RO Concentrate as a Sidestream: Sizing Solidification for 18 Percent of Feed

A plant treating 400 m³/day of leachate at 75 percent recovery produces 100 m³/day of concentrate, and that 100 m³ is where the whole treatment chain either closes or fails. The concentrate arrives at COD 8,800 mg/L, ammonia 2,400 mg/L and conductivity 52 mS/cm, having started the day at 2,200, 600 …