Transforming the Standard for Dissolved Solid Purification: Ion Exchange, Now a Steady-State Process

Ion exchange (IX) is a liquid purification process that has been in use industrially for nearly 100 years to capture dissolved solids; hundreds of applications exist in water treatment, chemical processing, and food & beverage production segments among others. While innovations in IX resins have been on-going, innovations in the IX process have been limited; and although automation has been introduced, the core operation of IX systems continues to rely on batch-style loading and regeneration of resins. The development of a new steady-state uninterrupted ion exchange process offers all the well-established benefits of a transition from batch to continuous processing – as well as specific technical and cost advantages in the purification realm. Hear about these benefits and the challenges of bringing such an innovative process change into a long-established operation and understand how steady state processing also expands the range of IX applications.