Water Desalination & Treatment
is a modular system for complete physical separation of toxic textile effluents — synthetic dyes, oils, and persistent organics that form ultrastable colloidal nanodispersions resisting settling, flocculation, and biological breakdown.
Technology brief
is a modular system for complete physical separation of toxic textile effluents — synthetic dyes, oils, and persistent organics that form ultrastable colloidal nanodispersions resisting settling, flocculation, and biological breakdown.
The challenge
Primary use cases: dyeing-process effluent treatment; in-plant water reuse; dye and oil recovery; export-compliance (REACH, ISO, ZDHC).
Industries and users: textile mills and dyehouses, from a single workshop to national sectors.
Scale: 200 t/day per unit; stackable/clusterable by plant size.
ARBOK solution
ARBOK TEXTILE-WASTE is a modular system for complete physical separation of toxic textile effluents — synthetic dyes, oils, and persistent organics that form ultrastable colloidal nanodispersions resisting settling, flocculation, and biological breakdown. Using low-temperature vacuum evaporation, it recovers water, dyes, and oils at component level with zero discharge, no sludge, no membranes, and no reagents. It converts a source of fines, export restrictions, and reputational risk into an in-plant closed loop with marketable recovered fractions.
Effluent enters a vacuum chamber where water evaporates at low temperature and recondenses clean; dyes (wet paste or dry concentrate), oils/hydrophobic fractions, and heavy solids separate by volatility and density. No filtration, no reagents, operates independently of wastewater composition.
Limitations: dry/concentrate fraction handling; offtake for recovered dyes/oils improves economics.
Market and application
Global textile dyeing is a top industrial-water polluter under tightening export and discharge rules. Indicative national deployments and savings: China ~300 units (~21.9 Mt/yr reuse, $180–450M/yr); India ~250 ($150–375M); Bangladesh ~120; Vietnam ~100; Pakistan ~110; Turkey ~90; Indonesia ~100; Egypt ~60; Mexico ~70.
Per 200 m³/day unit: total savings $1.2–1.5 million/yr; OPEX electricity only (≤ 1.0 kWh/m³). Payback driven by combined reuse + recovery + avoided fines. (Site CAPEX/payback to be modelled.)
Use cases
Primary use cases: dyeing-process effluent treatment; in-plant water reuse; dye and oil recovery; export-compliance (REACH, ISO, ZDHC).
Industries and users: textile mills and dyehouses, from a single workshop to national sectors.
Scale: 200 t/day per unit; stackable/clusterable by plant size.
Steps: effluent characterization → unit sizing → install → commissioning. Ambient operation, electricity only. Continuous, automated, minimal labor.
Retrofits to existing dyeing/finishing lines; SCADA/PLC ready; clustered per facility.
ARBOK TEXTILE-WASTE is a modular system for complete physical separation of toxic textile effluents — synthetic dyes, oils, and persistent organics that form ultrastable colloidal nanodispersions resisting settling, flocculation, and biological breakdown. Using low-temperature vacuum evaporation, it recovers water, dyes, and oils at component level with zero discharge, no sludge, no membranes, and no reagents. It converts a source of fines, export restrictions, and reputational risk into an in-plant closed loop with marketable recovered fractions.
Primary use cases: dyeing-process effluent treatment; in-plant water reuse; dye and oil recovery; export-compliance (REACH, ISO, ZDHC).
Industries and users: textile mills and dyehouses, from a single workshop to national sectors.
Scale: 200 t/day per unit; stackable/clusterable by plant size.
Effluent enters a vacuum chamber where water evaporates at low temperature and recondenses clean; dyes (wet paste or dry concentrate), oils/hydrophobic fractions, and heavy solids separate by volatility and density. No filtration, no reagents, operates independently of wastewater composition.
Limitations: dry/concentrate fraction handling; offtake for recovered dyes/oils improves economics.
Throughput: 200 m³/day per unit, continuous, modular.
Output water: COD < 5 mg O₂/L, BOD₅ < 2 mg O₂/L.
Energy: ≤ 1.0 kWh/m³. No membranes/filters/reagents.
Recovered fractions: dyes, oils/hydrophobics, bottom solids.
Vacuum phase-separation chamber; condensation/clean-water unit; dye and oil recovery train; solids extraction; PLC/automation. Modular, stackable by plant size.
Technical: handles azo, aniline, dispersive, reactive dyes; no membrane clogging; composition-independent.
Economic: per 200 m³/day unit — water reuse up to $150 000/yr, dye recovery up to $500 000/yr, oil separation up to $200 000/yr, avoided fines/disposal up to $500 000/yr; total $1.2–1.5 million/yr; OPEX electricity only.
Environmental: zero discharge, no sludge, no chemical dosing.
Strategic: enables export compliance and "water-as-a-service" in-plant loop; eligible for green finance/ESG.
Retrofits to existing dyeing/finishing lines; SCADA/PLC ready; clustered per facility.
Steps: effluent characterization → unit sizing → install → commissioning. Ambient operation, electricity only. Continuous, automated, minimal labor.
Proposed TRL 4 — ⚠ confirm. The note claims TRL 8 ("qualified in industrial textile operations"). With documented industrial installs that holds; absent that, TRL 4 (lab/relevant-environment validation) is defensible. Confirm install evidence.
Global textile dyeing is a top industrial-water polluter under tightening export and discharge rules. Indicative national deployments and savings: China ~300 units (~21.9 Mt/yr reuse, $180–450M/yr); India ~250 ($150–375M); Bangladesh ~120; Vietnam ~100; Pakistan ~110; Turkey ~90; Indonesia ~100; Egypt ~60; Mexico ~70.
Per 200 m³/day unit: total savings $1.2–1.5 million/yr; OPEX electricity only (≤ 1.0 kWh/m³). Payback driven by combined reuse + recovery + avoided fines. (Site CAPEX/payback to be modelled.)
Offtake markets for recovered dyes/oils; conservative mill operators; needs documented industrial reference; variable feed chemistry handling.
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