Integrated water and resource recovery development

From complex water streams to useful resources.

Brivalta develops and integrates modular process configurations for complex saline and industrial waters. Each configuration begins with real stream data and may combine treatment, heat recovery, selective resource recovery and an improved water pathway. Magnesium hydroxide is the first product pathway under development.

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REAL STREAM DATASITE-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATIONSTAGED DEVELOPMENT

THE CHALLENGE

Complex water is often managed as a cost. It may also contain recoverable value.

Mine water, industrial wastewater, desalination brine and geothermal fluids can combine salinity, metals, scaling risk, residual heat and demanding discharge or reinjection requirements. A credible solution must begin with the actual stream—not with a fixed process or a predetermined product list.

MODULAR PROCESS ARCHITECTURE

One stream. One site-specific configuration.

Optional pathways are selected only where the stream, operating need and economics justify them.

01 · INPUTReal streamSource · Site context · Operating need

02 · BASISCharacteriseChemistry · Flow · Temperature · Variability

03 · REQUIREMENTTreatment requirementsPretreatment · Contaminant removal · Process protection

OPTIONAL · HEATHeat pathwayProfile · User · Temperature level · CAPEX/OPEX

OPTIONAL · RESOURCESResource pathwayMagnesium first · Other products as future stream-specific options

REQUIREMENT-LED · WATERWater pathwayReuse · Discharge · Reinjection · Further treatment

05 · INTEGRATIONSite-specific integrated configurationInterfaces · Balances · Residuals · Safety · Economics

06 · DEVELOPMENT GATESLaboratory → pilot → demonstrationFuture commercial deployment only when stage criteria are met

The configuration depends on the actual stream and operating requirement. Not every project includes heat recovery, resource recovery or water reuse, and each development stage proceeds only when the evidence supports it.

POTENTIAL VALUE PATHWAYS

One stream. Several possible outcomes.

Depending on feed chemistry, flow, temperature, site constraints and customer needs, a project may create value through treatment performance, magnesium recovery, useful heat, lower residual-waste burden or an improved route for water reuse, discharge or reinjection. Each pathway must earn its place in the process through testing and economics.

Water treatment

Define and develop the treatment steps around the operating requirement.

Resource recovery

Develop selective resource recovery, with magnesium as the first product pathway.

Useful heat

Assess and integrate established heat-recovery technologies where justified.

Water pathway

Define a route for reuse, discharge, reinjection or further treatment.

APPLICATION AREAS

Start with the stream, then develop the configuration.

Brivalta is developing its approach for mine waters, industrial waters and effluents, desalination brines, geothermal fluids and other saline water streams. Each application is developed against the actual feed, operating requirement and site economics.

01Mine waterTreatment, heat and resource pathways around a managed water asset.02Industrial waterPotential value recovery alongside improved treatment performance.03Desalination brinesResource recovery developed within desalination-system constraints.04Geothermal fluidsMineral recovery considered around heat use and reinjection.05Other saline streamsOpportunities developed from their own data and operating need.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENT FOCUS

Magnesium recovery is the starting point.

Brivalta's most developed product pathway is the selective recovery of magnesium, initially as magnesium hydroxide. Current work is focused on feedstock selection, laboratory validation, product quality, mass balance, customer requirements and site-specific economics. Commercial production has not yet begun.

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WORK WITH BRIVALTA

Bring a real stream and a defined operating challenge.

Brivalta is seeking operators and stream owners able to provide data, samples and site context, together with laboratories, engineering partners and product users able to support validation and future pilot development.

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START A CONVERSATION

Have a complex water or brine stream?

Bring available stream data, sample access and a defined operating challenge. Brivalta can help shape a credible next development stage.

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