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Integrated Effluent Solutions (IES) was formed in 2002 to provide industrial companies a complete solution in the field of effluent (industrial waste water) including chemistry, process and engineering.

Since then, we have established an excellent reputation nationwide for delivering professional, technical & cost effective service. In 2007 IES was awarded a Department of Trade & Industry Innovation for Research & Development by One North East. This award allowed IES to undertake extensive research & develop a unique, patented technology to remove sulphate from water.

In 2008 we expanded into new premises & in 2011 IES invested over £120,000 on laboratory facilities, allowing us to not only to conduct laboratory treatment trials but to analyse samples in house.

IES has clients nationwide & has now expanded into the export market. Our clients are in all different fields of industry with differing problems & requirements. Our tailored & personal approach means we can deliver solutions to meet their individual needs.

As part of our commitment to continuous development we sponsor a PhD student at Northumbria University, who continually progresses our ideas, discovering new treatment methods. We are currently researching filter cake recycling & reduction in chemical oxygen demand.

We have a proven track record in developing innovative solutions - such as the patented sulphate technology - which has been recognised as an emerging technology by the European Commission. We have a good relationship with several water authorities & the Environment Agency.

In 2012 the company worked hard to achieve IS0 9001 & 14001 accreditations.

We operate to strict to strict quality & procedural industry guidelines. We are currently registered with URS, a national accreditation organization of UKAS certification standards.

“IES have provided the Royal Mint with a number technical solutions to challenges encountered within our effluent treatment system. This has allowed us to refine our effluent treatment processes to make them more efficient and cost effective. IES is a forward looking company who provide state of the arttechniques that allow process optimisation whilst delivering environmentally sympathetic results.”

Steve Clode, Senior Technical Leader The Royal Mint

OUR CORE ACTIVITIES:

• Supply of specialist chemicals & packaged bacteria • Design & supply of effluent treatment plants & associated equipment • Sulphate treatment technology • Effluent treatment advice & solutions • Pilot plant trials

EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

With over twenty years of experience in industrial effluent treatment, IES offer the following:

• Detailed assessment of existing treatment chemistry / plant with a report detailing areas of improvement • Optimisation of existing treatment chemistry / plant

• Design and supply of new treatment plant / equipment • Training for site personnel • Service visits both technical & engineering / maintenance • Desktop effluent treatment studies • Effluent treatment feasibility studies • Cost saving and Mogden formula assessments • Waste reduction

“IES have a proven track record in developing groundbreaking technologies.”

COMPANY MISSIONTo innovate industrial waste water solutions, achieving results to meet & exceed our clients expectations

OUR VISION

To remain at the forefront of effluent treatment technology & to ensure current & future clients’ needs are met & problems solved

COMPANY VALUES

• Professional, technically compliant and ethical• Friendly and straightforward when dealing with clients• Ensuring excellent customer support• Committed to seeing projects to completion• Continually seeking & developing new technology• Working with clients to protect the environment maintaining EA permit/Water authority consents

CLIENTS INCLUDE

• Royal Mint • De La Rue • Mahle Engine systems • Synthomer • Henrob • Britannia Foods • Greencore Foods • Augean plc • Graphic plc • Technoflex plc

OUR SERVICES

At IES we work with our clients to provide a tailored solution to meet their individual needs. After their requirements are established by asking the client to complete a detailed questionnaire and an initial effluent sample is analysed, we work from first principles to eliminate the problem and carry out treatability trails.

We have invested heavily in our laboratory facility with the addition of state of the art ion chromatography and voltammetry for trace analysis of metals and other contaminants. This allows analysis down to parts per billion. Also on hand we have portable test kits for plant trials.

We have a team of chemically qualified personnel that has been expanded with the addition of an experienced graduate chemist and a laboratory technician.

Our laboratory can offer effluent evaluation with treatment options, analysis only of any water or chemical sample for anions, metals and COD, as well as more unique projects based around IC or voltammetry.

This ensures that our client’s requirements and those of the regulators are complied with.

A small charge is levied for the laboratory work; this charge is waived if the client proceeds with our recommendations.After conducting the laboratory trials, a report detailing the options and estimating the costs of the solutions and our recommendations is reported to the client. This could include design & quotation of a new effluent treatment plant, proposal for chemical trails or pilot plant trails or any other requirements. The next stage could require a site visit and/or meeting to discuss all potential future options available.

All plant trails are supervised by our qualified chemists, to ensure they are conducted as per the laboratory trails & to ensure where possible, the best possible results are achieved.

PILOT PLANT

IES has a pilot plant that can be available for hire to carry out treatment studies on site. The pilot plant and associated services are tailored to the client’s requirements. The cost of hire is often refunded against purchase of new plant.

The pilot plant consists of:

• Agitated treatment tanks • Ultrasonic reactor • Lamella clarifier • Digital dosing pumps • Automated pH control • Sludge tank • Filter press • Transfer pumps

The pilot plant can be used to treat between 1-5m3/hr.

Pilot Plant being prepared for client trials

OUR SERVICES

SULPHATE TECHNOLOGY

IES have developed & patented a technology to remove sulphate ions from water.

The technology was successfully tried at the Royal Mint & a full scale plant at Rimex Metals (UK) Ltd. The technology is recognised as best available technology & is included as an emerging technology in the European Commission brief.

Benefits of Sulphate Technology include:

• Single stage settlement & dewatering.• Process does not suffer from limescale.• Possibility the filter cake can be re-used/recycled.• Wide range of contaminants removed in addition to sulphate – heavy metals, phosphate and chemical oxygen demand. • Possibility of re-using the water using reverse osmosis. • The membranes won’t foul/scale due to the quality of the water produced by the precipitation reaction. • Process is applicable to a wide range of industries & effluents.

At Rimex Metals (UK) Ltd produce surface finishes on stainless steel & other metals.

BIOLOGICAL SERVICES

IES are authorised distributors for Bio Systems International Ltd products.

Products are supplied in liquid, water soluble packets & soluble blocks.

Products supplied include:

• Complex organic, surfactants, benzene compounds, phenols, alcohols & amines• Food waste & grease.• Dairy waste• Hydrocarbons• Fruit, vegetable & wine• Paper and Pulp• Ammonia• Nutrients

CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS

All of our chemical products are supplied with technical support & products are recommended after laboratory tests to choose the most suitable product.

Our Chemical Solutions include:

• Flocculants supplied as emulsions, liquid, powder/bead or block. Anioinic, cationic and non-ionic. With various molecular weights. • Coagulants – organic, inorganic & blends. Tannin products.• Antifoams – general purpose & food grade products.• Dust suppressants.• De-scalants and anti-scalents.• Wide range of metal precipitants varying in activity & toxicity. Include unique products.

“The system from IES solved the problem of sulphates in our effluent. This has allowed Rimex Metals to discharge to sewer meeting our consent to discharge and saving the cost of external tankers.“

Tim Childs, Managing Director Rimex Metals (UK) Ltd

IES TECHNOLOGY

A patented continuous flow effluent treatment vessel which can be used in conjunction with the above technologies & standard technologies such as:

• Neutralisation• Coagulation and flocculation• Chemical precipitation• Oxidation and reduction• Solids liquid separation e.g. lamella clarifier/separator or dissolved air flotation.• Biological treatment• Filtration e.g. carbon filtration or membrane• Sludge dewatering e.g. filter press, centrifuge or belt press

A novel & patented combination of an ultrasonic reactortogether with chemical oxidation to lower the chemical oxygen demand of the effluent. This allows COD reduction to be carried out rapidly and efficiently, this allows the size of the treatment plant to be reduced.

The application of metal chelating polymers to ensure heavy metals are removed to low levels. The metals can be removed at a wide range of pH’s and even if the metal is a complex, the metal can be precipitated without the need for a pre-treatment step. The metal once bound forms a stable insoluble complex, which does not leach.

A unique & patented combination of an ultrasonic reactor together with chemical precipitation to ensure that the soluble sulphate is reduced to an acceptable level. The filter cake from the process has chemical properties which make the filter cake non hazardous and it should be able to be re-used as a raw material, aggregate or as an adsorbent.

THE ROYAL MINT

IES has been working with the Royal Mint since 2005, during this time we have carried out several projects including:

• Investigation into the causes of scaling problems in effluent.• Reduction in the quantity of filter cake produced when treating nickel rinse water by using a metal precipitant (Epofloc L1-R) to aid in the removal of nickel rather than the traditional method of co-precipitation with iron. • Investigation into the feasibility of diverting all the site effluent into the sewer.• Upgrade of the caustic dosing system on the sewer effluent plant.• Pilot plant trials on the Sulphate removal technology• Production of a generic specification for the new effluent plant.• Appointment as consultant for the process engineering for the new effluent plant.• Awarded contracts for the supply of the clarifiers and the ultrasonic reactors for the new effluent plant.

CASE STUDY

"The Royal Mint takes environmental responsibility very seriously. It is our duty to ensure that no harm results within the community as a result of our manufacturing processes. To ensure we accomplish the tightest controls we have formed a partnership with IES whom advice on the latest technologies available to achieve this. The Royal Mint is currently in the process of building new effluent plant with IES being employed as principal environmental consultant. This will permit the business to make 100 % discharge of our trade effluents to the sewer. We look forward to a future partnership with IES in the confidence they have the ability to deliver the best practical solutions to meet our requirements."

Graham Hartry, Environmental Manager Blank ProcessingThe Royal Mint

Britannia Food Ingredients Ltd. is a speciality fats company for the chocolate, confectionery, biscuit and snack food industries.

The site in Goole was built with fat traps installed but as production grew these were likely to be undersized with the loading from the process. IES Ltd investigated the options and supplied a reconditioned dissolved air flotation unit which separates the fats/grease from the water prior to discharge to sewer.

“IES have been an invaluable partners in ensuring our growth program does not impact on our environmental responsibilities. We continue to use Andy and his team as an essential source of information, products and equipment for all our waste water treatment for the current facilities and future projects.”

Richard Stockdale, Operations Manager

CASE STUDIES

BRITANNIA FOOD INGREDIENTS LTD

GREENCORE PREPARED MEALS

At the Kiveton site, prepared meals and quiches are produced. All the process water flows into an effluent plant which was struggling to control the pH. IES installed a pH correction system with auto clean pH from ATI and Grundfos dosing pumps. The system alarms using text message should it go out of consent.

Solids were being tankered off site every day, so IES installed a rundown screen so the solids are dewatered on site, saving the cost of tankering.

“IES have worked with Greencore Kiveton for two years, upgrading our effluent treatment process and providing technical support on related issues, to enable the Company optimise our environmental performance and improve efficiency. Throughout this time we have found them to be able to deliver practical solutions to all our needs from technical queries through to full system solutions.”

Mark Beaumont, Site SHE Manager

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