Water Industry Alliance
Issue No. 43 - October/November 2008
Baleen sets up food, mining pilots
Since its incubation in 1999 at the University of South Australia, Baleen Filters has sold its filtration technology internationally and is growing distribution beyond conventional water treatment applications to include byproduct recovery, water recycle, re-use and reclaiming traditionally discarded water resources.
The Baleen filter was first adopted by the agricultural sector because it could remove traditionally non-filterable substances such as dirt and organic matter from water. The
filter is marketed as a stand-alone offering and a turnkey integrated treatment package
for water reclamation.
“We are finding that the Baleen filter technology has very far reaching
opportunity within the filtration and separation sector, and as such is not limited to the water industry alone,” Baleen marketing manager, Sam Laucke says.
Recent activity in the South African mining sector has increased ore recovery and
environmental remediation during wet processing on iron ore, coal and platinum
mine sites. Baleen is pushing into bio-fuel and water remediation sectors, for palm-oil and algae control respectively. Baleen plans to commercialise products for air and beverage filtration, including application to industrial plumes. Baleen improves water treatment plant performance upstream for load reduction, in-process for sludge thickening, or downstream for polishing final clarified effluent.
“We have a client just across the borde...
