Rapid urbanisation has led to a significant increase in water utilisation, sewage generation and the need for water infrastructure projects to reduce consumption while managing water and waste water treatment better.
Ion Exchange assesses and develops innovative approaches to water and environment-related challenges. In addition to industries, it strongly focuses on offering water and wastewater treatment solutions to institutions, communities, municipalities and realty. The company undertakes developmental projects for drinking water supply schemes and distribution systems, sewage treatment and disposal, sea water intake and desalination, and solid waste management including waste to energy (WtE) projects, for the much-needed integration of energy and the environment. With over 50 decades of experience, Ion Exchange is a leader in industrial water management and now leads the change in water and waste infrastructure projects.
Ion Exchange’s water and environment management solutions extend beyond the industrial sector to hotels, spas, schools and colleges, hospitals, laboratories, railway and defense establishments, and residential and commercial establishments. Some of the solutions include providing drinking water and for use in kitchens and canteens, softened water for bathing and laundry, management of heating and cooling water circuits with speciality in chemical treatment programmes, swimming pool water filtration and disinfection, sewage treatment and recycling, comprehensive operation and maintenance (O&M) services, and contracts for operation, maintenance and supervision. The company’s Zero B range of home water purification solutions deliver products at every price point and category.
With increasing water scarcity, the realty sector seeks solutions that not only conserve water but also recycle it. To this end, the company offers systems that recycle water for use in applications such as toilet flushing, washing cars and gardening. These solutions ensure that residential complexes are always water efficient and water sufficient.
The company also reaches out to municipalities, public health engineering departments, water supply boards and sewerage boards for public water supply and sanitation projects. The decentralised community level systems for drinking water purification and sewage treatment/recycle such as INDION® Sequential Batch Reactors, INDION® Clarifiers, INDION® Disinfection systems, INDION® Packaged Sewage treatment plants (STPs), etc., are especially designed to meet the needs of communities and municipalities.
Some of Ion Exchange’s water and waste infrastructure projects are:
- 194 Million USD Integrated Water Supply Project – NWSBD, Sri Lanka: The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB), Sri Lanka is the national organisation responsible for the provision of safe drinking water and facilitating the provision of sanitation. Ion Exchange, is involved in setting up of new water treatment plants and rehabilitation of old plants, refurbishment of old intake, construction of reservoirs, transmission pipelines from reservoirs to tower and distribution pipelines from the towers to the identified villages.
- 30 MLD Sewage Treatment- Welspun- Anjar: The Welspun Group, one of India’s fastest growing conglomerates, has set up a unique source of fresh water for its textile plant in Anjar, Kutch. Ion Exchange partnered with Welspun to design, erect and commission a sewage treatment and recycling plant along with its undertaking its O&M. The 30 million litres per day (mld) STP is treating sewage generated from two cities – Anjar and Adipur – supplied by their respective local municipalities. This project has reduced the burden on local municipal authorities to treat the sewage generated by communities in the water-scarce Kutch region. The sewage generated from Anjar and Adipur is wisely reused as an alternative source of water. It is also a unique public-private partnership model for treating and reusing municipal sewage by the industry.
Sewage Treatment Plant, Welspun, Anjar
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- Waste to Energy Akshaya Patra Foundation- Telangana: Ion Exchange launched India’s first ANDICOS WtE plant in Hyderabad, Telangana. The ANDICOS® design integrates state-of-the-art technologies like INDION® IPC MBR and INDION® Advanced Bio-methanation process. INDION® IPC MBR treats raw sewage and produces purified water that can be reused. The sludge generated in the INDION® IPC MBR process is combined with organic kitchen waste generated in homes and communities to recover purified water, renewable energy and organic fertiliser. The first ANDICOS® WtE plant has been set up at Akshaya Patra in Hyderabad to treat waste water and organic waste from its new and fully automated kitchen. The ANDICOS® WtE plant has a capacity to treat approximately 1,000 kg of organic kitchen waste and 2-6 cubic metres of sewage sludge on a daily basis. It generates approximately 20 kWh of electricity along with 1.35 tonnes of rich organic fertiliser per day.
- Waste to Energy Akshaya Patra Foundation- Telangana: Ion Exchange launched India’s first ANDICOS WtE plant in Hyderabad, Telangana. The ANDICOS® design integrates state-of-the-art technologies like INDION® IPC MBR and INDION® Advanced Bio-methanation process. INDION® IPC MBR treats raw sewage and produces purified water that can be reused. The sludge generated in the INDION® IPC MBR process is combined with organic kitchen waste generated in homes and communities to recover purified water, renewable energy and organic fertiliser. The first ANDICOS® WtE plant has been set up at Akshaya Patra in Hyderabad to treat waste water and organic waste from its new and fully automated kitchen. The ANDICOS® WtE plant has a capacity to treat approximately 1,000 kg of organic kitchen waste and 2-6 cubic metres of sewage sludge on a daily basis. It generates approximately 20 kWh of electricity along with 1.35 tonnes of rich organic fertiliser per day.
ANDICOS® Waste to Energy Plant
- 50 MGD Operation & Maintenance
The Haldia Development Authority is a statutory authority constituted under the West Bengal (Planning and Development) Act, 1979. Ion Exchange, in a consortium with Shristi Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited and Swach Environment Private Limited, has bagged a project that includes the repair, upgradation, O&M and management of a 50 million gallons per day (mgd) water supply project at Haldia.
- Rural community solutions: Access to safe drinking water has been a serious problem for large populations in India. Contamination with arsenic, iron, fluoride, nitrate, brackishness and pathogens in ground water affect millions across rural India. Ion Exchange has developed cost-effective systems to treat contaminated water that are customised to centralised, decentralised and containerised solutions.
As part of the centralised solutions, Ion offers solutions like INDRO which help to obtain pure water from brackish water, INDION® hand pump and tube well attachments for removal of arsenic, iron, fluoride and nitrate from ground water, and INDION® Continuous Sand Filter and INDION® Lampak to treat highly contaminated surface water.
The company also has disaster management units which are containerised water treatment systems especially designed to cater to emergency requirements such as floods, droughts, cyclones and earthquakes.
Trolley- Mounted Disaster Management Unit (DMU)
Truck- Mounted Disaster Management Unit (DMU)