www.axinewater.com Customer Pain Point A multinational electronics manufacturer operates a facility located in California that uses an isopropyl alcohol-based (IPA) solvent in a final manufacturing step. IPA vapors from the process are removed using a scrubber. The scrubber blowdown is an aqueous waste with an IPA concentration of ~3% (70,000 – 80,000 mg/L COD) that cannot be reused on-site or discharged to the sewer because the flash point of the waste stream is below 140 degrees F. As a result, the IPA wastewater was trucked off-site to an incineration facility located several hundred miles from the facility. Off-site trucking and incineration is expensive, subject to cost escalation, higher risk and energy intensive. The customer’s goal was to treat the wastewater on-site b

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