Brine Water Treatment

Brine Water Treatment

The Problem & Promise 

Epiphany Environmental will change the wastewater-treatment industry as we know it for the Dairy Industry. They have developed, and patented, a distillation process using a process known as Mechanical Vapor Recompression, these mini-plants purify brine water effluent at rates up to 40,000 GPD using the lowest energy consumption in the industry. In fact, this technology can be deployed across a multitude of industry applications - from oil and gas to agriculture and mining.  

How many years do you expect to be worrying about thousands of barrels of high salt water? If you are a cheese producer, for how many generations has brine dogged your operations? How many staff hours are devoted to it? You must monitor and measure the water, collect it, transport it and dispose of it. Or you could just install a plant from Epiphany and hook it up to your system. 

Scalable & Nimble

Epiphany’s treatment plants can be assembled and shipped to the site location in a matter of weeks instead of years, reducing both construction times and transportation costs. They achieve zero liquid discharge (ZLD), removing any type of contaminant (metals, salt, sediment). They can be positioned on small pads at your facility and connected to the cloud for remote diagnostics with Epiphany. 

An Environmental Epiphany

Nobody wants to worry about soil remediation from lagoons, or regulatory compliance with state and federal guidelines. Epiphany eliminates the issue with distributed treatment plants that reduce water waste up to a factor of 10:1. What’s left gets carted off by your normal refuse collector—the risk is not just mitigated, it’s eliminated. The water can be reused by your commercial and industrial operation permanently. 

Get to Know the ECV25 and ECV250

The flagship plants ECV25 and ECV250 plants are cheaper, more efficient, and easier to deploy than any comparable vapor recompression technology on the market. They both have the same mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) process and rigorous design philosophy. Both were designed from the ground up for compactness, rapid scale-up, mass manufacture, quick deployment, and reliable operation. Both are built largely from standardized, off-the-shelf components with non-exotic materials. And both employ state-of-the-art software controls with remote data logging and built-in safety measures that allow the user to control them from anywhere. Each has been optimized for different water volumes and applications, making it easier to select the ideal treatment solution.
  • Both can distill water from up to 30% total dissolved solids (TDS) to less than 0.02% TDS—as clean as or cleaner than tap water.
  • Both operate at 95% of theoretical efficiency, higher than any other affordable MVR technology available today. 
  • Because our solutions are flexible with input water quality, they can be used regardless of what the polluted water or soil (which is washed with water) contains. 
  • Output water can either be discharged, sent to standard municipal wastewater treatment, or reused infinitely in the cleaning process.

Tried & Tested

Among many pilot projects, Epiphany built, deployed, and operated seven ECV25 units for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to treat road saltwater waste generated from truck maintenance facilities across the state. Epiphany has also built and delivered plants for clients in complex oil and gas projects around the country. 

QCS Opportunity

Our goal is to market this equipment to all cheese makers in QCS and provide you with a priority position in machine procurement.
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Understanding Water Risk


Gone are the days when your corporate concerns end at your property’s fence. Companies everywhere are learning that natural-resource changes even hundreds of miles away can impact operations quarter after quarter. Disruptions to water supply and quality in food and agriculture endanger not just your company’s performance, but also can harm your customers if they don’t have access to milk, eggs, cheese and other staples. You see these realities in your supply chain, deliveries, access to raw materials, and so much more.


As a corporate partner in your community, you have the ability to make positive changes in your operations that benefit your performance and make your company sustainable into the future. IEG is your partner in this effort. We follow proven sustainability guidelines because we know that the natural resource “supply chain” is fragile and finite. According to Ceres in its groundbreaking report, Feeding Ourselves Thirsty, food and agriculture “uses more than 70% of the world’s fresh water to grow crops, feed livestock and process ingredients”—so the industry sees first when fresh water sources are threatened. In addition, “The U.N. projects that global demand for water will increase by 20-30% by 2050 in order to meet the food needs of a projected population of 9.8 billion.” (source here) 


Ceres has pioneered corporate sustainability practices with regard to natural-resource management. It studies water risk at the regional, national, and global level. Many global companies have participated in studies to analyze their impact on water supplies and basins. IEG supports this effort and can help you improve your corporate decision-making. These are not punitive changes, they are efficiency improvements and new technologies paired with monitoring and a higher-level corporate awareness. We are excited about the new Epiphany solutions for this reason: They are instrumental in improving outcomes with regard to water risk, environmental mitigation and cost.

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