MARKET PROSPECTS

2Pump Industry Analyst February 2013

Pump Company Index WATER & WASTEWATER

Dow and HidroLotus build surface water UF plant in Azerbaijan

Dow Water & Process Solutions and HidroLotus LLC are building

the world’s largest surface water ultrafiltration plant in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The plant, which is currently being constructed by HidroLotus, is projected to reach a daily capacity of 520 000 cubic metres. Work on the plant started in June 2012 and should be completed later this year.

Dow Water & Process Solutions supplied advanced ultrafiltration modules to help purify water from the lake in Ceyranbatan, Baku, and offered engineering services to support the complex water management cycle. The project will use Dow ultrafiltration IntegraPac skids and modules, a pre-engineered and ready-to-assembly solution, which will allow for faster assembly to meet the project’s delivery schedule.

“The plant, which is currently being built in Baku, leverages the know-how and worldwide experience of Dow Water & Process Solutions to contribute to make water safer, cleaner and more available with filtration, purification and separation technologies,” said Gergely Nagy, regional commercial manager for Dow Water & Process Solutions in Russia, Eastern Europe, Greece and Turkey.

“The Ceyranbatan project is not only the world’s surface largest ultrafiltration plant; this plant will be constructed within the shortest period of time possible,” said Tankut Güzel, project coordinator at HidroLotus.

Aquatech to operate central water treatment facility for shale gas

Aquatech, the wastewater treatment recycle and reuse

company, has been granted a permit to operate a central treatment facility in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA.

The facility, designed using Aquatech’s MoSuite set of technologies, will deliver a range of wastewater treatment and recycle services to the region’s shale gas producers and is currently accepting customer orders.

MoSuite is a combination of MoTreat and MoVap process units, a pre-treatment and distillation evaporator specifically designed to treat drill fluids, frac flowback, production brine and other wastewaters from the exploration and production of conventional and unconventional oil & gas. The suite of processing units delivers a tiered range of services including filtration, disinfection, solids handling, pre-treatment and evaporation concentration.

Aquatech says that its offering at the Tioga facility will provide high quality wastewater treatment that delivers consistent treated water quality and flexible water management solutions for the industry.

Envirogen pilots FBR technology in Israel

Envirogen, in a joint venture with Shikun & Binui Water Ltd, is to

perform a pilot-scale demonstration of its fluidized-bed bioreactor (FBR) technology for the remediation of perchlorate-laden groundwater at a former Israel Military Industries (IMI) site in Ramat Ha’Sharon, Israel.

The pilot plant will consist of two fluidized-bed bioreactors, a solids-handling system and an effluent polishing system. Influent loadings of perchlorate in excess of 400 000 micrograms per litre (μg/l) will be reduced to a guaranteed maximum of 4 μg/l, along with reduction of nitrates, chromates and the military explosive RDX to meet regulatory standards. The pilot project could lead to the development of a full-scale treatment system which would be one of the world’s largest perchlorate treatment installations at a site that is destined for residential development.

Suez Environnement moves into China’s Sichuan wastewater sector

Suez Environnement subsidiary Sino French Water Development

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