Network of DME at work! DME gathered industrial partners to realize the second solar driven thermal desalination plant, this time in Qatar. The first commercial plant of this kind has been built in Australia about one year ago. Since then tomatoes are cultivated in the connected greenhouse which is irrigated by desalted water and powered by the sun.

The latest German Solar Powered (CSP) Thermal Desalination Plant (MED-TVC) feeding greenhouses is situated in Qatar today. The first results are cucumbers!

Read more:

http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/SFP_pilot_tour

http://saharaforestproject.com/news/updates/the-first-cucumber-harvested-at-the-sahara-forest-project-pilot-facility-in-qatar/

       

Under the agreement Concord Enviro will haffe global exclusivity for using memsys technology in treating molasses water-water from the sugar industries. Both the companies have been working closely since the start of this year to evaluate this opportunity among other applications.

memsys provides a novel, patented thermal engergy based vacuum-driven multi-effekct membrane distillation system (V-MEMD) which is able to treat different feed waters and can run using waste-heat from industry to give a high qauality distillate. The robust technology is effortlessly able to treat waste feeds with high TDS content. Additionally as a membrane technology, it is compact, modular an energy efficient.

Over the past serval months, Concord Enviro has been testing the system with different feeds exposing in to high TDS, COD and BOD content and after extensive evaluations started discussions on partnering with memsys at a global level to tap into this market.

Concord Enviro (through its subsidiaries Rochem Separation Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. and Concord Blue Technologies Pvt. Ltd) has been active in the field of industrial waste-water and solids waste recycling for over 20 years. With installations in over 100 alcohol/ethanol/yeast based facilities and an overall 500 waste recycling systems operationsal, Concord Enviro will be close partner to move fast and develop a global market for this attractive segment.

Prerak Goel, Director of Concord Enviro, says "With Zero Liquid discharge an emerging need, the memsys technology enables us to provide clean, simple an energy efficient solutions to industries to reduce overall cost of recycling. Energy ist one of the main inputs here and the ability of multi-effect design in 6-10 effect even at low capacities is a significant game changer"

Between now and 1H 2013, memsys and Concord will word together to set up the first large scale fieldtest system in India followed by another set up outside of India. Concord Enviro will be playing the key role in designing, integrating and maintaining the waste-water treatment system and memsys will provide the core process modules and provide engineering supprt to Concord Enviro. Both the companies will be continuing evaluation of other opportunities in parallel.

"Concord Enviro immediately identified the potentials of the memsys process for treatment of organic waste waters. Their focused business strategy and the very professional and international team will fit greatly to our strategy and add another highly interesting appliction to MD technology" says Goetz Lange, C.E.O of memsys.

For more information, please contact:

Niranjan Sarda			Mr. Prerak Goel, Director
memsys clearwater Pte Ltd			Concord Enviro Sysems Pvt. Ltd.
Mob:	+65 91058258		Tel:	+91-22-67049000
E-mail:	niranjan.sarda@memsys.sg		Email:	prerak@concordenviro.in

                

memsys has started work on a 50 m3/day membrane distillation system based on its novel vacuum multi‐effect membrane‐distillation (MD) process. International Sales Director of memsys Mr. Niranjan Sarda: “This pilot will prove the viability of harnessing waste‐heat fro m industry and producing high quality distillate. The modular nature of memsys system will make it easy to scale‐up for higher capacities”

memsys has signed an MoU with Senoko Power Plant, the largest power supplier in Singapore, which will be providing the site for installation & testing the system for a 2 year period.

memsys has developed a novel, patented thermal energy based vacuum‐driven multi‐effect membrane distillation system (V‐MEMD) which is able to treat different feed waters and can run using waste‐heat from industry. At the Senoko Power plant, memsys will be using the boiler blowdown as a thermal energy source and will be treating the used‐water to provide a high quality distillate back to Senoko.

As part of the project, memsys will be working with leading global experts to study the fouling & scaling of membranes in MD over 2 years and will develop suitable maintenance strategies. In addition, a simulation study for venting of non‐condensable gases will also be conducted during the test run of the system at Senoko Power plant.

memsys will be working with Grünbeck, a leading systems integrator for water treatment systems to build the containerized system. “Our aim is to jointly build expertise with our integrator partner and with a successful project at Senoko, we prove compatibility and reliability of our revolutionary technology to many other industries” says Goetz Lange, C.E.O of memsys.

Mr. Tan Cheng Teck, Executive Vice President of Senoko Energy remarked: ”Senoko Energy is committed towards a sustainable future. I see this technology as a promising solution that will help us in reducing our water consumption. We look forward to working with memsys on this pilot project”

The project will receive a grant from the Environment and Water Industry Programme Office (EWI), an inter‐agency body that spearheads the growth of the water industry in Singapore.

“We are constantly looking out for innovative solutions to meet current and future water challenges. Technologies, like membrane distillation that look into harnessing synergies between water, energy and waste, hold the key to a more sustainable approach towards water management. Such projects allow us to extract the most out of all the resources that we have. At the same time, waste products such as low grade waste heat can be recovered as a useful resource,” said Mr. Harry Seah, Chief Technology officer
of national water agency PUB and Director of Technology Development, Environment & Water Industry Programme Office.

The project will end by February 2015.

For more information, please contact:

Niranjan Sarda memsys Clearwater Pte Ltd Mob: +65 91085258 niranjan.sarda@memsys.sg

Mr. Tan Cheng Teck Execuive Vice President Senoko Energy Pte Ltd chengteck@senokoenergy.com

                           

GE Sees memsys Technology as Potential Growth Vehicle in Shale Gas, Shale Oil and Coal Seam Sectors

TREVOSE, PA.—June 27, 2012—GE (NYSE: GE) and water technology developer memsys clearwater Pte. Ltd. entered into an agreement to jointly develop membrane distillation (MD) technology for the fast-growing unconventional resources marketplace, including shale gas, coal seam gas and other unconventional fuels recovered by hydraulic fracturing. Under the terms of the agreement, GE will invest in testing the technology and in return receive an exclusive license for the use of the technology in these applications. memsys is based in both Germany and Singapore.

GE’s extensive experience in thermal and membrane system design, and its extended research capabilities through GE Global Research, make GE a unique partner for memsys and its MD technology. For both companies, this agreement is spurred by the belief that the memsys MD technology is ideally positioned to support the rapid development of unconventional resource projects around the world and meet the rising demand for cost-effective water treatment technologies to reduce the environmental impacts of these types of projects.

 

MD is a low cost brine concentration technology that can replicate the conventional thermal evaporation process while using less energy and lowering the cost and the carbon footprint of evaporation. Decreasing energy consumption not only saves money and increases efficiency but also reduces emissions and has less of an impact on the environment.

"We are excited to work with GE in the unconventional resources segment," said Götz Lange, CEO of memsys. "GE is a technical innovator in the global water and power generation industries, which makes them a great partner to commercialize our MD technology for unconventional resource applications."

memsys has developed a multi-effect MD process in which conventional thermal process engineering has been transferred into an industrial design. As a thermal technology, memsys’ MD technology is suited to treat high saline produced waters found in unconventional resources production. Additionally, as a membrane technology, it is compact, modular and energy efficient.

"Memsys is the first company to develop a commercially viable, scalable solution for large projects using MD technology," said Jeff Connelly, vice president, engineered systems—water and process technologies for GE Power & Water. "Their technical expertise, combined with our own water technology leadership and business presence in the unconventional resource segment, make our agreement with memsys a unique, exciting collaboration."

GE’s collaboration with memsys was conducted through GE’s ecomagination Accelerator program. The $20 million ecomagination Accelerator program, a spin-off from the $200 million ecomagination challenge, is designed to scale offerings of leading start-up companies through GE as a global growth platform.

Both GE (Booth #P02) and memsys (Booth #J29) will be exhibiting their latest products July 1-5 at Singapore International Water Week, one of the world’s preeminent professional meetings for water treatment solutions in the world.

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For further information please contact:

Götz Lange CEO memsys clearwater Pte.Ltd. 82 Toh Guan Road East #2-11 WaterHub, SINGAPORE 608576 T: +(0) 151 116 71172, goetz.lange@memsys.sg www.memsys.eu

Nirjanjan Sarda International Sales Director memsys clearwater Pte.Ltd. 82 Toh Guan Road East #2-11 WaterHub, SINGAPORE 608576 T:+65 9108 5258, niranjan.sarda@.memsys.sg www.memsys.eu

For more information, contact:

Patricia Garofalo GE Power & Water +1 215 942 3598 Patricia.Garofalo@ge.com

Beth Coffman or Howard Masto Masto Public Relations +1 518 786 6488 beth.coffman@mastopr.com howard.masto@ge.com

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By ROBERTA FEDELE | ARAB NEWS

Published: Mar 27, 2012 23:23 Updated: Mar 27, 2012 23:23
 

The 2012 Gulf Environmental and Sustainable Development Forum (GEF) dedicated ample space on its closing day to the analysis of advanced water strategies and reuse in the MENA region.
 

President and Vice Chairman of Saudi Asma Environmental Solutions (SAES) Fadil Basyyoni, Advisory Board Member of the German Seawater Desalination Association (DME) Robert Flaechsig, Managing Director of DESERTEC Foundation (Germany) Thiemo Gropp and CEO of Suido Kiko Middle East Nizar Kammourie gave presentations with case studies to highlight the most advanced strategies for safe and eco-friendly potable water production.
Basyyoni opened the session stressing Saudi Arabia’s leading role as desalinated water producer and the country’s absolute need to preserve its scarce water resources due to the low average of annual rainfall and high evaporations. He then focused his intervention on the evaluation of potable water quality in building storage tanks and presented data from several studies implemented by SAES between 2007-2011.
 

“We collected 1,000 drinking water samples: Desalinated water from distribution points and truck tanks and drinking water from building storage tanks in urbanized and non urbanized areas. Water samples collected from truck tanks showed higher values of TDS, EC, turbidity, and nitrate due to the tanks’ inappropriate materials and poor maintenance. Also, drinking water samples collected from house storage tanks in non-urbanized districts showed higher values for all tested parameters,” explained Basyyoni.
Among the urgent actions required to ensure water quality, Basyyoni mentioned the necessity to ensure a better coordination between governmental authorities and adopt a pollution prevention program, effective monitoring procedures, strict regulations for water service vendors, best available techniques for truck tanks, efficient drinking water distribution pipe network, standard storage tank codes, awareness programs, and installation and maintenance of household plumbing systems.
 

The objective of Flaechsig’s presentation was to describe desalination strategies and technologies for potable water in the MENA region and outline Saudi Arabia’s urge to design the right solutions that will ensure quality living and national wealth for the generations to come.

“Population growth and development are causing water supply shortages and Saudi Arabia is in the heart of the most seriously affected zone. More, in general, all the countries in the MENA region are in urgent need to implement sustainable supply and demand management methods,” said Flaechsig.
 

“Mathematical models, taking various parameters and variables into account (cost, supply and demand types, minimum flow requirements, storage capacity), are at the core of decision-support systems for optimizing water allocation and management,” he added.
 

“Sun and land power are the other two assets available in the MENA region. The production of drinkable water through desalination is possible with a variety of technologies for large-scale and small power plants. In the MENA region the main solar technologies will be Photovoltaic and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP),” he said.
 

The issue related to the use of solar and renewable energies for water production was efficaciously handled by Gropp, managing director of DESERTEC, an independent foundation aiming at ensuring energy and climate security, resources supplies and socioeconomic development by addressing the civil society and the political, industrial and scientific community.
Gropp reminded the audience of the important challenges the world has to face from energy security to war for resources and climate change. He also highlighted Saudi Arabia’s potential to become a global leader in the transition to renewables and the production of drinking water from desalination of seawater by solar energy.
 

“One sq km of desert land using concentrated solar thermal power can produce up to 250 million kWh/year of electricity and 60 million m3/year of desalinated seawater,” explained Gropp.
 

“Solar energy in desert areas is highly abundant compared to fossil and nuclear resources. Saudi Arabia could sell all its oil on the world market instead of partially burning it on air conditioning, heating, transportation and desalination processes. The revenues could be used to finance the transition to renewables (mainly PV and CSP) and become a global leader in this field,” he added.
 

Kammourie contributed to the discussion and closed the session explaining all the procedures that since July 2011 led to the clean up of Nazeem Sewage Lake, a site 40 km east of Riyadh that has been used to receive domestic and industrial wastewater tankers during the last 20 years.
Covering a total area of 5.8 million sq m, the environmental project was considered one of the largest in the region.

http://arabnews.com/economy/article599303.ece
 

memsys has started a joint project with Prof. Choo Fook Hoong from the Division of Power Engineering at Singapore’s NTU. The project will focus on a membrane-based absorption Air-conditioning and Dehumidification System using Renewable Energy or Waste Heat.

With increasing importance on climate change, energy conservation and energy efficiency, the memsys design of a membrane-based liquid desiccant air-conditioning (LDAC) and dehumidification will have significant advantages over the traditional air-conditioning systems prevalent today with a key advantage: no wet surfaces.

memsys will be developing a novel all-plastic design based on membrane separation of liquid desiccant from the air in adsorption and membrane dehumidification. The dehumidification unit (dryer) will be integrated with a regeneration unit and an optimum controller for the air-conditioning system that would run using solar energy and low quality waste heat.

The project will explore the potential of this technology to generate a full quad-generation of power, heating, cooling & water production to provide district cooling. Singapore has been chosen for this project based on the commitment of the Government towards a sustainable and an energy-efficient future.

The project would be based in the new Cleantech Park in Singapore where a 50m2 room will be cooled with this novel technology.