Patent ID: 8075779

Claim:
An integrated water treatment process comprising: treating a water solution, a low sugar concentration solution, and a high sugar concentration solution, wherein treating the water solution comprises: blending an influent water solution with a second membrane treated low brix stream into a first tank to form a first blended water stream; passing the first blended water stream through a first membrane to form a first membrane treated beverage makeup water and a first membrane treated contaminated solution; passing the first membrane treated contaminated solution to a sewer for disposal; and passing the first membrane treated beverage makeup water to an analyzer and/or an ozonator to form a substantially pure water solution, wherein treating the low sugar concentration solution comprises: passing a brix stream of less than about 0.3 brix through a second membrane to form at least a portion of the second membrane treated low brix stream and a second membrane treated contaminated solution; passing the at least a portion of the second membrane treated low brix stream to the first tank to blend with the influent water solution to form the first blended water stream; and passing the second membrane treated contaminated solution to the sewer for disposal, and wherein treating the high sugar concentration solution comprises: passing a brix solution of greater than about 0.3 brix through a third tank to form a third tank treated high brix water stream and a third tank treated contaminated solution; passing the third tank treated contaminated solution to the sewer for disposal; passing the third tank treated high brix water stream to a third membrane to form a third membrane treated high sugar retentate and a third membrane treated low sugar permeate; passing the third membrane treated low sugar permeate back to blend with the brix stream of greater than about 0.3 brix in third tank for further treatment; passing the third membrane treated high sugar retentate to a fourth tank forming a fourth tank treated brix stream followed by treatment in a fourth membrane to form a fourth membrane treated high sugar concentration solution and a fourth membrane treated downstream brix stream; passing the fourth membrane treated downstream brix stream to blend with the brix stream of less than about 0.3 brix in the second membrane; passing the fourth membrane treated high sugar concentration solution to a fifth tank forming a fifth tank treated brix stream followed by treatment in a fifth membrane to form a fifth membrane treated high sugar concentration solution and a fifth membrane treated low sugar concentration solution; passing the fifth membrane treated high sugar concentration solution to a sixth tank to form a high sugar concentration product; and passing the fifth membrane treated low sugar concentration solution back to the fourth tank for further treatment.