Most wastewater treatment systems are built around a sequence of separate steps — chemical addition, settling, coagulation, filtration — each requiring its own equipment, controls, and attention. TCN consolidates that sequence into a single product. The complexity lives in the formulation. The process that reaches your facility is two steps — and it works with the filtration infrastructure you already have.
The simplicity of the one-bag process is deliberate. The complexity that would otherwise live in your treatment system — the multi-stage chemical additions, the dosing controls, the sequential process steps — has been engineered into the product itself. Your operation sees two steps. The formulation does the rest.
Each TCN filter aid is custom-formulated to the specific contaminant profile of your waste stream. The same two-step process handles soluble metals, fine particle suspensions, and colloidal dispersions — because the active chemistry in the bag is different for each application, even if the process your operators follow is identical.
The TCN filter aid — a single bag of custom-formulated product — is added to a batch tank containing your contaminated waste stream. The contents are mixed for ten minutes.
During this contact time, the active chemistry in the filter aid goes to work on your specific contaminants. What happens in the batch tank is specific to your waste stream and your formulation. What you see is ten minutes of mixing.
The treated water is transferred to your pressure filtration system. The filter removes the contaminant mass — now captured on the Rice Hull Ash carrier. TCN filter aid is compatible with most industrial pressure filtration systems.
For facilities starting from scratch, TCN recommends the Oberlin pressure filter. Its automated media cycling — triggered by differential pressure — keeps the filter running without operator intervention as the filter cake builds, making the entire two-step process autonomous.
Complex wastewater challenges typically attract complex treatment solutions — multiple chemical addition points, sequential process stages, separate equipment for each step, and the operational overhead to manage all of it. That complexity is often a symptom of solving a chemistry problem with process engineering.
TCN moves the complexity into the product. The result for your facility is a treatment process that is simpler to operate, simpler to troubleshoot, and simpler to maintain — without compromising on what the treatment actually achieves.
The process is the same for every customer. The formulation is never the same twice. Tell us about your waste stream — your contaminants, your process, what you've already tried — and we'll tell you honestly whether TCN can address it.