Overview

Waterex Pty Ltd is an engineering, design and supply company that implements water, waste water and hydro metallurgical projects and/or equipment supply.

Waterex has well proven in house expertise in thickening, clarification, cooling tower, filtration, water and effluent treatment technologies.

Our areas of excellence include the following.

Liquid Filters

Pressure Filters

• Sand Filters
  • Both manual and fully automatic models available.
  • High dirt holding capacity
  • Stabilised bed designs
• Redox Filters
  • For iron removal,
  • Bacteriostatic,
  • Heavy Metal removal.
• Cartridge and Bag Filters
• For small to medium sized applications.
• Particle and/or suspended solids removal down to 1 micron.
• Activated carbon cartridge filters.
• 0.4 or 0.2 micron for bacterial control.
• Media Filters
  • Very high dirt holding capacity
  • Stabilised filter beds
  • Air scour options
  • Ultra fine media filtration to 10 or even 5 microns
  • Filter large water or industrial process volumes
  • Dual media or triple media.
  • Activated carbon, with or without volatile stripping capability.

Gravity Filters

• Wrex Upflo Filters
  • Well suited to very dirty applications or heavy suspended solids in the feed.
• Moore Airlift Filters
  • Rapid gravity filters
  • Typically used in large water treatment plants
  • Require no backwash pumps
• AGF autonomous filters
  • Ideal for remote locations
  • Well suited to remote sections of large plants
  • No power, air or other services required for full automation
• Girosand continuous filters
  • Typically used in mineral processing or precipitate removal applications
  • Well suited to borehole water source polishing applications.

Pin-Bed Filters

• Combined Ultra High Rate Thickener and Pin-Bed Filter or Hydro Separator.

Membrane Separators

• Microfiltration.
• Ultrafiltration.
• Nanofiltration.
• Hyperfiltration or reverse osmosis (RO).
• Electro de-ionization.

Deionisers & Ion Exchange Equipment

• Separate bed
• Mixed bed &
• Electro de-ionisation plant-EDI.

Ultraviolet Sterilizers

• Single unit capacities of 0.22 m3/hr to 216.0 m3/hr/unit.
• Variety of materials of manufacture for:
  • Saline or sea water.
  • Potable water.
  • Aquaculture.
  • Brewery/beverage water and/or beverage syrups.
  • Photolysis destruction of soluble organic contaminants.
  • Ultra pure water.
  • Cooling tower slipstreams.
• TOC Removal
• Dechlorination UV

Liquid Waste Treatment Plant

• Dissolved air flotation systems.
• WREX high efficiency DAF units.
• +98% rapid suspended solids removal.
• Aerobic treatment plants.
• Package upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors.
• Lamella plate oil/light grease separators.
• Aqueous, toxic, organic destruction plants.
• Rotating disc units.
• Effluent remediation plants to meet statutory requirements.

Cooling Tower & Closed Circuit Coolers

• Counterflow.
• Crossflow.
• Induced and forced draught designs available.
• Closed circuit coolers.
• Spray coolers for high scaling or sludge laden applications.
• Evaporative condensers.
• Field erected towers.

Specialized Process Plant

• Micro bubble, mineral flotation thickening.
• Activated carbon solvent extraction strip column.
• Elution columns.

Strainers

• Kleerflo Automatic strainers
  • High capacity up to 2500 m3/hr/unit
  • Available in a wide variety of materials, including glass lined steels, stainless steels and duplex steels.

Thickeners, Settlers & Clarifiers

• Waterex Hirate bridge thickeners up to 28 metres in diameter.
• Auto dilution.
• Waterex pin-bed clarifier.
• Ultra Hirate thickeners.
• Floc cylinder designs generating high clarity overflows.
• WREX deep cone thickeners.
• Free standing steel tanks to suit all sizes.