Software integrates three water-treatment technologies
Water and wastewater treatment typically involves the use of many treatment technologies to achieve the desired water quality. Optimizing the treatment train can be challenging. The Dow WAVE (Water Application Value Engine) design software integrates three technologies — ultrafiltration (UF), reverse osmosis (RO) and ion exchange (IX) — into one comprehensive tool using a common interface. It is said to simplify the multi-technology design process and ultimately help to reduce the time it takes to design site-specific water-treatment systems. WAVE upgrades the best feature’s of the company’s older, single-technology design software (ROSA, UFLOW, IXCALC and CADIX), while bringing all of these technologies together under one common user-friendly and time-saving interface, and can estimate the performace of UF, RO and IX technologies in water-treatment systems, either individually or in various combinations. The benefits of integrating these three technologies include improved algorithms, true mass balance volumes and flows that reflect changes in density due to temperature, water composition and water compressibility, consistent hydraulic constraints and regeneration parameters, harmonized data management, improved case management and more. — Dow Water & Process Solutions, Edina, Minn.