Water. desalination + reuse

May/June 2012

Water. Desalination + reuse

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BUSINESS Oasys deal to treat Texas produced water with FO Oasys Water has struck an agreement with Houston-based Select Energy Services, LLC (SES), a leading provider of engineered water solutions to the oil and gas industry, for exclusive use of its forward osmosis (FO) technology in the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, USA. The deal, which will last for two years, follows a six-month pilot using Oasys' Membrane Brine Concentrator (MBC) to treat Marcellus Shale water. This showed that the technology would provide a cost- effective alternative to evaporation. SES will use the MBC to treat high- salinity produced waters from hydraulic fracturing activities. The MBC uses FO to provide cost-effective reused water, while minimizing the impact on the environment. Oil/gas sector MBR leads new H2O Innovation jobs Supply of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) wastewater treatment and reuse system to an industrial user in the oil and gas industry in Alberta, Canada, was announced by H2O Innovation Inc on 8 March 2012. This was one of several contracts awarded recently and worth Can$ 2.8 million (US$ 2.83 million) to the Canadian company. H2O Innovation will design, Cadagua SA has chosen ultrafiltration (UF) pretreatment from Pentair X-Flow for the Al Zawrah seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. The Seaflex UF system in the new plant will produce 115,000 m3 /d of pretreated fabricate, deliver and install a Bio-Brane™ membrane bio-reactor wastewater treatment and water reuse system to treat sanitary wastewater from the Alberta client's work camp. This high-efficiency integrated fixed-film activated sludge and MBR system has been used for municipal or industrial wastewater treatment and water reuse applications around the world. X-Flow UF pretreatment chosen for Al Zawrah SWRO seawater to feed the RO system. The Al Zawrah SWRO plant, scheduled to be built and commissioned in 2012, will produce desalinated water for potable purposes. The EPC contract for the Federal Electricity & Water Authority was won by a consortium of Cadagua and a local firm. Evaporation contract for GE in Alberta GE has won its fifth contract in the Alberta oil sands of Canada for use of its evaporation technologies for recycling the blowdown from once- through steam generators (OSTGs). The latest award means GE's technology will improve wastewater recovery at an existing oil sands project near Fort McMurray. The facility uses steam from OTSGs to drive the steam assisted gravity drainage process for the production of bitumen, which is a heavy crude oil produced from oil sands. Amiad prefiltration for Australian projects Two contracts for prefiltration equipment prior to membrane water treatment and desalination have been won by Amiad in Australia." supply and commissioning automatic self-cleaning screen-filter technology for seawater reverse-osmosis membrane protection at the Southern SeaWater Desalination Plant south of Perth. The second contract is with Origin The larger US$ 8 million project involves Energy, for the supply and commissioning of Arkal automatic self-cleaning disc technology (Spin Klin Galaxy) for Origin's Australia Pacific LNG (APL) project. CONTRACT BRIEFS ____ For more details, visit www.desalination.biz __ ERI TO SUPPLY TWO S AMERICAN MINING DESALINATION PLANTS Two large contracts in desalination projects for the mining industry in South American were announced on 1 March 2012 by Energy Recovery Inc, which will be supplying its PX Pressure Exchangers to both projects. The Copiapó Valley project will be built by Acciona Agua and is owned by Grupo CAP. The second project was awarded by an undisclosed firm. Both projects are expected to be built in 2012. BEL LANDS KUWAIT DESALINATION SUPPLY CONTRACT Murcia-based BEL Composite Iberica SL has been awarded a contract by Veolia subsidiary OTV to supply pressure-vessels to the Az Zour South desalination project in Kuwait. BEL will supply 1,300 membrane pressure-vessels for the 30 MIGD (136,400 m3 seawater reverse-osmosis plant which is being built for the Ministry of Electricity & Water. /d) | 10 | Desalination & Water Reuse | May-June 2012 TORAY TO SUPPLY MEMBRANES FOR SINGAPORE DESALINATION PLANT Toray has won the order to supply reverse osmosis (RO) membrane elements to the 318,500 m3 Desalination Plant in Singapore. The project is being developed by Tuaspring Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hyflux Ltd of Singapore. Toray is scheduled to supply the RO membrane elements in 2012, and the plant is expected to start operations in 2013. /d Tuaspring CHILEAN POWERPLANT BUYS MVC UNIT FROM IDE Chilean power company Norgener (owned by AES Gener) has ordered an additional mechanical vapour compression (MVC) desalination unit from IDE Technologies to provide supplementary boiler-feed water to a powerplant in Tocopilla. The new unit will yield an additional capacity of 600 m3 Pacific Ocean source. /d of filtered water from a

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