Activated Sludge (WAS) Thickening
Metals Contaminants Removal
Pre-Treatment
Filamentous Outbreaks
Bacteria Enhancement
Foam Control
Scale & Deposit Control
Reducing BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand)
Reducing COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand)
Reducing TDS (Total Dissolved Solids)
Reducing TSS (Total Suspended Solids)
Removing FOG (Fats, Oils & Grease)
Phosphorous Reduction
Hydrogen Sulfide (H₂S) Gas & Odor Prevention, Reduction, or Elimination
Odor Neutralizers to Hide Non-Harmful Odors

At Neo-Solutions, we collaborate with our customers to optimize their operations. We understand that product selection includes identifying the best performing product that works over the broadest range of dosages and sludge conditions.

Our line of biological control and enhancement products assists with reducing odor generation, as well as keeping bacteria healthy. We have proven products that target and eliminate hydrogen sulfide gas.

Additionally, we supply one of the industry’s largest and most diverse selection of flocculants and coagulants. This competitive advantage sets us apart in sludge settling and dewatering applications. Based on laboratory testing, our technical service engineers identify products providing optimum process stability while delivering excellent cake solids and filtrate quality.

Polymer Performance Impacts Equipment Solids/Liquids Separation Efficiency

Our polymer line is used to optimize the performance of a wide range of equipment including:

Anaerobic, Aerobic & ATAD Digestion Systems
Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Units
Plate & Frame Presses
Rotary Drum Thickeners
Rotary Fan Presses
Centrifuges
Screw Presses
Clarifiers
Screw Thickeners
Trickling Filters
Deep Cone Thickeners
Reaction Tanks
Settling Ponds & Lagoons
Polymer Make-Down Systems
External & In-Line Mixing Systems
Belt Presses, Gravity Belt Thickeners & Screen Bowls

Belt Cleaning Solutions

Filter media cleaners can have a significant impact on operational efficiency by providing these benefits:

Increased Throughput
Drier Filter Cake Solids
Increased Filter Media Life
Less Filter Blinding

Our belt cleaning products have been shown to deliver an exceedingly high return on investment (ROI). It is not uncommon to achieve 2-3% higher cake solids at minimal cost.

Water is a Precious Resource in Mineral Processing

A typical mineral processing operation may recycle more than 90% of its process water. Any unnecessary water losses to product, dust control, or final effluent will require usage of make-up water which can be scarce or expensive. When chemicals (e.g., collectors, frothers) are added in the beneficiation phase, they can further complicate water management challenges.

Neo-Solutions’ team of water management experts includes professionals with over 40 years of experience managing water in mining environments. We bring this experience, along with our proven portfolio of products to your site so you can meet the most difficult challenges.

Neo-Solutions is SKILLED IN BOTH THE ART AND SCIENCE™ of mining, including:

Industrial Minerals Sand Mining
Sand & Gravel
Proppant (Frac) Sand
Quarry Operations (Granite, Marble)
Soft Rock (Coal)
Acid Mine Drainage Remediation
Oxides, Carbonates & Silicates
Hard Rock (Iron Ore, Sulfide Ore)

Thickener, Clarifier & Remote Area Operations

Performance of thickener and clarifier operations is essential to providing clean process water. Our full line of coagulants and flocculants allows our customers to achieve their goals and offers these advantages:

Excellent water clarity for re-use or final discharge
Proper underflow density
Fast settling rates for high thickener and clarifier efficiency
Stable floc characteristics to resist breakdown & solids losses
Reduction or elimination of floc carryover

Our flocculant tablets and polymer gel blocks are used in remote areas, ponds, and lagoons, as well as in soil erosion and runoff situations. They require no equipment and are ready-to-use solutions.

Foaming Problems Negatively Impact Operations

Undesirable foaming may be the result of water contaminants leading to:

Poor Process Efficiency
Loss of Recovery
Difficulty with Flow Rates & Pumping
Spillage from Weirs, Launders & Clarifiers
Safety Issues

Using our application expertise and our proven line of antifoam and defoamer products enables our customers to control foam-related issues.

Dewatering Applications are Essential to Operations

Proper dewatering of solids is important to conserve water while achieving low transportation costs, good handling characteristics, and/or meeting necessary remediation requirements.

Neo-Solutions has developed a proprietary line of filter (dewatering) aids that lower operating costs and deliver target filter cake moistures.

Applications Benefiting From Dewatering Aids

Dewatering screens, including ones that reduce product moisture
Weeping to reduce product moisture & drying time
Plate & frame filter presses & pressure filters to reduce final cake moisture, improve tons per cycle, reduce cycle times & increase filter media life
Vacuum filters, such as vacuum belt, rotary disc, rotary drum, and pan filters to reduce moisture, improve productivity, reduce media blinding & increase filter cloth life
Belt filter presses for increased throughput, drier cake yield, improved cake handling, decreased belt blinding & reduced chemical usage
Equipment used to dewater tailings for “dry stacking” & tailings rheology management
Equipment-less alternatives to “dry stack,” sometimes called “mud stacking”

Solidification

Neo-Solutions’ stiffening (solidification) products can be used when the actual percentage of moisture is not critical, yet the tailings or product materials need to handle as though they are drier. These specialized Neo-Solutions products improve handling for transport or material placement.

Equipment Freeze Control Applications

During cold weather, our freeze control product line and custom feed equipment help to start equipment easily, keep switches working, belts running without slipping, and hauling equipment releasing their loads.

Feed Equipment Capability

Neo-Solutions works collaboratively with best-in-class suppliers of feed systems, controls, and automation equipment to optimize products' cost performance, including simple solution feed systems, emulsion feed systems, and dry flocculant feed systems. We work with your chosen equipment supplier, or with one of our partners to meet your requirements. Through our equipment network, we can also provide our customers with support for turbidity and density management strategies.

Delivering Solutions that Achieve the Best Results

Safety, MSHA, PPE, regulatory compliant workers, safe employees

Our employees are driven to solve our customers problems and help them deliver on their production and financial commitments. We leverage all our expertise in polymeric and other chemical sciences to solve customer problems for applications in a host of environments, including steel, chemical, food, and other water intensive industrial settings.

Our staff of experienced industry experts, chemical engineers, and chemists are knowledgeable about operational processes and equipment provide:

On-site service and technical support included with our product offerings
On-site full trial support, including prior to trial training as required
Collaboration with our customers to achieve the best results

Our innovative approaches to chemical treatment strategies have been successfully adapted by our customers, generating several "industry firsts".

Our team members' flocculation and coagulation expertise supports our customer requirements by:

Establishing control parameters for high turbidity in clarifiers
Selecting the proper chemicals for reduction of suspended solids
Enhancing the performance and optimization of your processes

Our team prides itself in always striving to exceed our customers' expectation. We welcome the opportunity to solve your most challenging issues and to servicing your needs.

Water management

INDUSTRIAL WATER MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS

Municipal Drinking Water Management

Municipal Wastewater Management