Salt
Salt Industry Crystallization
Inorganic Crystallization Expertise
HPD® Evaporation and Crystallization in the Salt Industry
HPD® single-stage salt crystallizer at Pure Salt Baytown
The salt industry relies on evaporators and crystallizers to produce many varieties of salt including food grade, chlor-alkali, and other chemical grade salts.
Veolia Water Technologies has numerous systems operating successfully around the globe utilizing HPD Crystallization. These include the largest multiple-effect evaporative salt plant and the three, largest MVR single-stage, evaporative salt plants in the world.
Industry Experience Worldwide
Veolia provides both batch or continuous pre-treatment processes to provide a high-purity feedstock for chlor-alkali, chemical-grade, pharmaceutical, or food-grade salts.
Whether expanding an existing facility, building a new plant or treating a sodium chloride sidestream, HPD crystaliization technology is proven in the industry with guarantees on system availability, superior production rates, and product purity.
Chemical Salts Experience
Sodium chloride (NaCl) |
Potassium chloride (KCl) |
Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) |
Sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) |
Lithium chloride (LiCl) |
Sodium chlorate (NaClO3) |
Ammonium sulfate ((NH4)2SO4) |
Potassium sulfate (K2SO4) |
Calcium chloride (CaCl2) |
Potassium nitrate (KNO3) |
Ammonium molybdate ((NH4)2MoO4) |
Copper sulfate (CuSO4) |
Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) |
Sodium metabisulfate (Na2S2O5) |
Ammonium metavanadate (NH4VO3) |
Total Project Capabilities
Veolia has successfully designed and built several of the world's largest salt facilities on a full turnkey basis. All aspects of the project from analytical and pilot-testing to effective project management account for the expert execution and successful commercial operation of installations worldwide.
Case Studies
How to produce high-purity sodium chloride for chlor alkali production?
Veolia Water Technologies was selected to supply the salt purification system for the new production facility at Pure Salt Baytown.
Shintech, Inc. | Turnkey Salt Purification & Caustic Concentration System
Veolia was selected to provide the salt purification plant and caustic soda evaporation system for Shintech's new Plaquemine facility, supplied in a design-build basis.
Dominion Salt | Multiple-effect Salt Crystallizer Expansion
Dominion Salt once again contracted Veolia Water Technologies to upgrade the salt plant. Dominion Salt would increase capacity from 5.2 tonnes per hour to 9.6 tonnes per hour production.