As part of its arsenic treatment needs, Micr’Eau Chile imports and stocks several dozen tons of GEH filter media in Santiago and northern Chile to serve its mining and water concession customers.
This GEH product is required for the treatment of arsenic-contaminated drinking water, but also for industrial water and contaminated soil.
Micr’Eau has been a leader in these sectors in France and Chile for over a decade.
At the end of 2022, the Micr’Eau group delivered and installed a turnkey package including a 1500 Nm3/h Hofstetter flare and a biogas measuring container (by Endress Hauser) on the Yesca landfill (Rancagua region near Santiago de Chile) for the Veolia Chile group, International leader in urban solid waste management.
You can visit the project in 3D version here and discover each component of our supply. Micr’Eau worked on this project with its Chilean subsidiary which carried out the local part (civil engineering, electricity, assembly of skid flaring and measurement) in less than 5 months.
For 20 years, Micr’Eau has been building and installing gasometers and biogas flares (more than 100 references in France and internationally).
With this experience, it is also at the head of about twenty audit, technical assistance, maintenance of flaring and biogas storage units in France, Benelux and South America with the largest companies in the world: SIAAP in Paris, AySA in Buenos Aires but also with major operators in the world of water and waste such as Veolia, Suez, Vinci, Urbaser.
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The Micr’Eau group has experience in more than one hundred arsenic treatment plant construction and maintenance sites carried out over the past fifteen years in France, Europe and South America.
We have deployed the Arsepur process adsorption filtration to capture arsenic using filter media such as GEH or Bayoxide, but also have developed service activities around the evacuation of saturated media and the installation of new media in France as in Chile with major accounts such as Saur, the SDEA or Aguas Andinas.
We are also available to smaller entities (communities) through our local networks of installers and regional partners. Finally, we ensure the supply of other filter media: activated alumina, mangagran and pyrolox for the treatment of fluorine, iron and manganese from our stocks in the Paris region and northern Chile.
In 2022, we supplied more than 300 T of media to our ten regular customers in drinking water, mineral water or industry.
The Micr’Eau group has two subsidiaries in Chile, one linked to the construction of its drinking water and biogas units, Micr’Eau-AEC, and a second company, ABM, linked to services and in particular to mining companies.
As part of these consulting and support missions, ABM is currently carrying out an audit for the Canadian company Teck, copper producer on the Quebrada Blanca 2 site at 4500 m altitude in northern Chile (near the Bolivian border) to improve the operation and maintenance of the drinking water treatment unit supplying the camp of more than 5000 miners.
Other studies and technical and logistical support projects are being set up, in particular with the companies Cobre y Metales (catodo verde project) and the lithium group SQM near Antofagasta.
Micr’Eau has just been labeled within the Axelera competitiveness pole, one of the largest in France (based in Lyon); it brings together several hundred companies (large groups, mid-caps and SMEs) whose activities are chemicals and the environment as well as the desire to expand internationally.
Our ambition by joining this cluster is to promote the development of our biogas activities in France and internationally, particularly in the field of gas treatment from landfills.
Through the CH4 booster technology development project (enrichment of landfill biogas with CH4), Micr’Eau applied for an Inov 10 program funded by BPI and Ademe, supported by Axelera’s technological experts, including IFP ENR and Suez.