SAF™ Applications: Partial List

Food, Dairy, and Animal Products Processing

• Bakeries and noodle manufacturing plants 
• Seafood processing plants (fish, shellfish, squid)
• Slaughterhouses and meat packing plants (beef, poultry, pork), for recovery of tallow from raw wastewater and activated sludge mixed liquor separation
• Fruit and vegetable canneries and food products manufacturers (potato chips, corn chips, etc.), for removal of suspended solids from fruit and vegetable wash water and flume water, and from process equipment cleaning.
• Breweries, distilleries, and wineries, for separation of solids from process wastewater prior to biological treatment, and treatment of pond effluent prior to discharge or reuse
• Tanneries, for primary solids separation and activated sludge mixed liquor separation
• Milk and dairy products processing plants, for primary solids separation and pond effluent treatment

Municipal Wastes

• Primary clarification with grit and scum removal, secondary clarification with solids thickening
• Domestic and combined domestic/industrial wastewater treatment plants, for primary solids separation and activated sludge mixed liquor separation
• Waste activated sludge thickening
• Removal of algae from pond effluent prior to discharge or filtration for reuse
• Tertiary separation of suspended solids from treated wastewater prior to disinfection and reuse.
• Landfill leachate, for primary separation and separation of activated sludge mixed liquor
• Septic tank, portable toilet, and industrial sump pumpings

Oily Wastes

• Oilfield produced water oil separation prior to re-injection
• Removal of oil from air compressor condensate
• Vehicle washing operations and oily sumps
• Purifying used antifreeze prior to recycling
• Petroleum refinery wastewaters
• Hydrocarbon cracking
• Ballast water from oil tanker ships
• Metal fabricating (coolants, cutting oils

Water Treatment (NSF 60 listed frothing agent for potable water applications)

• Removal of suspended solids as a polishing step prior to filtration or reverse osmosis

  Backwash water recovery

Aquatic, Maritime, and Groundwater Applications

• Algae harvesting
• Aquariums and fish hatcheries
• Removal of organic compounds and heavy metals from contaminated groundwater
• Shipboard domestic wastewater treatment
• Offshore drilling platforms – domestic and process wastewater
• Shipboard seafood processing wastewater treatment
• Removal of small quantities of emulsified oil from groundwater contaminated by leaking tanks or pipes.

Agricultural Wastes

• Animal feeding operations and dairies, for manure separation and pond effluent suspended solids removal
• Irrigation drainage water, for removal of selenium and pesticides
• Poultry farm wastewater
• Composting plant leachate treatment

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Textile Industry

• Textile dyeing and printing plants, for primary solids removal, removal of color from final effluent by ion flotation, and separation of activated sludge mixed liquor
• Commercial clothes laundries, for removal of suspended solids prior to discharge or partial reuse

Mining and Metallurgical Industries

• Scavenging fine particles in process of mineral refining and recovery from ores
• Mineral processing, special application for removal of small amounts of petroleum compounds from hot saturated sodium carbonate solution in the process of sodium carbonate refining from mined rock
• Mineral tailings pond effluent treatment for recovery of metals
• Metal plating and printed circuit board manufacturing, for removal of metals and cyanides from excess water and recycled water
• Primary metals smelting, aluminum reduction, coke plants etc., for removal of contaminants from air pollution scrubber blowdown water and for treating cooling water
• Metals rolling and forming (aluminum, steel, other metals), for removal of suspended solids, oil and grease from pickling and other process waters prior to discharge or reuse
• General manufacturing and maintenance (paint shop wastewater, cleanup)
• Aggregate plants, for separation of clay from gravel and sand wash water
• Coal flotation

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

• Organic chemical manufacturing, for primary solids separation and activated sludge mixed liquor separation
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing, for primary solids separation and activated sludge mixed liquor separation

Paper and Pulp Mills, Printing Plants