IX-Liquid

IX-Liquid is a bounded, field-deployable liquid-remediation pilot platform for contaminated surface water, oily runoff, spill-response holding tanks, maintenance-yard washdown, and other small mixed-liquid cleanup jobs where a full permanent plant would be overkill.

It is designed to do five things in sequence:

1. Protect itself from bad feed with intake screening and pretreatment.
2. Knock down free oil, debris, and suspended solids before expensive polishing media sees the load.
3. Polish the remaining liquid with cartridge filtration, activated carbon, and an optional ion-exchange mission pack.
4. Verify output quality with pressure, flow, conductivity, pH, ORP, turbidity, and state-aware controls.
5. Route water safely to discharge, recirculation, or hold depending on measured conditions and machine health.

What IX-Liquid is for

Use IX-Liquid as a pilot or response unit, not as a fantasy municipal plant and not as a universal drinking-water machine.

Good fits:

• marinas and fueling zones
• oily stormwater and runoff pilots
• maintenance yards and washdown recovery
• spill-response support at small sites
• temporary remediation trials
• field studies to decide whether a permanent treatment train is justified

What IX-Liquid is not

IX-Liquid is not:

• a municipal wastewater plant
• a drinking-water guarantee
• a PFAS destruction claim
• a substitute for site-specific permitting, sampling, or licensed engineering
• a claim of unattended operation in every environment

Standalone architecture

IX-Liquid stands on four layers:

• Capture layer: coarse strainer, grit knockdown, coalescing separator, sorbent stage
• Polishing layer: cartridge filtration, activated carbon, optional ion exchange, optional UV-C
• Verification layer: flow, level, pressure, differential pressure, pH, ORP, conductivity, turbidity
• Operations layer: permissive-based startup, staged shutdown, event logging, maintenance flags, degraded mode, operator HMI

Nominal pilot envelope

This repo is intentionally scoped to a small pilot skid:

• nominal flow target: 8 GPM
• stretch target: 12 GPM
• feed type: contaminated non-sewage liquid streams with debris/oil/particulate loading
• deployment: skid, pad, trailer, or dockside temporary install
• power: shore power or generator with battery-backed controls

Build cost and time

Budgetary pilot-build range from this repo's BOM:

• Low estimate: $40,372
• High estimate: $66,515

Planning estimate for a serious first field pilot:

• Team: 3-5 engineers + 1-2 technicians/fabricators
• Build window: about 14-20 weeks from design freeze to factory acceptance test
• Nicer deployable/trailerized version: 6-9 months

See:

• bom/ix_liquid_bom.csv
• docs/ASSEMBLY.md
• docs/BUILD_SCHEDULE.md
• docs/PROOF_OF_CONCEPT.md

Repo layout

IX-Liquid/
├── bom/
├── configs/
├── docs/
├── examples/
├── schemas/
├── src/
├── tests/
├── assets/
└── tools/

Fast start for repo users

1. Read docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
2. Read docs/SAFETY_AND_NON_CLAIMS.md
3. Review bom/ix_liquid_bom.csv
4. Walk through docs/ASSEMBLY.md
5. Run the small control-logic model in src/ix_liquid/
6. Use docs/PROOF_OF_CONCEPT.md as the first validation ladder

License

Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.