At many current sites, RO membrane reject is sent to a local Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) or even discharged directly into a river, stream or ocean thereby increasing the salinity of these receiving water bodies. This is an unsustainable solution, and the EPA is increasingly limiting these discharge practices. However, Vacom’s unique technology uses a combination of proprietary and patent pending processes related to high shear, high velocity, and submerged boiling of the waste stream. We have developed proprietary heat exchanger designs to concentrate RO reject without the addition of any chemicals and without any pretreatment steps. This is why we call it the One-Step™ system… just add your RO reject and the Vacom Systems™ will concentrate it to a minimal disposal volume and return clean, reusable distilled water.