BioteQ is a water treatment company that applies innovative technologies and operating expertise to solve challenging water treatment problems, converting wastewater into a useful resource
Our commercially proven technologies treat wastewater contaminated with dissolved heavy metals and sulphate, producing saleable by-products and clean water that can be discharged safely to the environment.
BioteQ works with leading companies in the mining and metallurgy industry, oil sands, and power generation sector, providing water treatment solutions that:
- Selectively recover dissolved metals from acid mine drainage, leach solutions, process streams, and wastewater
- Remove sulphate from wastewater
BioteQ’s processes help customer to:
- Produce high quality treated water that can be sold, recycled, or discharged
- Comply with strict regulations
- Reduce the environmental liability associated with contaminated wastewater
- Eliminate the production of waste sludge
- Save money with lower life cycle costs compared to other water treatment processes
- Generate revenue from the sale of recovered metals and other by-products
BioteQ provides water treatment services tailored to suit customer needs, including process design and engineering, equipment procurement, plant construction, commissioning, operator training, and ongoing operations management.
The world’s leading mining companies, utility operators and regulators work with BioteQ, including Xstrata, Freeport-McMoRan, Aditya Birla, Jiangxi Copper, Capstone Mining, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. The company has built nine commercial water treatment plants with treatment capacity of up to 1,000 m3/hr at sites in Canada, the US, Australia, China, and Mexico.
BioteQ’s sites are operated to ISO 14001 standards for environmental compliance, and the company provides a process guarantee. In 2009, BioteQ’s plants operated at 98% availability, removed over 2.2 million pounds of metal contaminants from the environment, and treated 7.25 billion litres of water, meeting strict quality standards for water discharge or reuse and delivering reliable and consistent operating results.
Contact us for an analysis of your water treatment alternatives. www.bioteq.ca
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