Benefits
Benefits of MINER, LLC
Cost-Effective Retrofit
The MINER, LLC provides a low-cost retrofit solution for existing water softeners and cooling towers to efficiently remove salts and facilitate on-site water conservation & recycling.
Prevention of "Source Control"
Prevents the “source control” of salt pollution, offering a politically acceptable solution without the need to outlaw softener installations or remove existing units.
Generation of Recyclable Sludge
Generates a semi-solid sludge for recycling or proper disposal, enhancing sustainability efforts.
Versatile Application
Can be utilized on any brine stream, including industrial wastewater and food processing waste, offering flexibility in implementation.
Water Quality Enhancement
Reduces salt levels to protect water quality, infrastructure investment, and the environment, ensuring a sustainable water supply for future generations.
Environmental Protection
By significantly reducing the discharge of salt into natural water bodies, The MINER, LLC helps preserve aquatic ecosystems, protects biodiversity and the overall balance of the environment.
The Water Value Cycle
The MINER, LLC fits into the Water Value Cycle as a technology to help public water systems (utilities) and their customers (the End User) deal with brine generated as a result of their treating “raw water” to make the water useable for the intended application. Utilities need to remove contaminants like nitrates or arsenic from their water supply to make it meet health standards prior to putting the now treated water into the Distribution System (the pipes, valves and pumps that move the now treated water to the End User.) Removing these contaminants produces a wastewater (a “brine”) that must be managed. The MINER, LLC further removes the contaminant producing useable water and a solid containing the target contaminant.
End Users receive the treated water from the utility. To the different End Users this is “raw water” because it has hardness and other non-health related contaminants and thus it needs to be further treated so that it is suitable for the specific intended use. These treatments produce another wastewater (a “brine”). The MINER, LLC further removes these contaminants producing useable water and a solid containing these target contaminants.
In both cases the water after treatment by The MINER, LLC is re-useable allowing for on-site recycling – the most efficient way to conserve and recycle water.