Automotive & Metal Industry

The automotive, aeronautic, and metal industries (in which are included: cars, trucks, planes, heavy machinery, and their components) are facing increasing environmental requirements, especially concerning COD, metal removal, and special molecules removal. Often residual metal levels, residual hydrocarbon, oil levels, and surfactant content become a problem that traditional chemical or biological treatment plants cannot solve. Sometimes, not even efficient automotive wastewater treatment plants can keep compliant with new requirements, coming either from external authorities or from the company’s internal decisions on goals and strategy. Besides, operating costs for existing plants are extremely high.

Thus, introducing advanced oxidation systems to these operations is key to solve these problems, either along with new wastewater treatment plants or just revamping/retrofitting existing ones. Often, we observe very short paybacks on investment with these revamping options. And, many companies use very expensive final or tertiary treatment procedures, like activated carbon adsorption, to try to solve these problems, most of the times unsuccessfully at a very high cost. So, VentilAQUA’s AOP technologies based on electrocoagulation show the way to metal, oils, and emulsion removal. At the end of the day, with our wastewater treatment solutions for the automotive industry, businesses in this sector may expect no more huge chemical dosage, no more activated carbon adding, and no more pH control up and down will be required.