Applications
Partial List of Alaqua Applications
Process Equipment:
Falling Film Evaporators, Forced Circulation Evaporators, LTV Evaporators,
MVR Evaporators, Crystallizers, Dryers, Spray Dryers, Tanks, Heat
Exchangers, Condensers, Flash Coolers, Molecular Sieves, Reactors, Columns,
Pressure Vessels, Sanitary 3A Systems, Computer Controls.
Field Crews:
Installation, Retrofit, Start-up, Commissioning, and Training.
Evaporator and Crystallizer Applications:
Acids, Alcohols, Aloe Vera, Ammonium Sulfate, Animal Blood, Apple Juice,
Aroma Recovery, Boric Acid, Brewer’s Malt, Calcium Salts, Caprolactam,
Caustic Soda, Citric Acid, Citrus Juice, Coffee Extract, Collagen, Copper
Sulfate, Desalination, Dextrose, Distillers Slop, Essence recovery, Ethanol
Stillage, Fructose, Gelatin, Glucose, Glycerin, Glycols, Grape Juice, Green
Liquor, Hydrochloric Acid, Herb Extracts, Juices, Kraft Liquor, Lactose,
Methanol Stillage, Milk, Motor Oil Refining, Phosphoric Acid, Potassium
Salts, Red Liquor, RO-concentrate minimization, Sodium Salts, Solvents
Separation, Steepwater, Stickwater, Stillage, Sucrose, Sugars, Sulfates,
Sulfites, Sulfides, Sulfuric Acid, Syrups, Tomato Juice, Tropical Fruits,
Urea, Vegetable Oil Refining, Wash Water, Waste Lubrication Oil, Wastewater,
Waste Automotive Oil recovery, Whey, Yogurt, Zero-Discharge applications,
and others...
Some Experience on our Services
Caustic Soda Evaporation Systems
Among the plants that our engineers have designed are the following:
- Dow Chemical at Plaquemine, 1000 tons/day commissioned in 1969, expanded
in 1993.
- Hooker Chemical Co. 1,500 tons/day in Taft La., commissioned in 1979,
expanded in 1988.
- Solvay Process at Syracuse, N.Y. commissioned in 1976.
- Pittsburgh Plate Glass, 500 tons/day, commissioned in 1979.
- Penn Salt at Wyandotte, Michigan, 500 tons/day, commissioned in 1959,
expanded in 1987, 1992.
- Reichold Chemical Co. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 100 tons/day, to anhydrous,
commissioned in 1962.

The above installations were all Nickel and Nickel Clad Construction and the
1st four were built under Dr. Chirico's patent for conispherical design.
RO Reject & Other Salts Evaporator / Crystallizer Systems
Among the plants that our engineers have designed are the
following:
- USA, RO reject wastewater evaporator / crystallizer, 25,000
lbs/hr water evaporation, 2002.
- OSW, US Gov., RO reject wastewater
evaporator / crystallizer, Roswell, NM, 1 MGD, 3,000 HP MVR.
- USA, 5,000 lbs/hr RO reject wastewater
evaporator / crystallizer, 1998.
- USA, Bechtel Corp. for PG&E, RO wastewater
evaporator / crystallizer 10,000 lbs/hr.
- IL, RO wastewater evaporator / crystallizer, 2,000 kgs/hr
feed water, 2004.
- Canada, 40,000 lbs/hr water evaporation, Na2SO4 and K2SO4
evaporator, 1997.
- Dow Co: 1,500 T/day NaCl Evaporator/Crystallizer System.
- Dow Co: Triple Salt Crystallizer system – NaCl, KCl,
Na2SO4.
- Hooker Chemical: 1,000 T/day NaCl evaporator /
crystallizer, NY.
- PPG: 600 T/day NaCl evaporator / crystallizer system.
- Huber: MVR evaporator for Na2SO4 salt cake.
- Kalium Corp: KCl, K2SO4 evaporator / crystallizer.
- Pacific Coast Borax: KCl, K2SO4 evaporator / crystallizer.
- Sherrit Gordon Mines: 2x 300 T/d (NH4)2SO4 crystallizer.
- American Potash: Evaporators and crystallizers for – soda
ash Na2CO3, 1,000 T/d potash KCl, 1,000 T/d K2SO4, boric
acid and Na2SO4 salt cake.
- Sterling Fibers, Na2SO4 Evaporator / Crystallizer.
- KSA, NaCl table salt crystallizer, 2001, commissioning
2002.
Milk Evaporator Systems
- Among the plants that our engineers have designed and fabricated are
the following:
- Wisconsin, USA. Whey MVR, water evaporation rate 50,000 lb/hr.
- Wisconsin, USA. Whey MVR, water evaporation rate 30,000 lb/hr.
- AZ, USA. Milk, whey, 6 effect TVR, 100,000 lbs/hr.
- Chile. Milk/Whey MVR, 30,000 lbs/hr water evaporation.
- Idaho, USA. Whey, MVR, 30,000 lbs/hr water evaporation.
- New York, USA. 1000 lbs/hr whey/milk evaporator, later expansion to 4,500
lbs/hr.
Sugar Evaporators
- Amalgamated Sugar, Falling Film, 50,000 lbs/hr evaporation.
- Spreckles Sugar, Long Tube Vertical, 30,000 lbs/hr evaporation.
- Sugana, Vienna, Austria , Calandria, White sugar, 30 m. tons/hr.
- Anguiano y Wong Asesores, Mexico, sugar concentrator, to 77 Brix.
- Asucar Guarani, Mexico, 1,700 kg/hr evaporator , 75 Brix concentrator.
- Iogen, Canada, 7,000 kg/hr water evaporation.
Pulp & Paper Industry
- Among the black liquor plants that our engineers have designed, the
following are in the range of 100,000 to 250,000 lbs/hr.
- Weyerhauser Timber Co. for black liquor and sulfite waste liquors.
- Macon Kraft for kraft black liquor.
- Clacasieu Pulp and Paper Co.
- Brown Company.
- Mead Kingsport.
- Rayonier sulfite waste liquor.
- Rhinelander Pulp Co.
- Consolidated Water and Pulp co. Sulfite liquor.
- Northern Pulp Co. Sulfite liquor.
- Puget Sound Pulp and paper. Ammonia Base Sulfite Liquors.
- Proctor & Gamble, black liquor.
- Sunoco, sulfite liquor.
- Nekosa Edwards black liquor.
- International Paper, black liquor.
- Virginia Pulp and Paper, black liquor.
- Plymouth pulp and paper, black liquor.
- Russia, NOVASIBEROSK BLACK LIQUOR.
- India, Travencore Bagasse liquor.
- Tasman Pulp and Paper, Australia.
- Florida Pulp and Paper, Black liquor.
- Champion Pulp and Paper, Black liquor.
MVR Evaporator Systems
Among the plants that our engineers have designed are the following:
- Rayonier, Pulp & Paper, Hoquiam, WA, Sulfite waste liquor (Red Liquor),
3,000 HP MVR, 300,000 lbs/hr water evaporation.
- OSW, US Gov., Water Desalination, Roswell, NM, 1 MGD, 3,000 HP MVR.
- White Clover Dairy, Kaukauna, Wisconsin, Whey MVR, water evaporation rate
50,000 lb/hr.
- White Clover Dairy, Menasha, Wisconsin, Whey MVR, water evaporation rate
30,000 lb/hr.
- United Dairies, Tempe, AZ, Milk, whey, 6 effect MVR, 80,000 lbs/hr.
- Santiago, Chile, Milk/Whey MVR, 30,000 lbs/hr water evaporation.
- Idaho, Whey, MVR, 30,000 lbs/hr water evaporation.
To learn more about our evaporator systems & crystallizer systems, please contact us today.
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