en.Wedoany.com Reported - DuPont has announced the latest upgrade to its Water Treatment Application Value Engine (WAVE PRO), an online modeling tool that now integrates multi-technology design for ultrafiltration, ion exchange resins, reverse osmosis, and nanofiltration on a single comprehensive platform.
The upgraded WAVE PRO platform supports various water treatment applications, including drinking water, industrial water, wastewater, and seawater desalination. Sylvia Insogna, Digital Lead for DuPont Water Solutions, stated that by integrating ultrafiltration, ion exchange resins, reverse osmosis, and nanofiltration on the same platform, WAVE PRO can provide more accurate data-driven system designs, optimize membrane and energy usage, extend asset life, and help customers reduce the environmental footprint of water treatment while achieving operational and financial goals.
The tool's integrated modeling approach aims to address common challenges in water treatment design, including reducing the time spent running separate simulations and minimizing manual data entry errors. It captures interdependencies between technologies that affect system performance, enabling more realistic predictions and cost-effective designs. For example, integrated simulations can show how upstream ultrafiltration improves downstream reverse osmosis performance and reduces design constraints.
WAVE PRO also offers expanded design flexibility for more complex systems. Integrated ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis modeling supports better pretreatment and high-performance desalination decisions early in the design phase. More advanced multi-process configurations can handle recirculation flows and closed-loop conditions, which are difficult to accurately simulate with single-technology tools, helping users design more versatile and reliable systems from the outset.
The tool seamlessly integrates multiple technologies from DuPont Water Solutions, including DuPont IntegraTec and DuPont Inge ultrafiltration modules, DuPont AmberLite ion exchange resins, and FilmTec reverse osmosis and nanofiltration elements. By using a broader product portfolio on a single platform, users can enhance design confidence across a wider range of municipal and industrial applications.
WAVE PRO is a web-based platform that supports secure access from computers or tablets via single sign-on, compatible with Microsoft Windows and iOS. The platform supports collaboration features, allowing multiple users to work on the same project file, securely share reports, and enhance cross-functional coordination throughout the design process.
The tool is free to use and can be accessed through DuPont Water Solutions' WaterApp, which includes a range of digital tools. The direct login address is: http://wavepro.dupont.com
DuPont Water Solutions' technology helps purify over 50 million gallons of water per minute in 112 countries worldwide. DuPont offers a broad portfolio of membranes, resins, and complete systems to address challenges faced by municipal water treatment, seawater desalination plants, and industrial water users, including the microelectronics industry. The team continues to innovate solutions to support growing global water and energy demands, including technologies for producing electricity, lithium, and green hydrogen.
