Energy Recovery, Inc. (ERI) (NASDAQ:ERII), a developer of energy recovery products and technology for sea water desalination, announced that the company’s technology has been selected by IDE Technologies for use in the Hadera Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination Plant.
The Hadera plant, located between Tel Aviv and Haifa in Israel, is currently under construction and is scheduled for completion in 2009. It will initially produce 100 million cubic meters per year (m3/yr), or 274,000 m3/day (72.3 million US gallons per day (MGD)) of fresh water and may eventually be expanded to supply 130 million m3/yr (94 MGD).
The plant is designed with ERI’s PX-220 Pressure Exchanger energy recovery devices. These devices will save over 34 mega-Watts (MW) of energy compared to operating without an energy recovery solution, ERI said.
IDE also recently selected PX Technology for the expansion of its 54,000 m3/day (14 MGD) SWRO desalination plant located in Larnaca, Cyprus. By utilizing advanced energy recovery technology from ERI, the plant will continue to operate the same high-pressure pumps and energy recovery turbines but will increase capacity and improve energy efficiency. The overall production capacity will increase by nearly 20% to 64,000 m3/day (17 MGD) while SWRO energy consumption will reduce from approximately 3.2 to 3.0 kWh/m3.
About ERI
Energy Recovery, Inc. (ERI) is a manufacturer of energy recovery devices, which by significantly reducing energy consumption is helping make desalination affordable. ERI’s PX Pressure Exchanger® technology (PX®) is a rotary positive displacement pump that recovers energy from the high pressure waste stream of sea water reverse osmosis systems at up to 98% efficiency with no downtime or scheduled maintenance.
The company has research, development and manufacturing facilities in the San Francisco technology corridor as well as direct sales offices and technical support centers in key desalination hubs such as Madrid, UAE, Shanghai and Florida. ERI service representatives are based in Algeria, Australia, China, India, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan and the Caribbean.
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