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Phosphoric Acid Filtration

Acid Purification System

Acids such as phosphor, sulfur, nitric, and hydrochloride are essential ingredients in many products, such as fertilizers, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, mineral leaching, petroleum refining, and food and beverage. Yet these acids are crucial for treating to obtain the best acid quality.

Pure acid is liquid with a very low pH. They are essential to obtain superior acid quality to offer the best industrial merchant grade acid (MGA) and meet all regulatory standards and requirements on MGA.

Yet, as they are highly corrosive, they require durable and robust filtration technologies. To obtain the best MGA cost-effectively, LiqTech has developed an acid ultrafiltration system. The system is robust and can be used for caustic acid filtration, phosphoric acid filtration (PA filtration), and much more.

The LiqTech acid purification system can deliver results that are simply impossible or impractical for conventional filtration technologies to reach. The acidic filtration system provides mechanical separation of unwanted solids and particles to purify the pure acid. It is a reliable solution, ensuring a stable and cost-effective operation that can go on and on. With a durable and dependable acid purification system, you do not need to worry about replacement costs.

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Features & Benefits

LiqTech Acid Purification System Benefits

Advantages of the LiqTech acid filtration system

  • Excellent permeate quality
  • Higher removal rate than conventional filtration technologies
  • Low maintenance - Close to no maintenance
  • Low power usage and low pressure
  • Low operational cost, low total cost of ownership
  • Market-proven solution
  • No Particle breakthrough
  • High-quality MGA
  • High capacity – low footprint
  • No daily/weekly exchange of filter material
  • Future-proof solution
  • Remote service and control 24/7 – anywhere in the world
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Ceramic Membrane Benefits

Ideal for harsh applications

  • Highest flux for any membrane material
    With 2-3x the flux of other ceramics and up to 10x polymeric
  • Chemically inert pH 0-14
  • Thermally resistant up to 800°C
  • Hydrophilic material (water-loving)
  • Extremely hard & durable material 2930 +/- 80 kgf/mm³ (Vickers scale)
  • Low fouling
  • Abrasive Feeds
  • Low power usage and low pressure
  • Long membrane life
  • Low operational cost, low total cost of ownership
  • UF systems with these membranes have a small footprint and reduced energy cost since less pressure is required
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Phosphoric Acid Filtration

Proven Solution for Phosphoric Acid Filtration

Phosphoric acid (PA) is an essential industrial chemical heavily applied in the fertilizer industry, metallurgical industry, and the food and beverage industry. In the light of today’s challenges, such as population growth and depletion of resources, the phosphate industry is stepping up its contribution by delivering innovative technologies for future acid purification.

The LiqTech acid purification system is ideal for phosphoric acid filtration, also known as PA filtration. PA filtration can be used for phosphate rock (PR), phosphatic fertilizers, phosphate-based food and beverage ingredients, phosphate-based pharmaceutical ingredients, and much more.

Due to the durable membranes, the phosphoric acid filtration system delivers excellent MGA quality. The acid ultrafiltration system can remove >0-06 µm (60 nm). Additionally, no leaf filter media is needed, allowing you to cut costs on media filters and material costs and resources for changing the filter. Moreover, the system requires close to no maintenance. The membranes are frequently backwashed automatically to avoid membrane fouling. Once backwashed, complete recovery is obtained.

The phosphoric acid filtration system provides an unmatched flux and requires the minimum footprint, allowing you to upgrade your capacity to the fullest.

Durable Acid Filtration

The LiqTech acid purification system can handle even the most aggressive and corrosive fluids in the lowest pH range. Regardless of the condition of the feedwater, excellent permeate quality is reached.

Acid Filtration With Ceramic Membranes

The LiqTech acid water treatment system is based on state-of-the-art patented membrane technology. Based on more than 20 years of research and development, we have refined our ceramic membranes enabling our liquid filtration systems to handle even the most aggressive fluids due to a high level of mechanical, thermal, and chemical stability. The ceramic silicon carbide membranes can withstand liquids in the whole pH spectrum from pH 0-14. This allows the membranes to operate with acids used in fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, metal surface treatment, etc.

The LiqTech acid purification system is a low-pressure system requiring low energy. Moreover, it uses no chemicals for operation, only for chemical Cleaning-in-Place (CIP). CIP is performed effectively with significantly reduced water consumption. All these superior attributes allow you to reduce your OPEX significantly and ensure a low cost of ownership.

The acid purification system is customized to match your specific needs, ensuring your company’s most efficient and durable operation.

The Sustainable Solution for a Greener Tomorrow

The LiqTech acid filtration system is a clean way to produce merchant-grade acid for various industries. It is a low-energy and chemical-free system.

At LiqTech, we aim to ensure sustainable progress through innovative liquid filtration systems. The LiqTech acid purification system is driven by low pressure, which requires low energy.

Additionally, it can operate without chemicals. Chemicals are only needed for chemical Cleaning-in-Place to avoid membrane fouling and maintain superior hygiene standards. It is thus a safe and clean technology, enabling you to take the lead in sustainable change.

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The Acid Filtration Process

The primary aim of our acid purification system is to remove particles from the acid to deliver a pure acid of premium quality living up to MGA requirements. The LiqTech acid purification system provides high-quality purified acid without using chemicals in the purification process.

The feed passes through the ceramic membranes by feed pumps. The filtration operates continuously, delivering the feed as permeate to permeate tanks. The remaining retentate is bled to posttreatment dewatering, such as a filter press.

To avoid membrane fouling, the systems regularly clean the membranes. In regular intervals, the filtration skids perform system backwashes. This is a cleaning action where the filtration is reversed, pushing permeate back through the membranes and thereby flushing the pores.

From time to time, the membranes need to be chemically cleaned. This is done preemptively to avoid irreversible fouling. The process is called Cleaning-in-Place (CIP) and can either be conducted with neutral technical water or alkaline. The CIP chemicals are injected into a single filtration skid at a time, taking it offline for the duration. The spend CIP solution is transferred for handling.

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