Amprey
Amprey is Muddy River Technologies’ patented breakthrough technology that applies an AC current to dissolve metal anode pellets into water. The released highly reactive metal ions remove a wide range of dissolved, emulsified, or particulate contaminants.
Water flows up through Amprey’s electrically charged packed bed of iron or aluminum or magnesium pellets. Electricity vastly accelerates the rate that these consumptive metal pellet anodes are dissolved into water, converting contaminants into separable insoluble solids.
Once they are agglomerated as particulate solids, the contaminants are removed by solids separation methods such as flotation, filtration, or gravity settling.
Amprey’s advantages over other EC systems stem from its simple design.
- Amprey is easy to use and low cost to operate to deliver effective wastewater treatment performance.
- Amprey’s metal pellet anodes complete the electric circuit, so water of any conductivity can be treated.
- Amprey has no moving parts. Electrical power connections are simple and robust.
- Amprey’s upflow packed bed of metal pellets provides consistent performance and minimizes the voltage needed to provide AC current for treatment. Minimum power requirements eliminate anode fouling and reduce both capital and operating costs.
- Amprey’s metal pellet anodes are entirely consumed by treatment. Periodically replacing consumed metal anode pellets with new pellets is easy to do.
- Amprey can operate unattended for extended periods, requiring only minimal operator intervention.
- Industrial wastewaters contaminated with low solubility constituents such as emulsified oils and petroleum hydrocarbons or suspended solids
- Water contaminated with dissolved metals that can be precipitated and/or reduced as insoluble metal hydroxides
- Water recycle applications such as parts cleaning or car washes where avoiding accumulation of contaminants or water treatment reagents enable repeated reuse of treated water rather than its disposal
Sizing:
Amprey sizing depends on the concentration of contaminants and water flow rate.
Simple treatability testing of a representative water sample is all that is needed to design Amprey, estimate operating costs, and determine capital costs.
Amprey is modular in design, so virtually any flow rate can be treated by Amprey cells connected in parallel if needed.
