Your slurry circuit is leaking water and money on every pass.
Process and slurry water carries a brutal combination — suspended solids and a dissolved load of 5,000–50,000 mg/L TDS. Thicken it, recycle the overflow, and the salts just build until the plant chokes. Desalus funds, builds, owns and operates the treatment; you simply buy back clean water at an attractive rate per 1,000 gallons for your circuit. The recovered salts and metals become farm-grade fertilizer Desalus markets — which is what keeps your water price low. No brine, no reject stream, no salinity creep, no capital.
Recycling the overflow doesn't remove the salt. It concentrates it.
Thickeners and clarifiers send the solids to tailings and the overflow back to the plant — but the dissolved load has nowhere to go. Every pass through the circuit drives TDS higher. Eventually salinity attacks reagent performance, scales pipework, corrodes equipment and forces you to bleed water out and buy makeup back in. You're paying twice: once for fresh water, once to dispose of the salty bleed.
- Salinity creep, not a one-off — recycled process water concentrates dissolved salts until recovery, flotation and leach chemistry all degrade.
- Makeup water is a hard cost — every cubic metre bled to control TDS is fresh water bought, pumped and permitted to replace.
- The combined burden defeats single-stage kit — suspended solids foul membranes while the dissolved load strands conventional desalination.
What recycling without desalting really does to the circuit
Recycling alone just moves salt around. Desalus removes it — returning clean water and saleable product instead.
Stop bleeding water and buying it back. Close the loop.
Desalus is a full water-treatment service engineered for the combined suspended-solids and dissolved-salt burden of slurry and process water — recovering nearly all of it as clean water for the circuit and turning the salts others discard into product.
99%+ recovery, zero brine
Recover almost all of your process water back into the plant circuit and eliminate the reject stream entirely. No brine pond, no salty bleed, no makeup deficit.
Lower water cost, zero capital
No capital outlay and no operating burden. Desalus funds, builds and runs everything — you pay only for clean water delivered to your circuit, at an attractive rate per 1,000 gallons that beats your current all-in cost. The recovered salts and metals become farm-grade fertilizer Desalus sells, keeping your water price low.
Stable circuit, stable chemistry
Hold TDS where your flotation, leach and reagent chemistry want it. No salinity drift, no scaling surprises, no off-spec bleed to permit.
Built for 5k–50k mg/L
Purpose-engineered for the high-TDS process-water band where membrane plants foul and standard desalination simply stalls.
Slashes makeup water demand
Clean water returns to the circuit, so you draw far less fresh makeup from the watershed — easing both cost and abstraction pressure.
Service, not just steel
Desalus delivers treatment as an engineered, operated service tuned to your slurry chemistry, solids load and flow — not a skid you have to run.
Right in the band where recycled process water gets stuck
From freshly thickened overflow to circuits that have concentrated over many passes, Desalus is designed for 5,000–50,000 mg/L total dissolved solids — exactly the range process water reaches before salinity forces a bleed.
The highlighted band is the Desalus sweet spot — where recycled slurry and process water strand conventional treatment today.
Desalus vs. recycle-and-bleed vs. evaporation
The same process water, three very different outcomes.
| Outcome | Desalus | Recycle & bleed | Evaporation ponds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water recovery | 99%+ | Partial — salty bleed lost | Low — lost to air |
| Residual waste stream | None | Saline bleed to dispose | Permanent pond |
| Circuit salinity control | Held stable | Creeps upward | Unmanaged |
| Makeup water demand | Minimal — ZLD | High | High |
| Capital you outlay | None — Desalus owns & operates | You fund & build | You fund & build |
| What you pay for | Clean water, per 1,000 gal | Makeup + bleed disposal | Disposal, forever |
| Your all-in water cost | Lowest & predictable | Highest | High |
From slurry report to clean water in four steps.
It starts with your chemistry. Send Desalus a full-panel water quality, solids and volume report for your process or slurry stream, and you'll get a site-specific model of recovery, your clean-water rate per 1,000 gallons, and the makeup and disposal costs you avoid.
Start with your water reportShare your full-panel report
Send process-water chemistry — TDS, salts, metals, suspended solids — and flow data through the Desalus contact form. The richer the panel, the sharper the model.
Get a site-specific model
Desalus quantifies recovery, your clean-water rate per 1,000 gallons, and the makeup water, salinity-control and capital costs you avoid for your exact slurry stream.
Desalus builds & operates it
Desalus capitalizes, installs and runs the KNeW Process, Zix-Zak ion exchange and No-Briner systems around your circuit's solids load and chemistry — no capex or operating burden for you.
Buy back clean water, waste-free
You purchase clean water at your agreed rate per 1,000 gallons and it flows straight back into the plant. Brine never exists, salinity creep stops, and the recovered salts become fertilizer Desalus markets — which is how your water price stays low.
Raise profit. Cut makeup water. Stabilize the plant.
The award-winning systems behind the Desalus service turn your dirtiest, saltiest process water into your most reliable source of clean circuit water — and a saleable product.
What plant water managers ask first
Can Desalus handle slurry water carrying both solids and dissolved salts?
Yes. Desalus is purpose-built for the combined burden of process and slurry water — suspended solids alongside a dissolved load of salts and metals in the 5,000–50,000 mg/L TDS range. It returns 99%+ of the water clean enough to go straight back into the plant circuit, while recovering the dissolved load as farm-grade fertilizer.
How does the Desalus model work — what do I actually pay?
Desalus capitalizes, builds, owns, operates and maintains the facility on your circuit. You don't buy equipment or run anything — you simply purchase the clean water Desalus returns to the plant, at an attractive rate per 1,000 gallons. Because Desalus recovers and sells the resulting fertilizer, we can price your water below conventional makeup-and-bleed economics while leaving zero waste. The fertilizer revenue is Desalus'; your benefit is cheaper water and no liability.
What happens to the salts and metals?
They become product, not waste. The dissolved load that drives salinity creep is recovered as farm-grade fertilizer. There is no saline bleed to dispose of and no brine reject — true zero-liquid-discharge on your circuit.
How much makeup water can this actually save?
Because nearly all of your process water is recovered and returned, fresh makeup draw drops dramatically — you stop bleeding salty water out and buying clean water back in. The exact saving is quantified in your site-specific model, alongside your clean-water rate per 1,000 gallons and avoided disposal cost.
How do I find out what my process water is worth?
Send a full-panel water analysis, solids data and your flow volumes through the contact form on desalus.com. You'll receive a site-specific model of recovery, your clean-water rate per 1,000 gallons, and the makeup, disposal and capital costs you avoid — before any commitment.
See what your slurry and process water is really worth.
Send Desalus a full-panel water quality, solids and volume report for your process or slurry stream and get site-specific insight into the clean water — and the savings — waiting in the circuit you already run.
No obligation. The report drives a site-specific model of recovery, your water rate per 1,000 gallons, and the costs you avoid.
- Quantified water recovery for your exact slurry chemistry
- Your attractive clean-water rate per 1,000 gallons
- Avoided makeup water, bleed disposal and salinity-control cost
- Zero capital outlay — Desalus funds, builds & operates it all