Projects

Chimerical Technology has completed a multitude of various projects in the mining, industrial, food & beverage industries and in water purification. Here are some of our past projects.

Pilot Plant

Region: Randburg, RSA
Year: 2019
Process: NF, CIP
System: Commercial
Flow rate: 400-1000 L/h (dictated by 2.5" membranes)

Details:
The pilot plant is designed to test 2.5’’ spiral wound membranes in batch or semi-batch mode with operating pressures up to 60 bar. The system has flow rate control and built in temperature regulation for small volumes in closed loop re-circulation. The pilot plant has Clean-in-Place (CIP) capability to evaluate various chemicals for membrane cleaning cycles and baseline clean water flux determination.

Uranium Process Plant

Region: Kazakhstan
Year: 2019
Process: MF, UF, NF, CIP
System: Commercial
Flow rate: 9m3/h (acid from uranium solution)

Details:
This plant was designed to operate with 4" membranes based on flow rate. The plant contains all the equipment required to evaluate optimum membrane operating conditions and cleaning regimes. The membrane plant is designed with a relatively large capacity in order to allow for the option of installing the plant as a processing plant on completion of successful testing. The pilot plant could therefore be used to conduct the pilot study, provide operator training (whilst offline) from the process) and eventually integrated into the process as a full-scale processing plant. The Clean-In-Place (CIP) system is designed to evaluate cleaning frequency, cleaning chemical requirement and chemical consumption. CIP data can then be used to make predictions in terms of membrane life and resulting operations costs for long term operation.