Water is increasingly gaining importance. Not only is this the case in arid regions but also in countries like Germany. Water is a limited resource and is necessary for the preservation of human life and economic growth. In both cases quality and availability play a major role.

 

Essential challenges in wastewater treatment: efficiency, costs and effluent quality

 

The essential challenges of today are to ensure cost effective treatment and recycling processes for water and wastewater.
Membrane technology solves this task by being an innovative and trendsetting technology. Today membranes are successfully used in the treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater as well as for the production of drinking and process water from surface water. The water to be treated is often times surface water but can also be well water or water from sewage works effluents. Despite varying influent parameters, constant high effluent quality on the filtrate side as well as a stable process need to be guarantied