For the greater good: Why business decisions must factor in people and the planet

If there’s one thing that’s common to all of mankind, it’s the earth.

Lady Bird Johnson famously said, “The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”

But our world is no longer what it once was.

Climate change – once scoffed at as a conspiracy theory – is creating havoc like never before. It means devastating impacts such as disappearing glaciers, melting ice caps, spread of fires, unseasonal rainfall, more intense storms, and extreme heat waves.

We have no other option but to embrace sustainability as a way of life. Governments, organisations, and businesses have realised that sustainability needs a place at all tables, and that we must all move from incremental improvements to bolder methodologies that make a net positive impact. Only this can ensure that we leave the world a better place than one that we came in.

Across the world, sustainable businesses consider a range of environmental, economic, and social factors when making business decisions.

The seven global challenges that we need to work around include Food, Forests, Water, Energy, Climate, the Ocean, and Cities.  Businesses need to monitor the impact of their operations to ensure that their race for short-term profits doesn’t turn into long-term liabilities.

Things are changing slowly. Across the world, companies big and small are working to do business that’s good for the environment, community, and society.

And it’s high time!

Mumbai, India-based engineering company Diva Envitec believes what Thomas Fuller famously said: “We will never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

Diva Envitec Offerings

Diva Envitec offers a wide range of process improvement technologies for industry, and our philosophy is rooted in a steady transition to renewable energy and materials. We help our customers save millions of dollars through green, energy-efficient processes and product recovery from waste streams.

The industry is now focusing on water extraction and utilisation, waste engineering, and the recovery and recycling of secondary raw materials. And it’s here that we come in – to create change that has a cascading effect over time.

We know that small steps can turn into bigger ones and inspire others to make small changes that lead to a big impact.

Diva Envitec recently participated in IFAT, a leading environmental technology trade fair that helps network with key industry players, innovators, and business partners worldwide.

IFAT India focuses on raging environmental concerns such as sewage systems, wastewater treatment, sustainable ways of water supply, holistic, solid waste management and recycling, and more.

IFAT has created an interdisciplinary network with a global reach and saw representation from the Netherlands, Turkey, China, Norway, and Germany. The conferences at the 2022 conference were meaningful, though more industry-specific seminars and lectures could have been planned.

The idea of IFAT and participating companies is one: to create holistic solutions for the many pressing environmental issues and TOGETHER work towards making India cleaner, greener, and more sustainable.

Diva showcased its top technologies at the three-day exhibition:

• CHD-Ox - Technology for COD <60,000 mg/lt
• PHT-Ox - Technology for COD > 60,000 mg/lt
• SUPERCAV - Innovative system to reduce power cost in ETP - low maintenance aeration system
• RESONICS  - Defoaming and process improvement
• RESONICS - Descaling in evaporators
• MVR technology - Zero liquid discharge
• PROMEM - Nanofiltration and ceramic membranes for colour removal in the dye industry and COD removal

Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR)

I see that MVR as a technology is picking up once again. Mechanical Vapor Recompression (MVR) technology, which was used by Dupont in their plants when Atlas Copco supplied the first MVR in 1970s, is known to be an energy-saving evaporative concentration technology, which reduces evaporation energy use by 90% or more.

The technology uses energy recovered from the condensate to create a pure liquid distillate and a concentrated product/waste.

Now, with steam costs rising, many companies are relooking at MVR technology. #ifatindia2022 saw the presence of many suppliers, but numerous prospective customers visited us with complaints about this technology.

I feel the key to the success of MVR technology is equalising feed parameters, which can be a challenge in multi-product API plants. This means the performance of the MVR suffers. The boiling point elevation and the process fluid properties can also make running the MVR a nightmare due to foaming issues.

Diva Envitec Pvt Ltd takes a holistic approach and has hybrid technologies to pre-treat the feed before sending it to the MVR. We have tie-ups with China and Turkey to supply MVR from the 1000 kg/hour evaporation to more than 10,000 kg/hour. In smaller capacities, we supply lobe-type compressors; in larger ones, we offer the centrifugal type.

The innovations at Diva Envitec are game-changers, but India is a country that is typically used to playing the game as it always has. But this is no time to stick to the tried-and-tested traditional path; it’s the time to embrace innovative new solutions. And Diva Envitec is working to convince  customers on this.

#IFAT also helped us connect with like-minded people and stakeholders. We signed MOUs and NDAs with 15 companies in 3 days, and work has started on developing bespoke processes at our R&D unit in Vasai near Mumbai.

We also won the Marine Installation, which will be installed at our site. Spreading the message of saving our water bodies from plastic waste.

Only a sustainable present can take us to a brighter future, and Team Diva Envitec is working overtime to meet the complex challenges and myriad problems that customers brought to us at #IFAT2022.

Innovative technology is the way ahead, and we are firing on all cylinders as we work harder than ever before.

We will continue to live by the idea that all “plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man”.

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