Water. Desalination + reuse
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| 10 | Desalination & Water Reuse | February-March 2016 BUSINESS H2O Innovation picks up contract trio to boost order book to new high Canada-based H2O Innovation has won two new contracts in Canada and one new deal in the US. According to H2O Innovation the new contracts bring the company's order book to a record high of CAD 50.8 million (US$ 35.6 million) excluding the sales backlog from its specialty products and services business line, PWT, Piedmont and H2O Innovation Maple. The wins were for: l the design, manufacture and commissioning of a two-stage ultrafiltration (UF) system with a total of five trains to treat water from the Englishman River from the Englishman River Water Service; l the pre-selection for supply of a new six-train UF system to treat tertiary effluent from the Valencia Water Reclamation Plant of the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County; and l the design, manufacture and commissioning of a wastewater treatment system for the national historic site of Lower Fort Garry in Manitoba. The Englishman project will produce potable water at 16,000 m³/d for the City of Parksville, in British Columbia. The system will be expandable to 48,000 m³/d to meet Parksville's current and future demands. This system includes H2O Innovation's FiberFlex skid - an open platform technology that Chinese plant deal win goes to Energy Recovery enables the user to interchange between several types of UF module. The recently-acquired Clearlogx monitoring technology will also be part of the system in order to log and automatically optimize coagulant dose to maximize the life of the membrane and reduce plant operating expenses. The Valencia system too will be designed with the FiberFlex skid and will produce water for reuse in agricultural applications at up to 38,989 m³/d. The Manitoba system will use the biological Bio-Wheel process to treat municipal wastewater and provide nutrient removal. The company said the system designed for Lower Fort Garry was "very sturdy, reliable, simple to operate and will have low energy consumption requirements." It will treat wastewater at 30 to 60 m³/d. President and chief executive officer of H2O Innovation, Frédéric Dugré, said: "We are especially pleased by the rapid integration of the Clearlogx technology to our offer and the positive response generated by our customers only a few weeks after its introduction." He said the interest in Clearlogx could boost the company's project business line as well as on its PWT specialty products line, "which will ensure long-term supply of coagulants." Energy Recovery has won a US$ 2.3 million to supply its pressure exchange technology for a 100,000 m³/d desalination plant in China. Energy Recovery will partner in the project with Beijing Originwater Technology. It will provide its PX-Q300 Pressure Exchanger devices for the Dongjiakou desalination plant, located in Shandong province. The order is scheduled to ship during the second quarter of 2016. Energy Recovery estimated its devices will reduce the plant power consumption by 8.5 MW, saving over 73 GWh annually and help it avoid 43,800 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year. Energy Recovery's president and chief executive officer, Joel Gay, said: "China's marketplace is an expanding environment for our energy recovery products. We are excited to broaden our offerings in the region, and to end this year on a commanding note." Veolia Peru wins operation deal for mine desalination Veolia Peru, has won a three-year operation and maintenance contract for a 4.1 Ml/d reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Cerro Lindo multi metal mine owned by exploration and mining firm, Milpo. "Seawater desalination for process water is a rapidly expanding activity in areas of Latin America suffering from water stress," said Veolia's director Latin America, Ramon Rebuelta. Cerro Lindo – which produces lead zinc, copper and silver – in 2007 became the first mining site in Peru to stop using river water for its operations. Its desalination plant supplies the site with industrial process water without adding to the region's water stress. In 2016, the output will be stepped up to 4.9 Ml/d. The seawater intake for the desalination plant is on the coast and the desalinated water is transported 40 km to the Cerro Lindo site. Desalitech bags water treatment deal for five power plants Desalitech has won a contract with Southern California Edison (SCE) to supply five of its ReFlex water treatment systems for installation at SCE's peak power generating stations in California. The ReFlex reverse osmosis systems are, according to Desalitech, guaranteed to provide at least 90% recovery, "significantly reducing water consumption and wastewater generation compared to traditional reverse osmosis systems, which generate two to three times more wastewater." The systems require "up to 35% less energy to operate" and offer greater resistance to silica scaling which plagues many water treatment systems in Southern California. SCE's peak plant, purify water for use in the gas turbines that drive the generation sets. Desalitech said the systems would reduce environmental impact and significantly reduce water treatment operating costs. The SCE plants are sited in a 60 km radius of Los Angeles. California industries are implementing urgently, initiatives to reduce water consumption following a statewide mandate in April, 2015 to reduce water use by 25%.