Water. Desalination + reuse
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Water. desalination + reuse September 2016 The Quarterly 5 NORTH AMERICA Xylem buoyed by utility markets globally Xylem's water infrastructure segment reported operating income up 8 per cent to $70 million in the second quarter, helped by cost savings and effi ciencies of scale. Revenue grew by 3 per cent to $566 million, refl ecting strength in public utility markets, particularly in the US, and projects in emerging markets, notably India. "We continued to capitalise on robust growth in the global public utility sector, which helped to off set so ness in the industrial market," said Patrick Decker, president and chief executive, Xylem. Energy Recovery gets a desal boost in Q2 Energy Recovery reported net income of $500,000 for the second quarter of 2016, up from a $3.3 million loss in the comparable period of 2015, driven partly by "strengthening demand in global desalination markets". This was on revenue of $13.2 million, up 26 per cent, in "one of the best second quarters in the company's history", said president and chief executive offi cer Joel Gay. As well as global desalination demand, the company ascribed its improved performance to a favourable shi in product mix, revenue associated with the Schlumberger deal exclusivity fee, and a reduction in operating expenses. EGYPT Kuwait Fund backs Sinai desalination Egypt is to build fi ve new desalination plants to serve the drinking water needs of residents in the Sinai Peninsular. The largest, with a capacity of 20,000 m3/d, will be located in the town of El Tor, on the west coast of South Sinai, and the other four, each with a capacity of 10,000 m3/d, will be dotted around the peninsular's coastline at Ras Sedr, AbuZenima, Daha, and Nuwaiba. The projects will be fi nanced by a $98.6 million loan from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, and form part of a wider scheme to develop the Sinai Peninsula. The desalination plants will include eight pumping stations and 42 kilometres of pipelines, and are expected to be completed by 2019. The loan is the 42nd made by the Kuwait Fund to the Egyptian government, and was signed by Egypt's minister of international co-operation, Sahar Nasr, and director general of the Kuwait Fund, Abdulwahab Al-Bader. OMAN Hyfl ux secures $185m for Muscat plant Qurayyat Desalination SAOC, a subsidiary of Hyfl ux, has secured non-recourse fi nance of $185 million for a seawater reverse osmosis plant in Qurayyat, Oman. The plant, Hyfl ux's largest in the country, in the governorate of Muscat, will produce 200,000 m3/d of potable water. The deal covers sale of water to Oman Power and Water Procurement Company for 20 years to 2037. Finance was provided by Mizuho Bank, Standard Chartered Bank in Dubai, and Cliff ord Capital of Singapore, which is off ering a fi xed-to-fl oating rate term loan as part of the package. BRUSSELS EC backs electrodialysis pilot series The European Commission is backing a series of desalination pilots to discover if electrodialysis can be established as the preferred process for seawater desalination globally. The scheme, REvivED water, is receiving €9.8 million ($10.9 million) of funding, and comprises 12 pilot projects: eight brackish water pilots in developing countries in critical or particularly sensitive areas; two tap water pilots, in Germany and the Netherlands; and two seawater pilots in the Netherlands and Spain. It will be co-ordinated by Fujifi lm Manufacturing Europe, and the project dissemination partners are AquaTT and European Desalination Society. "We will get lower energy consumption by using electrodialysis, compared to desalination, thanks to inventions derived from electrochemical energy generation from salinity gradients (reverse electrodialysis), which are applicable to electrodialysis," it said. The other project partners are Abengoa, Deukum, Phaesun, Red Stack, Universita degli Studi de Palermo, Universiteit Gent, and Wetsus.