‘WOOW’ enables recovery of chemicals from industrial waste

By admin July 16, 2015 11:26 am IST

Geist Research’s ‘new to the world’ technology of recovering chemicals from industrial waste is a sustainable technology.Sandra D’sa, General Manager, Marketing, Geist Research Pvt. Limited
 Geist Research has come up with a very unique concept to eliminate chemical waste without having to worry much about the costs. The implementation of WOOW or waste out of water is helping clients to leverage the benefits of this unique technology. OEM Update spoke with Ms Sandra D’sa, General Manager, Marketing, Geist Research Pvt. Limited. Ms D’sa discusses about a novel concept of recovering chemical waste from effluents or plants that generate chemical waste. By implementing the concept, companies are able to make money from selling the chemical recovered from the effluents. Ms D’sa calls it a strategy that is very different from conventional methods of disposal of chemical waste. Geist Research Pvt. Limited is a part of Earth Water Group and is partly funded by the Clean Technology Fund of CLSA Capital Partners. In the interview, Ms D’sa gives us detailed inputs on the technologies that Geist research provides for the use of several industries that generate chemical waste.
What is the innovative technology that Geist research provides?Geist Research offers innovative, proprietary and complete technology solutions to industrial waste water problems but with a difference. Geist generates guaranteed profits from Zero Liquid Discharge. We have developed 4 novel WOOW (Wealth out of waste) technology platforms that enable us to recover pure chemicals from a wide variety of industrial waste waters and completely recycle the water back to the parent process. These recovered pure chemicals can generate a revenue stream that makes the whole venture profitable.  What makes it a distinct technology?Currently chemical processing companies are managing their effluent either by treating it in ETPs and then discharging into receiving water bodies. However, this system is clearly inadequate to deal with increased industrialisation and increasing complexity of manufacturing processes. This does not even consider secondary and tertiary effects of millions of chemicals being discharged into the water bodies, because there is no data available for these. The chemical processing industry is one of the largest contributors to contamination of water bodies by adding millions of chemicals daily reducing the assimilative capacity of the receiving water body.
Geist offers systems with guaranteed performance and profitability based on our proprietary technologies and assures a payback on investment of less than 2 years. This ensures voluntary compliance in this era of global competitiveness. The complete solution can be offered on a turnkey basis or a risk-free Design-Build-Own- Operate basis.