Valves Allow True Colors to Shine at Spanish Textile Plant

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The conception and construction of water treatment plants on aturnkey programme basis enables Astramatic to be a specialist ableto adjust its competence to virtually any customer’s needsand according to legal or regulatory specifications. Its projectsadd value to its client’s operations and are fully customizedto those client’s needs.

The Project
In the middle of 2007, work started on the Fibracolor’sregeneration and recycling plant (RRP), an important Spanishtextile tinting company, in which Astramatic had decided to installPVC valves and accessories from the CEPEX range of products. Thegoal is to use this treatment plant for tertiary wastewatertreatment of EDAR, a reversed osmosis purifying plant forwastewater in Tordera (Barcelona). The water treatment is dividedinto four different phases: main pumping, filtering,ultrafiltration and RO. The RRP will recycle the water that’scurrently pumped into the discharge water used byFibracolor’s other industrial facilities, putting it throughthe multiphase treatment regimen to prepare it for reuse, therebyreducing the company’s overall water consumption.
With each multiphase treatment process, 600m 3 /h of water can be recycled and the plant is projected to be fullyoperational by summer 2008. When finished it will be the firstindustrial RRP in Spain and the second one in Europe using theintegral four-phase recycling process. Moreover, the wholeinstallation is operated by PLC control centers that, using touchscreens that can control the movements of all water conduits andvalves.
The Solution
PVC is used for all conduits, tubes and valves due to its highresistance against wear and tear, temperature fluctuations andcorrosion. Most metal corrodes easily, is much heavier than PVC andis often non-recyclable.