Kurita understands membrane system challenges faced by food and beverage plants

Kurita offers an innovative 360° solution for the full water cycle of food and beverage plants, helping to save water and energy and improve productivity.

Creating sustainable membrane treatment solutions to increase water production and reduce environmental impact is critical to meeting the food and beverage industry’s rising demand for quality water. 

Avista, a global brand of Kurita, offers industry-leading expertise in membrane system troubleshooting, foulant identification, targeted membrane chemicals, and application support for food and beverage plants worldwide.

Avista Membrane Treatment Solutions

Avista assists membrane plant managers, system engineers and operators to determine the right chemicals required to optimise their membrane systems.

• Extend membrane life: Targeted antiscalants and cleaning chemicals maintain membrane health and maximise service life.
• Optimise chemical dosing: Lower chemical dose rates optimise system performance while saving money and reducing fouling and scaling issues.
• Reduce cleaning frequency: Selecting the right cleaning chemicals extends system run times between cleanings, reduces chemical costs, and extends productive membrane life and overall system uptime.
• Maximise water savings: A comprehensive audit will discover opportunities to maximise system recovery and enhance operation to achieve significant water savings and help meet sustainability goals.
• Reduce energy consumption: Our approach to system operations analysis identifies ideal pretreatment chemistries, antiscalants and cleaners to help reduce operating pressures, decrease energy costs and increase energy savings.
• Increase recovery rates: Our evaluation of system design and operations combined with proper antiscalant selection can achieve optimal system recovery to increase water production and decrease scaling potential.

Avista Membrane Chemicals

Avista’s global line of membrane treatment chemicals is manufactured worldwide to cover a full spectrum of foulants and scales.

1. RoQuest coagulants are membrane compatible and improve the efficiency of multimedia filtration (MMF) equipment.

2. Kuriverter AC-427 is an odourless liquid sodium bisulfite formulation used to remove free and combined chlorine from reverse osmosis feedwaters.

3. Kuriverter IK-110 is a liquid combination product based on stabilized chlorine compounds which will not deteriorate polyamide membranes.

4. Vitec antiscalants inhibit scale while dispersing colloidal particles, helping to extend system run times, reduce cleaning frequency, and increase the product life of membranes.

5. RoClean cleaners are highly buffered and contain a unique blend of ingredients that wet and break up foulant, suspend the foulant in solution, and disperse the foulant to prevent redeposition. 

Avista Services

Avista services include laboratory analysis and off-site cleaning and restoration, as well as dosing and normalisation software to support and solve site-specific challenges.

• Avista Membrane Autopsy: This service is customised to target specific customer challenges. Chromatic Elemental Imaging (CEI) is used for accurate, high-resolution imaging that identifies the exact location and composition of a foulant sample. We assist customers in understanding the findings of our autopsies and identify any operational or system changes.
  
• Avista Oscar: When cleaning on-site is not practical or possible, off-site cleaning and restoration is available to restore membrane performance to original membrane manufacturer specifications. Oscar was developed using equipment specifically designed to provide ideal flow rates, water temperature and cleaning pressures. 
• Avista Black Box: A proprietary, stand‐alone monitoring device that replicates membrane performance without interrupting the operation of the full-scale system. 
• Avista Advisor Ci Online: A proprietary chemical dosing software with complex ion technology to maximise system recovery for even the most challenging applications.

Membranes have one life – Make the most of it

Our impact study demonstrates how Avista Membrane Treatment Solutions helped a beverage plant uncover and solve the drivers for high operational costs and high membrane replacement rates. For an in-depth view of this impact study, download our technical paper.

Download the Technical Guide here.

Contact details
Kurita UK Ltd
Avista | Centre of Excellence

13 Nasmyth Square, Houstoun Industrial Estate
Livingston, EH54 5GG
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 0 131 449 6677
Fax: +44 0 131 449 5599
Website: avistamembranesolutions.com