Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions

ZeeWeed 1500 Ultrafiltration (UF) Membrane

High quality and innovative pressurized ultrafiltration hollow-fibre membranes

ZeeWeed 1500 is an outside-in feed, hollow-fiber, PVDF ultrafiltration membrane. ZeeWeed 1500 will consistently deliver the highest quality effluent water.

Customer’s around the globe depend on the ZeeWeed 1500 for their drinking water treatment, tertiary filtration and, pre-treatment for brackish and seawater desalination. A versatile product, the ZeeWeed 1500 can be easily configured as a Veolia packaged plant for quick delivery and installation or, as a custom solution, engineered to specification.

ZeeWeed 1500 RMS takes this versatility to a new level. The Rackless Module System (RMS) is a simple, affordable and space-saving integrated header solution, ideal for all applications.

    Overview

    ZeeWeed 1500 Benefits

    ZeeWeed 1500 is an outside-in feed, hollow-fiber, ultrafiltration membrane. Our proprietary PVDF membrane is strong, fouling-resistant and easy to clean. ZW1500 will consistently deliver the highest quality effluent water. Key Product Features:

    • High solids tolerance: hollow-fibre outside-in feed membrane is ideal for treating waters with high solid concentrations.
    • Resilient: handles feed water turbidity spikes, variations in water quality and coagulant use.
    • Versatile: ability to retrofit other ultrafiltration and microfiltration systems.
    • Simple: easy to install, easy to operate, easy to maintain.
    • Customizable: the same module works as a standalone unit in a rack or in our integrated header solution, ZW1500-RMS.

    Applications

    An extremely versatile product, the ZW1500 membrane is ready for a huge variety of source waters and applications. Contact us for more information on how ZW1500 can help you achieve high quality water in a compact footprint. Application highlights:

    • Drinking water treatment.
    • Industrial process water treatment.
    • Tertiary filtration.
    • RO pre-treatment for brackish and seawater.
    • Custom and package plant systems available.

     

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    ZeeWeed 1500 Value

    Our customers trust ZeeWeed 1500 for reliably high-quality water. From municipal drinking water to filtration of industrial process water, ZeeWeed 1500 delivers value for plants of any flow size.

    • Performance: True Ultrafiltration with 0.02-micron pore size for high reject of turbidity, colloidal material and suspended solids (TSS), bacteria and, virus. Achieve SDI < 3 for RO pre-treatment.
    • Efficient: Operate at high recovery rates > 95% for water conservation and cost savings.
    • Easy to Clean: fouling-resistant PVDF membrane with high resistance to oxidants (eg. Sodium Hypochlorite, Chlorine).
    • Simple: Victaulic groove clamp connections for simple installation. 1.9m tall and 180mm diameter module is easy to handle and install.
    • Reliable: Meet or exceed drinking water and re-use water regulatory requirements.

    Approved globally for drinking water applications.

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    Rackless Module System

    ZeeWeed 1500 Rackless Module System (RMS)

    The ZeeWeed 1500 RMS is part of the revolutionary Veolia RMS family of products, available for both of our pressurized ultrafiltration membranes (1500 and 700B). Veolia RMS is a simple, cost-effective integrated header system – no rack required.

    Benefits of the ZeeWeed 1500 RMS:

    • Simple: Factory pre-assembled RMS kits make site installation easy and quick

    • Low Cost: 75% less than a typical rack

    • Modular: Customize plant layout using standard, pre-assembled kits and add new ZeeWeed 1500 modules at any time – no need to build extra rack space for future expansion

    • Optimize Footprint: 50% reduction in footprint compared to racked module installation

    • Customize Layout: Build RMS in 2 wide or 4 wide, single branch or double branch configurations – many possibilities

    Case Study

    Supporting Material

    The only truly universal rack, is no rack at all. This video highlights how ZeeWeed 1500 RMS can add great value to your water treatment facility.

    How It Works

    How ZeeWeed 1500 Membrane Filtration Works 

    Organics, silt, and other particulate material in water give it a cloudy, dark appearance. This makes the water unsafe for drinking and ineffective for industrial processes. ZW1500 ultrafiltration (UF) membranes remove these particles, bacteria and viruses for an exceptional clean water. This is possible because our ZW1500 UF membrane has a 0.02-micron pore structure that rejects these small particles and micro-organisms.

    ZeeWeed 1500 Ultrafiltration How It Works

     ZW1500 is perfect for drinking water because it removes harmful bacteria and viruses while preserving essential salts and ions in the water. For industrial applications, removing organic, colloidal and particulate matter prepares the water for further treatment by Nanofltration (NF) and/or Reverse Osmosis (RO) treatment. UF pre-treatment reduces fouling on downstream process equipment and additional filtration unit operations. This makes for a more efficient water treatment train.

    ZW1500 is a pressurized, outside-in flow, UF membrane module. ZW1500 does not require a pressure vessel – it is a fully self-contained, modular unit. Although ZW1500 can handle feed pressures up to 55 psi, high pressures are rarely required to achieve high output flow rates of clean, filtered water.

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    ZW1500 membranes work by feeding a pressurized source water to the bottom of the module. Once inside the module, the source water surrounds the thousands of membrane fibres contained within. The pressure causes water to travel (permeate) across the outside skin of the membrane and flow to the inside of the hollow fibre, leaving particulate, organics and bacteria behind. Clean water then travels up, through the membrane fibres and exits from the top of the module.

    Periodically, water filtration is stopped for cleaning. To clean ZW1500, flow of clean water is reversed. Clean water is pressurized on the inside of the membrane fibres and flows to the outside. This pushes off all the rejected material that has accumulated on the outside surface of the membrane and flushes it to waste. Simultaneous, air is applied to the bottom of the module to scour the membrane surface and aid in the cleaning process. This sequence of events is a called a backwash.

    These cycles of filtration and backwash can be easily automated to keep operation simple and membranes operating in top form.

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