INTERNATIONAL NEWS


Army uses Tsurumi for military precision


Toronto positions itself on clean water technology


Ontario takes a lead on water technology


A squad of 47 Tsurumi pumps are helping a new wastewater treatment system at a military training base in Bulgaria. The pumps, which were installed in March, are a mix of aerators, agitators, cutters, decanters and sewage pumps. Novo Selo Training Area (NSR) in Sliven needed the wastewater treatment system for up to 2,500 troops as part of an ongoing £45M development. The base is used by Bulgarian and occasionally US troops for tank shooting, infantry skills and mountaineering. Carsten Bode, product manager


at Tsurumi Europe, who worked closely on the NSR project, says: “Simple maintenance was the crucial factor in selecting the right pumping equipment. The base is very remote and we do not want to worry about the system breaking down and taking a long time to fix.” The pumps include 22 aerators installed as free-standing units within two biological treatment tanks. The remaining 25 comprise two cutter pumps, three decanters,


two agitators, four channel


impeller pumps and 14 vortex impeller pumps.


China calls for UF equipment


A major order from China for ultrafiltration (UF) equipment has been announced by Inge Watertechnologies, which is going to be taken over by BASF. The German company was selected to provide the Huangyong paper factory with a UF system comprising 800 Dizzer XL 0.9 MB 60W modules, installed in 10 T-Rack vario racks. The paper factory, run by Lee & Man


Paper Manufacturing, has an annual production capacity of 730,000t of corrugated base paper. Producing boiler-feed water for steam generation requires 65,000m³/d of ultrafiltrated water.


heavily


The raw water comes from the contaminated


Zhujiang


River. Before the water can be used in the production process, it must be cleaned using UF modules.


Renault driven to efficiency


A new Renault car manufacturing plant in Morocco is using Grundfos pumps to help meet stringent targets in the French company’s ambition to have a zero carbon site.


In partnership with Veolia


Environnement, the project includes ensuring no water


reaches the natural habitat and that consumption in the industrial processes was reduced by 70%. The


Grundfos products


include pumps, booster sets and submersible products. Grundfos says the products are all energy efficient, speed-controlled options.


12 Water & Wastewater Treatment June 2011


The provincial government of Ontario hosted the Canadian state’s first Global Water Leadership Summit in Toronto on 17-18 May. The event was a launch pad for Ontario to position itself as a water technology hub, akin to Singapore and Israel, and brought together clean tech investment and technology companies for a two-day conference. The participants


included government leaders, financiers and


entrepreneurs, mainly from Canada, USA and Israel. Leading water industry figures spoke about water scarcity, innovation and how to leverage financing.


Opening the event, Sheeraz Haji, president and chief executive of the Cleantech Group said that while clean tech investment was up 32%, sitting at US$7.9B globally, however “water is a thin slice of this – 3% in total.” Scarcity is seen as the great driver of innovation and where industries use water intensively and resources are constrained, such as mining and food, opportunities were identified by speakers including Hu Fleming, global director of Hatch Water. GE Water’s global food & beverage industry market director John Burns said direct wastewater reuse would be “the only way for some food and beverage companies to carry on.”


In a session on financing innovation, Lydia Whyatt, managing director of Aqua Resources Fund pointed to the huge potential of China; the country needs to grow at 29%. She said: “We believe there’s a big future for biological wastewater treatment, because it uses less energy.” Speaking at a lunch event, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty stressed the provincial government’s commitment to water clean water technology both to provide jobs at home and products and services for export: “Ontario is now emerging as a water technology powerhouse,” he said.


Artemis 50


The Ontario summit was also an occasion to announce the Artemis 50 list of innovative companies and showcase some of their technologies. Israeli company TaKaDu’s network management system and Vancouver-based Ostara’s phosphorus recovery technology, both adopted by Thames Water, reached the list.


The Artemis 50 is orientated around the North America-Israel nexus and featured only four European firms, including Irish wastewater specialist SCFI (see WWT Ireland, February).


Laura Shenkar, principal at the Artemis Project said: “The Artemis top 50 is the water industry’s benchmark for recognising innovation that will matter. It identifies the companies that are applying technology to meet the world’s water challenges. “Water tech is quickly becoming an engine for economic development


and job growth. With these awards, we strive to identify the companies offering the most promising technologies coming onto the market.”


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