New membrane water treatment system to reduce toxic waste and waste disposal cost by over 90 per cent

A new pilot plant to treat industrial wastewater is being built that could potentially reduce the amount of liquid waste by over 90 per cent.

In addition, the new plant, built jointly by the Separatio Technologies Applied Research and Translation (START) Centre and Memsift Innovations Pte Ltd., can also recover precious metals from the treated water which can then be sold and reused.

The pilot plant uses a novel water treatment system that leverages a new type of hollow-fibre membrane invented by Professor Neal Chung at the National University of Singapore, which has been licensed and scaled up for industrial application by the START Centre.