How the No-Briner eliminates brine at the source.
Most plants manage brine. The No-Briner is engineered so that no reject stream is ever produced. Here is how a brackish inland stream — 5,000 to 50,000 mg/L TDS — leaves the site as nothing but clean water and pure fertilizer, with no concentrate left behind.
How the No-Briner works, step by step
Five stages carry inland brackish water from intake to finished product without ever forming a concentrate to dispose of.
Characterize the stream
The full-panel water report fixes the chemistry — TDS, scaling species and the salts in solution. This sets the recovery targets and the configuration of every downstream stage so nothing is left over.
Pre-condition & protect
Suspended solids, hardness and scale-formers are removed up front so the recovery stages run fouling-free — the failure mode that forces conventional plants to bleed off a brine stream.
Drive recovery past the RO wall
Staged separation pushes water recovery beyond the point where conventional RO stalls — recovering nearly all the water instead of stopping and rejecting the rest as concentrate.
Convert the salts to solids
Rather than concentrating the remaining dissolved solids into a liquid brine, the No-Briner separates them out as solid, recoverable material — there is no liquid reject to pond or haul.
Finish water & fertilizer
The recovered water is polished to clean-water spec and the recovered solids are finished into farm-grade fertilizer — two saleable outputs, zero waste output.
Confirm zero discharge
The site mass-balance closes on water and fertilizer alone. With no brine stream in the balance, operation is true zero-liquid-discharge — by design, not by approximation.
Why operators choose the No-Briner
Eliminating the reject stream doesn't just remove a cost — it removes an entire category of risk and obligation.
Nothing to dispose of
No brine means no ponds, liners, hauling or injection — the disposal program disappears from the operating model.
Permit risk removed
You can't be exposed to a brine-discharge permit you never need. The biggest inland regulatory fragility is gone.
More water recovered
Recovery runs past the conventional wall — 99%+ of the stream returns as clean water instead of being rejected.
Salts become fertilizer
The solids that would have been brine are finished into farm-grade fertilizer that Desalus refines and sells — which is what lets Desalus keep your clean-water rate low.
Land reclaimed
Acreage that would have gone to evaporation ponds stays productive, and the footprint never grows over time.
Operated as a service
Desalus capitalizes, configures, runs and optimizes the No-Briner around your exact water — you simply buy back the clean water it produces.
No-Briner specifications
The envelope the system is engineered to operate in. Exact recovery and yield are modeled per site from your water report.
| Designed-for TDS | 5,000–50,000 mg/L |
| Water recovery | 99%+ |
| Brine / reject stream | None — never created |
| Disposal infrastructure | No ponds, liners or wells |
| Products out | Clean water (to you) + fertilizer (Desalus sells) |
| Best fit | Inland mines, municipalities & industry |
How can there be no brine at all?
Because the salts are never concentrated into a liquid reject. The No-Briner pushes water recovery past the conventional wall and converts the remaining dissolved solids directly into recoverable solid material that is finished as fertilizer — so no liquid concentrate ever forms.
Doesn't pushing recovery that high cause scaling?
That's why pre-conditioning comes first. Removing scale-formers and hardness up front is precisely what lets recovery run past the point where conventional plants would foul and be forced to reject a brine bleed.
What leaves the site?
Only two things: clean water and farm-grade fertilizer. The mass balance closes on those alone — there is no third waste stream to truck, pond or inject.
How do I get numbers for my site?
Send Desalus your full-panel water quality and volume report. You'll receive a site-specific model of recovery, your clean-water rate per thousand gallons, and the brine-disposal and capital costs you eliminate.
Model the No-Briner for your exact stream.
A full-panel water report turns this mechanism into your numbers: recovery, your clean-water rate per thousand gallons, and the brine-disposal and capital costs you'll never pay again.
No obligation. Your data drives a site-specific No-Briner recovery model and your clean-water rate per thousand gallons.
- Stage-by-stage recovery modeled to your chemistry
- Your attractive clean-water rate per thousand gallons
- Confirmed zero-brine, zero-liquid-discharge operation
- Disposal, pond, permit and capital cost removed entirely