We develop and produce innovative ultrafiltration technology used in the treatment of drinking water, process water, waste water and sea water. Our customers are system integrators which incorporate our ultrafiltration modules and/or pre-assembled rack systems within the overall process flow of their water treatment plants. We are a global company that provides consulting services, high-quality products and specialist support to customers worldwide.
We have completed numerous reference projects worldwide which have confirmed the outstanding performance and durability of our top-quality, German-made products and solutions.
Take advantage of our years of experience and industry expertise and allow our team of ultrafiltration experts to assist you in planning your treatment facility and finding the best solutions to meet your needs.
Ultrafiltration is the perfect method for producing drinking water from surface water, groundwater and spring water.
In the past, sand filtration was the standard method of water treatment. Similar to the natural water cycle, in which water flows through layers of rock and sand, this technique involved trickling the water through beds of sand in order to clean it.
Ultrafiltration is superior to sand filtration thanks to its consistently high levels of quality and purity
Nowadays drinking water is produced using ultra filtration technology with nanoscale membranes. Thanks to their extremely small pore size, our Multibore® membranes reliably intercept not only particles but also microorganisms such as bacteria and even viruses, thereby providing a dependable source of clean water. This method is more reliable and requires considerably less space than sand filtration. It is simple to operate and can easily be incorporated in complex water treatment plants as either an upstream or downstream stage.
The biggest advantage of ultrafiltration is that the filtered water always maintains consistently high levels of quality and purity regardless of the level of contamination of the raw water. The same cannot be said of sand filtration: Heavy rainfall, floods or contaminants in the water supply can mean that the sand is no longer capable of retaining all the dirt particles. In contrast, ultrafiltration is not dependent on external factors – which means it can provide consistently high water quality.
Ease of operation is another major benefit. Ultrafiltration systems can be operated fully automatically with an integrated control unit running the entire ultrafiltration process including the filtration, cleaning and backwash stages.
Benefits of inge® UF for drinking water treatment:
Certification and Approval
The quality of the products and services provided by inge® has been fully certified. Our products have been granted full approval in the core markets of the USA, Europe and China and comply with all current regulations on drinking water treatment in the various different regions. Comprehensive tests and procedures are undertaken by independent institutes to check that the membranes and modules produced by inge® achieve the stated filtration performance while posing no risk to people's health. The technologies supplied by inge® therefore provide maximum reliability combined with optimum, assured protection.
Water with specific properties: engineered water for industrial use
Water is not always as simple as it seems. It is often required to have – or specifically not to have – very specific properties, especially when it comes to industrial applications. The properties of water can be deliberately modified to meet the technological requirements of various industrial processes. For example, solids can be removed from the water using methods such as de-icing, softening and desalination, other agents can be added, or the water's parameters, such as its pH value, can be modified.
The fact is that some components of water can cause significant damage to systems and processes in industrial applications if the potential risks are not taken into account. For example, cooling water must be modified so that it is suitable for use in refrigeration units, while the water for steam turbines must be completely desalinated to prevent corrosion from damaging the boiler.
Ultrafiltration is not only used in water treatment, but also in many other industrial treatment and separating processes. UF is a highly effective substitute for sand filtration in these applications, producing outstanding water quality and consistently high filtrate quality regardless of variations in the quality of the raw water.
Benefits of inge® ultrafiltration for process water treatment:
Wastewater is water that has become contaminated through use. It includes household sewage, municipal wastewater, industrial effluent, collected rainwater and surface runoff, i.e. water that flows off paved surfaces. Wastewater treatment is generally carried out in three to four stages in centrally located sewage works. The cleaning stages typically include physical, biological and chemical processes. To ensure that the water that leaves the sewage works is genuinely clean, however, a further stage is required to remove pathogenic germs and viruses. This is where ultrafiltration technology can be used to purify the wastewater without requiring any additional chemical treatment.
Ultrafiltration not only enables the removal of specific products from complex material streams, it also makes it possible to separate other useful by-products and "pure" water. Reuse concepts can then be applied to recycle these materials within the production process.
Benefits of inge® UF for wastewater treatment:
For decades, drinking water and water for domestic use have been obtained through traditional thermal methods of seawater desalination: The sea water is heated until it reaches boiling point and evaporates, at which point the hot steam is cooled and condensed into fresh water. However, this process has some major disadvantages, notably the fact that it uses such large amounts of energy. Despite the use of various energy recovery technologies, it is often not financially viable – especially in countries that lack energy resources.
Ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis
The best alternative for future applications is a combination of ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis. The initial cleaning of the seawater is performed efficiently by ultrafiltration, while the actual desalination of the water is achieved through reverse osmosis.
Compared to conventional treatment technologies such as sand filtration, UF technology produces outstanding water quality and consistently high filtrate quality, regardless of any changes in raw water properties due to seasonal variations (storms, algae bloom, etc.) or other factors.
Benefits of inge® ultrafiltration for sea water treatment:
Ultrafiltration is the perfect method for producing drinking water from surface water, groundwater and spring water.
In the past, sand filtration was the standard method of water treatment. Similar to the natural water cycle, in which water flows through layers of rock and sand, this technique involved trickling the water through beds of sand in order to clean it.
Ultrafiltration is superior to sand filtration thanks to its consistently high levels of quality and purity
Nowadays drinking water is produced using ultra filtration technology with nanoscale membranes. Thanks to their extremely small pore size, our Multibore® membranes reliably intercept not only particles but also microorganisms such as bacteria and even viruses, thereby providing a dependable source of clean water. This method is more reliable and requires considerably less space than sand filtration. It is simple to operate and can easily be incorporated in complex water treatment plants as either an upstream or downstream stage.
The biggest advantage of ultrafiltration is that the filtered water always maintains consistently high levels of quality and purity regardless of the level of contamination of the raw water. The same cannot be said of sand filtration: Heavy rainfall, floods or contaminants in the water supply can mean that the sand is no longer capable of retaining all the dirt particles. In contrast, ultrafiltration is not dependent on external factors – which means it can provide consistently high water quality.
Ease of operation is another major benefit. Ultrafiltration systems can be operated fully automatically with an integrated control unit running the entire ultrafiltration process including the filtration, cleaning and backwash stages.
Benefits of inge® UF for drinking water treatment:
Certification and Approval
The quality of the products and services provided by inge® has been fully certified. Our products have been granted full approval in the core markets of the USA, Europe and China and comply with all current regulations on drinking water treatment in the various different regions. Comprehensive tests and procedures are undertaken by independent institutes to check that the membranes and modules produced by inge® achieve the stated filtration performance while posing no risk to people's health. The technologies supplied by inge® therefore provide maximum reliability combined with optimum, assured protection.
Water with specific properties: engineered water for industrial use
Water is not always as simple as it seems. It is often required to have – or specifically not to have – very specific properties, especially when it comes to industrial applications. The properties of water can be deliberately modified to meet the technological requirements of various industrial processes. For example, solids can be removed from the water using methods such as de-icing, softening and desalination, other agents can be added, or the water's parameters, such as its pH value, can be modified.
The fact is that some components of water can cause significant damage to systems and processes in industrial applications if the potential risks are not taken into account. For example, cooling water must be modified so that it is suitable for use in refrigeration units, while the water for steam turbines must be completely desalinated to prevent corrosion from damaging the boiler.
Ultrafiltration is not only used in water treatment, but also in many other industrial treatment and separating processes. UF is a highly effective substitute for sand filtration in these applications, producing outstanding water quality and consistently high filtrate quality regardless of variations in the quality of the raw water.
Benefits of inge® ultrafiltration for process water treatment:
Wastewater is water that has become contaminated through use. It includes household sewage, municipal wastewater, industrial effluent, collected rainwater and surface runoff, i.e. water that flows off paved surfaces. Wastewater treatment is generally carried out in three to four stages in centrally located sewage works. The cleaning stages typically include physical, biological and chemical processes. To ensure that the water that leaves the sewage works is genuinely clean, however, a further stage is required to remove pathogenic germs and viruses. This is where ultrafiltration technology can be used to purify the wastewater without requiring any additional chemical treatment.
Ultrafiltration not only enables the removal of specific products from complex material streams, it also makes it possible to separate other useful by-products and "pure" water. Reuse concepts can then be applied to recycle these materials within the production process.
Benefits of inge® UF for wastewater treatment:
For decades, drinking water and water for domestic use have been obtained through traditional thermal methods of seawater desalination: The sea water is heated until it reaches boiling point and evaporates, at which point the hot steam is cooled and condensed into fresh water. However, this process has some major disadvantages, notably the fact that it uses such large amounts of energy. Despite the use of various energy recovery technologies, it is often not financially viable – especially in countries that lack energy resources.
Ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis
The best alternative for future applications is a combination of ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis. The initial cleaning of the seawater is performed efficiently by ultrafiltration, while the actual desalination of the water is achieved through reverse osmosis.
Compared to conventional treatment technologies such as sand filtration, UF technology produces outstanding water quality and consistently high filtrate quality, regardless of any changes in raw water properties due to seasonal variations (storms, algae bloom, etc.) or other factors.
Benefits of inge® ultrafiltration for sea water treatment:
inge GmbH was founded in the year 2000 and is headquartered in the town of Greifenberg near Munich in Bavaria. Its German headquarters houses all the company's main operations including development, production, marketing and sales.
All products are based on the Multibore® membranes, an in-to-out filtration technology, developed and produced in Germany.
The range of products incudes highly-efficient ultrafiltration modules and cost-effective, space-saving rack designs as the core component of water treatment plants, rounded off with outstanding technical support for our customers.
We have set ourselves the goal of preserving our planet's precious water resources and ensuring supplies of clean water in the future through the development of innovative new concepts. Our systems purify water by reliably removing bacteria, viruses, particles and suspended solids.
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Ultrafiltration is the perfect substitute for sand filtration, providing significantly higher filtrate quality even in cases where the quality of the feedwater varies. Reliability and efficiency are our key priorities.
A hydrodynamically optimized solution that makes the best use of the available space when installing dizzer® modules.
Ultrafiltration modules for custom rack solutions in an open platform configuration.
Cartridge type ultrafiltration modules for streamlined replacement of individual membrane filtration elements.
Cartridge type ultrafiltration modules for small-scale applications, e.g. point-of-use and point-of-entry.
A dedicated technical sales department that provides a wide range of UF-related services.
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