Nitrate Removal from Coal Mine Water, China
Complete Nitrate Removal
INDUSTRY
Mining
LOCATION
China
FLOWRATE
12,000 m3/day
COMISSIONED
TBC
Summary
Clean TeQ Water is currently commissioning a BIONEX™ nitrate removal plant at a coal mine in China. The plant has been designed to treat and remove nitrate from 12,000 m3 /day of coal mine pit water to bring the total nitrogen concentration below 1 ppm to comply with local regulations governing mine water disposal. Key benefits of BIONEX™ include consistently remove nitrate to ultra low levels, and substantial operational cost savings due to the reuse of salt. The plant recently produced its first water, which can be seen in the video below.
First Water Video
Typical Water Quality for a BIONEX™ Plant
Species | Unit | Feed | Target |
Ca | mg/L | <75 | - |
Mg | mg/L | <10.69 | - |
Cl | mg/L | <252 | - |
SO4 | mg/L | <202 | - |
HCO3 | mg CaCO3/L | <181 | - |
NHx-N | mg/L | 0.8 | - |
NOx-N | mg/L | 4.79 | - |
Organic Nitrogen | mg/L | 0 | - |
TN | mg/L | <6.0 | < 1 |
TDS | mg/L | 1012.57 | - |
TSS | mg/L | 50 | - |