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Suez Environnement wins reuse water treatment contract in China
NEWS also enables continuous processing by coupling the TFF step in-line with other process steps. ‘Tangential flow filtration is widely used by biopharmaceuticals manufacturers for downstream concentration, and the industry can benefit from new ways to simplify the process,’ said Daniel Stamm, Head of Global Pharma Processing. ‘EMD Millipore has been collaborating with its customers on single-pass TFF process development, enabling them to meet the demands of higher titer processes, without major investments in new equipment, with great success.’ EMD Millipore’s single-pass TFF system uses its proven Pellicon cassettes, which are TFF devices ideal for higher titer therapeutic antibodies and more demanding filtration processes that require higher operating pressures, temperatures, concentrations or caustic cleaning regimes. EMD Millipore says the cassettes deliver unmatched performance consistency and have been used by its customers worldwide at every stage and scale of bio-pharmaceuticals production. Contacts: EMD Millipore, 290 Concord Road, Billerica, MA 01821, USA. Tel: +1 781 533 6000, www.emdmillipore.com Merck KgaA, Frankfurter Str. 250, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany. Tel: +49 6151 720, www.merck.de
Hyflux supplies containerised desalination systems to Saudi Arabia
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hrough its wholly-owned subsidiary Hydrochem Saudi Ltd, Singapore’s Hyflux Ltd – a provider of water, power management and environmental technology – has been awarded a contract worth about US$48 million from stateowned Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC) to design, build and supply containerised desalination systems to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The systems – with a total designed capacity of 30 000 m3 (7.9 million gallons) per day – will be located on the site of the existing Yanbu Desalination Plant on the Red Sea coast, 350 km (217 miles) north of Jeddah. It will be one of the largest of its kind and will augment the desalination plant’s capacity to ensure a continuous and reliable water supply to the industrial city of Yanbu and the nearby Medina region. Under this contract Hyflux will build 10 modular containerised units, which will incorporate its proprietary Kristal ultrafiltration (UF) 4
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membrane technology for the pretreatment phase of the sea-water reverse osmosis desalination process. Each unit will have the capacity to desalinate 3000 m3 (around 790 000 gallons) of water per day. The project is expected to be completed in approximately eight months. Hyflux says that its modular containerised desalination system provides high-quality water whilst minimising the impact on the environment. The system is compact and flexible, which makes it easy to deploy, install and commission. Commenting on the contract, Olivia Lum, Executive Chairman and Group CEO, Hyflux, said: ‘We are honoured to be given this opportunity to work with SWCC. This project is a great example of Hyflux’s ability to provide quick, cost-effective systems and products for our customers.’ This contract is expected to contribute to Hyflux’s financials for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2015. Contact: Hyflux Ltd, Hyflux Innovation Centre, 80 Bendemeer Road, Singapore 339949. Tel: +65 6214 0777, www.hyflux.com
Osmoflo’s technology produces desalinated water for Fortescue Metals
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ustralian desalination company Osmoflo Pty Ltd has been awarded a contract to supply desalinated water to Fortescue Metals Group at Port Hedland, Australia’s highest tonnage port. The desalination plant will be used to meet the demand for dust suppression water; thereby providing an alternative to drawing upon limited supplies of potable and bore water in the region. Osmoflo was originally engaged by Fortescue to supply a rental plant, which has been in use since 2011. The original system was delivered, fully installed and operational in 12 weeks. Following a review of Fortescue’s water requirements the rental contract has been converted into a longer-term build, own and operate agreement. The sea-water desalination plant, inclusive of intake and pretreatment, has a capacity of 4500 m3 (1.2 million gallons) per day – providing Fortescue with additional capacity to supply third parties within the Port Hedland region. ‘The amalgamation of the original rental contract to a build, own and operate contract is a result of a great working relationship between Fortescue and Osmoflo, which already spans
over four years,’ commented Marc Fabig, Managing Director, Osmoflo. The plant is set to be completed and fully operational as this issue of Membrane Technology goes to press. Fortescue is the world’s fourth largest producer of iron ore, and is listed in the S & P/ ASX50 share index, which represents the large cap universe for the Australian equity market. With a capacity of 165 million tonnes per annum, the company exports mainly to China and Southeast Asia. Contact: Osmoflo Pty Ltd, 382 Diment Road, Burton, 5110, South Australia, Australia. Tel: +61 8 8282 9700, www.osmoflo.com
Suez Environnement wins reuse water treatment contract in China
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uez Environnement has signed a contract worth over E140 million with China’s Beijing Drainage Group (BDG), a wholly state-owned wastewater utility. Under this contract the French company will supply equipment for use in the Huai Fang reuse water treatment plant in Beijing and will be responsible for installation supervision, commissioning and conducting performance tests. To be operated by BDG, the plant has been under construction since 2014 and is scheduled to come on stream in mid-2016. It will be equipped with ultrafiltration (UF) membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology and an ozone system, which will treat the wastewater. These technologies enable the plant to produce optimum quality water, thereby contributing to the conservation of the natural environment receiving the outflow. The wastewater treated by the facility may be reused for city management projects (green-belt type) or discharged into wetland and watercourses. The plant, which will be built underground, will improve the quality of the water environment and produce sound environmental benefits in the south-west region of Beijing. The companies say it will be the largest underground reuse water project in Asia – with a capacity of 600 000 m3 (158.5 million gallons) per day – when it comes on stream in 2016. It will be capable of handling the wastewater produced by over 3 million people. Marie-Ange Debon, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, International Division, Suez
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NEWS/IN BRIEF Environnement, commented: ‘Our joint project with Beijing Drainage Group demonstrates Suez Environnement’s commitment to the Chinese market. We are pleased to provide the local authorities with our expertise in water management and thereby support China in its environmental efforts under its 12th Five-Year Plan.’ In Beijing, the company has already supplied equipment for the Jiuxianqiao wastewater treatment plant (200 000 m3 or 52.8 million gallons day), operated by BDG, which has been processing wastewater produced by over a million people since 1997. It also supplied the equipment for the Beijing Capital Steel Group wastewater treatment plant in 2001, the Beijing Capital Steel Mining Co purification plant in 2003 and a third drinking water treatment plant in Beijing in 2007. BDG’s principal activities include the collection and treatment of sewage as well as reclamation of treated wastewater, with the objective of controlling water pollution and effectively managing water resources. Contacts: Suez Environnement, Tour CB21, 16 place de l’Iris, 92040 Paris La Défense Cedex, France. Tel: +33 1 5881 2000, www.suez-environnement.com Beijing Drainage Group Co Ltd, Beijing Drainage Building, No. 37 Chegongzhuang Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, China. Tel: +86 10 8838 6666, www.bdc.cn
Aquatech completes one year of operating the CSIA wastewater plant
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quatech International Corp, which specialises in water and wastewater technologies for the industrial and infrastructure markets, recently announced the commissioning and completion of one year of operation of its wastewater treatment project for Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL). The facility is located at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) – the gateway to Mumbai, India’s financial capital and its most populous city – catering to the new international terminal 2. Aquatech had been awarded an EPC contract to supply, on a complete turnkey basis, a 10-million litre (2.6-million gallon) per day sewage treatment system and 4-million litre (about 1-million gallon) per day recycling system for the new airport terminal. The company successfully
August 2015
completed installation and commissioning in 2014, and handed over the wastewater treatment plant to the client in early 2015. The sewage treatment plant has been in operation for more than a year. In addition, the product water quality exceeds design limits and is being used for HVAC make-up, says Aquatech. ‘The MIAL project is an important milestone for Aquatech in further consolidating its market leadership position in the country’s rapidly growing wastewater treatment and recycling market for infrastructure as well as industrial sectors,’ said Amit Sharma, Vice President, Eastern Industrial Solutions, Aquatech, who notes that Aquatech has also been awarded a comprehensive operation and maintenance contract for the plant. The project integrates a combination of advanced treatment technologies, including a sequencing batch reactor (SBR), Qua Q-SEP ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis processes. SBR is a biological treatment process that incorporates a high level of process sophistication in a configuration that is cost and space effective. In addition to the use of innovative technologies, the project required ingenuity in the design of the facility because of the rigid and unusual space constraints, says Aquatech. The plant is situated on a small triangular plot completely surrounded by utility buildings and an adjacent river, thus posing significant design and engineering challenges. To solve this problem, Aquatech’s engineering team devised a circular design to fit the two SBR basins into the triangular plot and opted to configure the plant vertically. ‘This not only overcame space and size constraints, but also provided an economical approach for the client. The extraordinary design, and efficient and effortless operation of the plant have made it an outstanding example of technological and engineering advancement,’ added Sharma. Contacts: Aquatech International Corp, One Four Coins Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317, USA. Tel: +1 724 746 5300, www.aquatech.com Aquatech Systems Asia Pvt Ltd, Survey No. 244/2, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Hinjewadi, Pune 411 057, India. Tel: +91 20 6654 7000, Email: [email protected]
Saltworks moves its manufacturing operations to larger facilities
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altworks Technologies Inc, a Canadian firm that manufactures
In Brief New books cover emerging membrane technologies Elsevier has announced the publication of three new books covering emerging membrane technologies for energy and water treatment applications. These are: ‘Membrane Reactors for Energy Applications and Basic Chemical Production’ (by Angelo Basile, Luisa Di Paola, Faisal Hai and Vincenzo Piemonte); ‘Pervaporation, Vapour Permeation and Membrane Distillation: Principles and Applications’ (by Angelo Basile, Alberto Figoli and Mohamed Khayet); and ‘Advances in Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment: Materials, Processes and Applications’ (by Angelo Basile, Alfredo Cassano and Navin Rastogi). More information: http://store.elsevier.com GE RO software now covers ZeeWeed 1500 membranes General Electric Co (GE) has recently upgraded its Winflows reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) design and simulation software to include its ZeeWeed 1500 membranes. There are two significant additions to Winflows. The first is the addition of the firm’s newest membrane elements that have been launched recently, including the extreme low-energy RO membranes called the AP series and the sea-water sulfate reducing NF membranes. The second major upgrade is the ability to choose Mandarin as a language preference. More information: www.gewater.com/winflows.html. Solar energy provides power for British West Indies RO plant US-based Inovateus Solar Llc has completed the installation of a 1-MW solar-power generating plant for the CuisinArt Golf Resort & Spa in Anguilla, British West Indies. The system uses a battery back-up system to store energy. This provides an uninterruptible supply of power to the Resort’s reverse osmosis (RO) plant throughout the day to create potable water for the residents on the island, guests of the resort and irrigation water for the golf course. Ovivo awarded UPW contract Ovivo Inc, a global company dedicated to water and wastewater treatment, has been awarded a contract to provide an ultrapure water (UPW) plant for the new clean room facilities at semiconductor research institute Imec, in Leuven, Belgium. The system is scheduled for delivery at the end 2015.
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Hyflux supplies containerised desalination systems to Saudi Arabia
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hrough its wholly-owned subsidiary Hydrochem Saudi Ltd, Singapore’s Hyflux Ltd – a provider of water, power management and environmental technology – has been awarded a contract worth about US$48 million from stateowned Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC) to design, build and supply containerised desalination systems to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The systems – with a total designed capacity of 30 000 m3 (7.9 million gallons) per day – will be located on the site of the existing Yanbu Desalination Plant on the Red Sea coast, 350 km (217 miles) north of Jeddah. It will be one of the largest of its kind and will augment the desalination plant’s capacity to ensure a continuous and reliable water supply to the industrial city of Yanbu and the nearby Medina region. Under this contract Hyflux will build 10 modular containerised units, which will incorporate its proprietary Kristal ultrafiltration (UF) 4
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membrane technology for the pretreatment phase of the sea-water reverse osmosis desalination process. Each unit will have the capacity to desalinate 3000 m3 (around 790 000 gallons) of water per day. The project is expected to be completed in approximately eight months. Hyflux says that its modular containerised desalination system provides high-quality water whilst minimising the impact on the environment. The system is compact and flexible, which makes it easy to deploy, install and commission. Commenting on the contract, Olivia Lum, Executive Chairman and Group CEO, Hyflux, said: ‘We are honoured to be given this opportunity to work with SWCC. This project is a great example of Hyflux’s ability to provide quick, cost-effective systems and products for our customers.’ This contract is expected to contribute to Hyflux’s financials for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2015. Contact: Hyflux Ltd, Hyflux Innovation Centre, 80 Bendemeer Road, Singapore 339949. Tel: +65 6214 0777, www.hyflux.com
Osmoflo’s technology produces desalinated water for Fortescue Metals
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ustralian desalination company Osmoflo Pty Ltd has been awarded a contract to supply desalinated water to Fortescue Metals Group at Port Hedland, Australia’s highest tonnage port. The desalination plant will be used to meet the demand for dust suppression water; thereby providing an alternative to drawing upon limited supplies of potable and bore water in the region. Osmoflo was originally engaged by Fortescue to supply a rental plant, which has been in use since 2011. The original system was delivered, fully installed and operational in 12 weeks. Following a review of Fortescue’s water requirements the rental contract has been converted into a longer-term build, own and operate agreement. The sea-water desalination plant, inclusive of intake and pretreatment, has a capacity of 4500 m3 (1.2 million gallons) per day – providing Fortescue with additional capacity to supply third parties within the Port Hedland region. ‘The amalgamation of the original rental contract to a build, own and operate contract is a result of a great working relationship between Fortescue and Osmoflo, which already spans
over four years,’ commented Marc Fabig, Managing Director, Osmoflo. The plant is set to be completed and fully operational as this issue of Membrane Technology goes to press. Fortescue is the world’s fourth largest producer of iron ore, and is listed in the S & P/ ASX50 share index, which represents the large cap universe for the Australian equity market. With a capacity of 165 million tonnes per annum, the company exports mainly to China and Southeast Asia. Contact: Osmoflo Pty Ltd, 382 Diment Road, Burton, 5110, South Australia, Australia. Tel: +61 8 8282 9700, www.osmoflo.com
Suez Environnement wins reuse water treatment contract in China
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uez Environnement has signed a contract worth over E140 million with China’s Beijing Drainage Group (BDG), a wholly state-owned wastewater utility. Under this contract the French company will supply equipment for use in the Huai Fang reuse water treatment plant in Beijing and will be responsible for installation supervision, commissioning and conducting performance tests. To be operated by BDG, the plant has been under construction since 2014 and is scheduled to come on stream in mid-2016. It will be equipped with ultrafiltration (UF) membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology and an ozone system, which will treat the wastewater. These technologies enable the plant to produce optimum quality water, thereby contributing to the conservation of the natural environment receiving the outflow. The wastewater treated by the facility may be reused for city management projects (green-belt type) or discharged into wetland and watercourses. The plant, which will be built underground, will improve the quality of the water environment and produce sound environmental benefits in the south-west region of Beijing. The companies say it will be the largest underground reuse water project in Asia – with a capacity of 600 000 m3 (158.5 million gallons) per day – when it comes on stream in 2016. It will be capable of handling the wastewater produced by over 3 million people. Marie-Ange Debon, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, International Division, Suez
August 2015
NEWS/IN BRIEF Environnement, commented: ‘Our joint project with Beijing Drainage Group demonstrates Suez Environnement’s commitment to the Chinese market. We are pleased to provide the local authorities with our expertise in water management and thereby support China in its environmental efforts under its 12th Five-Year Plan.’ In Beijing, the company has already supplied equipment for the Jiuxianqiao wastewater treatment plant (200 000 m3 or 52.8 million gallons day), operated by BDG, which has been processing wastewater produced by over a million people since 1997. It also supplied the equipment for the Beijing Capital Steel Group wastewater treatment plant in 2001, the Beijing Capital Steel Mining Co purification plant in 2003 and a third drinking water treatment plant in Beijing in 2007. BDG’s principal activities include the collection and treatment of sewage as well as reclamation of treated wastewater, with the objective of controlling water pollution and effectively managing water resources. Contacts: Suez Environnement, Tour CB21, 16 place de l’Iris, 92040 Paris La Défense Cedex, France. Tel: +33 1 5881 2000, www.suez-environnement.com Beijing Drainage Group Co Ltd, Beijing Drainage Building, No. 37 Chegongzhuang Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, China. Tel: +86 10 8838 6666, www.bdc.cn
Aquatech completes one year of operating the CSIA wastewater plant
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quatech International Corp, which specialises in water and wastewater technologies for the industrial and infrastructure markets, recently announced the commissioning and completion of one year of operation of its wastewater treatment project for Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL). The facility is located at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) – the gateway to Mumbai, India’s financial capital and its most populous city – catering to the new international terminal 2. Aquatech had been awarded an EPC contract to supply, on a complete turnkey basis, a 10-million litre (2.6-million gallon) per day sewage treatment system and 4-million litre (about 1-million gallon) per day recycling system for the new airport terminal. The company successfully
August 2015
completed installation and commissioning in 2014, and handed over the wastewater treatment plant to the client in early 2015. The sewage treatment plant has been in operation for more than a year. In addition, the product water quality exceeds design limits and is being used for HVAC make-up, says Aquatech. ‘The MIAL project is an important milestone for Aquatech in further consolidating its market leadership position in the country’s rapidly growing wastewater treatment and recycling market for infrastructure as well as industrial sectors,’ said Amit Sharma, Vice President, Eastern Industrial Solutions, Aquatech, who notes that Aquatech has also been awarded a comprehensive operation and maintenance contract for the plant. The project integrates a combination of advanced treatment technologies, including a sequencing batch reactor (SBR), Qua Q-SEP ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis processes. SBR is a biological treatment process that incorporates a high level of process sophistication in a configuration that is cost and space effective. In addition to the use of innovative technologies, the project required ingenuity in the design of the facility because of the rigid and unusual space constraints, says Aquatech. The plant is situated on a small triangular plot completely surrounded by utility buildings and an adjacent river, thus posing significant design and engineering challenges. To solve this problem, Aquatech’s engineering team devised a circular design to fit the two SBR basins into the triangular plot and opted to configure the plant vertically. ‘This not only overcame space and size constraints, but also provided an economical approach for the client. The extraordinary design, and efficient and effortless operation of the plant have made it an outstanding example of technological and engineering advancement,’ added Sharma. Contacts: Aquatech International Corp, One Four Coins Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317, USA. Tel: +1 724 746 5300, www.aquatech.com Aquatech Systems Asia Pvt Ltd, Survey No. 244/2, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Hinjewadi, Pune 411 057, India. Tel: +91 20 6654 7000, Email: [email protected]
Saltworks moves its manufacturing operations to larger facilities
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altworks Technologies Inc, a Canadian firm that manufactures
In Brief New books cover emerging membrane technologies Elsevier has announced the publication of three new books covering emerging membrane technologies for energy and water treatment applications. These are: ‘Membrane Reactors for Energy Applications and Basic Chemical Production’ (by Angelo Basile, Luisa Di Paola, Faisal Hai and Vincenzo Piemonte); ‘Pervaporation, Vapour Permeation and Membrane Distillation: Principles and Applications’ (by Angelo Basile, Alberto Figoli and Mohamed Khayet); and ‘Advances in Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment: Materials, Processes and Applications’ (by Angelo Basile, Alfredo Cassano and Navin Rastogi). More information: http://store.elsevier.com GE RO software now covers ZeeWeed 1500 membranes General Electric Co (GE) has recently upgraded its Winflows reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) design and simulation software to include its ZeeWeed 1500 membranes. There are two significant additions to Winflows. The first is the addition of the firm’s newest membrane elements that have been launched recently, including the extreme low-energy RO membranes called the AP series and the sea-water sulfate reducing NF membranes. The second major upgrade is the ability to choose Mandarin as a language preference. More information: www.gewater.com/winflows.html. Solar energy provides power for British West Indies RO plant US-based Inovateus Solar Llc has completed the installation of a 1-MW solar-power generating plant for the CuisinArt Golf Resort & Spa in Anguilla, British West Indies. The system uses a battery back-up system to store energy. This provides an uninterruptible supply of power to the Resort’s reverse osmosis (RO) plant throughout the day to create potable water for the residents on the island, guests of the resort and irrigation water for the golf course. Ovivo awarded UPW contract Ovivo Inc, a global company dedicated to water and wastewater treatment, has been awarded a contract to provide an ultrapure water (UPW) plant for the new clean room facilities at semiconductor research institute Imec, in Leuven, Belgium. The system is scheduled for delivery at the end 2015.
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