Water. Desalination + reuse
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February-March 2016 | Desalination & Water Reuse | 7 | business Aquatech wins China deal with zero liquid discharge Industrial and infrastructure water purification technology firm, Aquatech, has won a contract to provide water treatment with zero liquid discharge (ZLD) for a coal-to-liquid fuels (CTL) conversion project in China. The ZLD plant will recycle wastewater at more than 55 Ml/d discharged from a 4 Mt-a-year CTL plant being developed by Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry, a division of China's biggest coal producer, Shenhua Group. The recycled water will be treated to a high purity and reused in the process facility. Shenhua chose Aquatech to design, engineer, and supply the facility, and to supervise its installation and commissioning. Aquatech will supply an integrated and automated system that it has developed for the coal conversion market. This system utilizes the company's AquaEZ technology comprising ultrafiltration, high efficiency reverse osmosis, unseeded falling film evaporators, followed by crystallizers at the back end to achieve compete ZLD. Aquatech will also supply post-treatment for the recycled water to feed high-purity water to the process. General manager at Aquatech China, Tom Tseng, said Aquatech was awarded the deal on the basis of its track record of consistent high recoveries from difficult wastewater. "We have previous experience and strong operating installations in projects under similar conditions in China. This project strengthens our position as a leader in ZLD, especially in this part of the world," he said. Aquatech has won a contract to design and supply a multiple effect distillation (MED) seawater desalination system for Oman's Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic). Orpic specified MED technology for its Sohar refinery improvement project in Oman. It requires uninterrupted water supply to boilers and other site needs including service water and potable water. The desalination plant is scheduled to be commissioned in early 2016. Veolia signs Kazakhstan deal Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kazyna Capital Management to implement jointly a seawater desalination plant in Kazakhstan. Located in Aktau, the 125,000 m³/d plant will supply water to industries and households of Aktau and Zhanaozen, the two main cities in the oil province of the Manghystau, on the Caspian coast. Veolia said the memorandum followed its study to define a business model allowing for private sector participation in the implementation of this desalination project. The study was carried out on behalf of the Manghystau region in partnership with the Kazakhstan Public-Private Partnership Centre and was supported by French authorities. Kazyna Capital provides equity capital to companies at various stages of growth through private equity funds and jointly with other investors in sustainable development of the Kazakh economy. LG Chem bags orders worth US$ 8 million LG Chem has acquired new orders for water purification filters totalling US$ 8 million under exclusive deals with five desalination projects. The projects are at sites in Israel, Spain, Malta, Egypt and Mexico, the company said. The Korean firm was set to manufacture about 17,000 reverse osmosis (RO) filters at its Cheongju, factory by the end of 2016 – enough, it claimed, to filter 200,000 tonnes of seawater daily. "The latest deal will pave the way for LG Chem to increase the company's footprint in other countries. LG aims for 10% of the global RO filter market share by 2020," said a company spokesman. LG Chem said it planned to establish its global presence in the water purification industry through deals with 17 more countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Spain. "This large- scale exclusive deal proves our global competitiveness in RO filter production," said LG Chem vice chairman, Park Jin Soo. "We will continue to invest in related research and development to become a top- tier player in the field," he added. LG Chem said the move into RO membranes was part of a diversification strategy as a hedge against risk in the chemical sector. The latest orders make up LG Chem's biggest RO filter deal since it completed construction of its US$ 35 billion Cheongju factory in August. The orders, according to LG Chem, were the result of increasing demand for water treatment equipment that drove a 10% hike in RO filter sales to 1.2 trillion won (US$ 1.1 trillion) in 2014 and is expected to increase to 1.8 trillion won (US$ 1.6 trillion) by 2018. ContRaCt&tenDeRneWs