Water. desalination + reuse

COMMENT eDiToR'sCoRNeR The Chinese are coming! WHILE THERE were undoubtedly one or two drawbacks to being an exhibitor at the IDA World Congress in Tianjin, non-Chinese companies taking space in the exhibition must have been secretly impressed (and perhaps worried) by how many companies from the host country were exhibiting their wares - primarily membranes of various types. This is a situation that is only going to mushroom. The days of the People's Republic importing non-Chinese desalination and water reuse technology are coming to a close, so, if you don't have a Chinese partner yet, now is the time to find one. The evidence is clearly contained in the country's Five Year Plan revealed a year ago and the recently published China Year Book Of Sea Water Desalination (2012), which is in both Chinese and English. You can read some excerpts from the SSD: SSD: Mega scale HPP latter publication on pp 14-18. As most sections derive from the Five Year Plan, they provide the reader with an overwhelming sense that China is going to not only construct a lot of desalination and water reuse plants in the coming years, but also that these will, before long, be built entirely with locally sourced technology. As the Year Book states: "It is necessary to understand the importance and urgency of desalination, seize the opportunities, increase strength of work, promote healthy development of the desalination industry and strengthen the capacity of the sustainable utilization of the water resource." In the context of Deng Xiaoping theory, the Chinese see this as a "win-win" situation balancing economic and social development with ecological resources and the environment to contribute to the sustainable utilization of water resources and China's HP-HEMI: Mega scale ERD and system control security of water supply. Considerable national resources are going to be put behind the industry to make this happen. New companies entering the international market outside China complain constantly that the conservatism of the industry is preventing them from bringing their products to market because they cannot obtain a commercial field trial to demonstrate their efficacy. The new companies in China will not have this problem – the next few years will see a marked increase in the number of demonstration projects around the country as it seeks to bring its equipment standards up to those around the globe. When they have done that, of course, they will be stiff competition for existing suppliers and look increasingly outwards. We live in interesting times! Robin Wiseman HPB: HPB: Mega scale ERD FEDCO is a global leader in the manufacture of high-pressure pumps and energy recovery devices (ERDs) for brackish and seawater RO systems. FEDCO's seawater RO high pressure product line sets the standard for the lowest life cycle cost, from mega-scale to small system applications. We can be your single-source for single and multi-stage centrifugal pump and ERD packages. SWRO PACKAGE MSS & HPB LP-HEMI: Integrated HPP and ERD MSD: All duplex SS MSB: MSB: HPP for BWRO LPD: Brine to electricity FEDCO's brackish water RO product line uses modular (According to a 3rd party industry components for optimal cost, efficiency, and delivery. The low pressure units can be configured as a feed pump, energy recovery, integrated motor-assisted turbocharger, and brine-driven turbo-generator. publication of desalination market.) Making fluid energy work for you Tel: +734.241.3935 Fax: +734.241.5173 www.fedco-usa.com sales@fedco-usa.com FLUID EQUIPMENT DE VELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC | 4 | Desalination & Water Reuse | November-December 2013 Contact us today to learn more about the world's most innovative RO pumping and energy recovery products. 800 TERNES DRIVE MONROE, MI 48162 USA

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