Veolia Water Technologies by GineersNow Engineering Magazine GineersNow Engineering Magazine September 2016 | Page 69

BREWERY WASTES
CAN NOW BE
REUSED AS CLEAN
WATER
If you are drinking quite a
lot of liters of beer in a week,
you are in a way helping treat
water, although far indirectly
– because there is now a
water treatment system that
converts used brewing water
into reusable water.
Developed by Cambrian
Innovation,
this
water
treatment system called
EcoVolt Mini will allow the
Seismic Brewing Company in
Santa Rosa, California to use
its wastewater into usable
water.
Chris Jackson, founder and
CEO of the company, said he
wanted his new brewery to
be water efficient considering
California is a drought-stricken
state. He aimed to have a
water to beer ratio of 2:1.
The odds are on his side as
Cambrian had an on-site, one-
container water treatment
and reuse system ready to
order.
The system is designed for
small and midsize food and
beverage producers. This
will remove 99.9 per cent of
contaminants and solidsfrom
Seismic’s brewing wastewater;
in turn, the recycled water
will be used for the industrial
processes in the brewery.
In essence, Seismic will
significantly reduce freshwater
use causing company’s
expenses with water bills
to cut down. Cambrian
estimated that a brewery can
save from $100,000 to more
than $1 million a year using
an EcoVolt system.
Let’s drink to that!
SEPTEMBER 2016
Clean Water Technologies
69