Water. Desalination + reuse
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| 8 | Desalination & Water Reuse | November-December 2015 BUSINESS Energy Recovery bags US$ 6 million crop of deals Flow energy technology firm, Energy Recovery, has picked up a string of contract wins totalling US$ 6 million for its pressure exchange technology in the US, Middle East and North Africa including the world's first large solar powered desalination plant. The company has won a pair of deals totalling US$ 1 million for desalination projects in California and Texas; two contracts in the Middle East and Morocco totalling US$ 3.6 million; and a US$ 1.4 million contract with a solar driven desalination project in Saudi Arabia. In Califonia it will supply its PX-Q300 pressure exchanger devices and AquaBold high-pressure pumps for the 15 Ml/d Charles E Meyer desalination plant retrofit in Santa Barbara, California, in partnership with the contractor for the reinstatement of the plant, IDE Americas. Energy Recovery has estimated that the plant will reduce its energy demand by about 26 GWh a year and its carbon footprint will fall by about 15,000 tonnes a year. Order shipment is expected in the third quarter of this year. The plant could be doubled in capacity in the future. Energy Recovery's president and chief executive officer, Joel Gay, said: "Sourcing both devices through Energy Recovery maximizes efficiencies for any plant, and we hope it will become a best practice for the desalination industry." Separately, Energy Recovery will provide its PX-Q300 pressure exchangers for the M&G Chemicals Corpus Christi Facility in Texas. Energy Recovery has partnered with global environmental engineering company, the Italveco Group. The desalination plant at the Corpus Christi facility was expected to produce 30 Ml/d to cover the plant's utility needs such as cooling and boiler water make up. It is scheduled to be in production by the first quarter of 2016. Energy Recovery estimated that the facility would reduce its energy use by about 40 GWh a year and shrink its carbon footprint by almost 24,000 tonnes a year. Order shipment is expected in the fourth quarter of 2015. Gay said: "Energy Recovery has 16,000 devices in use around the world, but with the demand for desalination having been historically limited in the US, we have had Chesapeake water project gets Xylem boost disproportionately few installations in our home country. This is starting to shift. While political factors will continue to present a challenge to widespread adoption of desalination in the US, these projects are a clear response to the epic drought that continues to wreak havoc on a number of state economies." Middle East and North Africa Following the US deals were two US$ 1.8 million deals in the Middle East and North Africa. One win was to supply its PX Pressure Exchanger system was for a 68 Ml/d desalination plant at an undisclosed site in the Middle East. It closed the earlier, similar deal in Morocco. The company will supply its PX-Q300 and PX-180 pressure exchangers for the plant. It has estimated the PX devices will reduce the plant power consumption by 9.7 MW, saving over 83 GWh a year, and help it avoid carbon dioxide emissions at 59,700 tonnes a year. Gay, said: "Importantly, this award is an early indicator of a strengthening global desalination market as we enter 2016." The Morocco contract with the National Power and Drinking Water Office (ONEE) is to provide PX- Q300 units for a process 100 Ml/d plant. The plant is ONEE's first public-private partnership system. The plant's capacity could be doubled in the future. Energy Recovery has estimated that the plant will save 92 GWh a year and reduce its carbon dioxide footprint by 54,200 tonnes a year. Saudi solar deal The company has won a US$ 1.4 million deal to supply its PX pressure exchanger technology for the world's first large-scale solar-powered desalination plant. Energy Recovery will supply its PX-Q300 pressure exchanger devices for a solar driven plant in Saudi Arabi that will produce fresh water at 60,000 m³/d. Energy Recovery said its PX equipment will reduce the plant's electrical load by some 8.4 MW, saving over 73 GWh a year Energy Recovery anticipates that the order will ship during the first quarter of 2016 and the plant will be operating by the first quarter of 2017. Water technology firm, Xylem, has won a contract to provide advanced treatment to an existing wastewater treatment plant in the city of Frederick, Maryland and play a key role in an initiative focused on improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. Xylem said it was supporting this initiative by "developing innovative and sustainable ways to reduce the levels of nitrate nitrogen and total phosphorus in the water before it is discharged into the Chesapeake Bay." Treated wastewater from Frederick flows into Chesapeake Bay where the water quality is being marred by excess nutrients that fuel the proliferation of damaging algal blooms. The blooms block sunlight to underwater grasses and remove oxygen from the water to spoil the ecosystem. Deputy director of public works for Frederick, Marc Stachowski, said: "The Chesapeake Bay area is a unique ecosystem that needs to be protected. As part of that protection the city is converting a key element of its water treatment process from chemical (chlorine) to ultraviolet (UV ) disinfection. IDE wins Santa Barbara deal Water treatment firm, IDE Americas, has been awarded a design, build operate deal to refurbish, operate and maintain the recommissioned reverse osmosis Charles E Meyer desalination plant in Santa Barbara, California. The plant will produce potable water at 3,125 acre-feet (3.85 million m³) a year to meet 26% of the city's water needs. IDE has the option to expand the plant to 7,500 acre- feet (9.25 million m³) and is scheduled to provide drinking water by October 2016. IDE has chosen Kiewit as its civil and electromechanical work contractor for the Santa Barbara plant based on its strong partnership in Poseidon Water's Carlsbad project in San Diego county.