Energy Recovery, Inc. to Deliver Unmatched Power Efficiency at Massive Desalination Plant Expansion in Australia
February 02 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ:ERII), a leader in the design and
development of energy recovery devices for desalination, today
announced that ERI PX Pressure Exchanger™ (PX™) devices will be
implemented at the desalination plant currently under construction
in Port Stanvac, Australia. The AdelaideAqua consortium—a joint
venture between McConnell Dowell Constructors, Abigroup
Contractors, ACCIONA Agua and United Utilities Australia—is
building the plant, one of the largest of its kind in the world. It
will provide 300,000 cubic meters (74 million gallons) of fresh
water per day to 1.1 million residents in Adelaide. Energy Recovery
anticipates delivery of its PX devices in the first half of the
year.
“ERI has been a part of the AdelaideAqua project since the
beginning, and we are proud to continue ensuring energy-efficient
desalination operations through this expansion,” said Borja Blanco,
senior vice president of Energy Recovery, Inc. “It is also an honor
to work again with ACCIONA Agua, and in the company’s first
Australian project, to help alleviate the nation’s water shortages
with affordable fresh water.”
Once running, the Adelaide facility will save more than 3,120 kW
of energy and offset more than 16,000 tons of CO2 annually by using
ERI’s PX energy recovery devices. Adelaide is the fourth
desalination plant in Australia to include the PX technology, with
ERI also holding contracts at three major facilities including
Perth, Cape Preston and Melbourne. In total, Energy Recovery is
helping to produce more than one million cubic meters (264 million
gallons) of fresh water per day across Australia. The Adelaide
plant is also the seventh project in which ERI and ACCIONA Agua are
collaborating to provide clean, affordable water. Additional
projects include plants in Algeria, Venezuela, and several in
Spain. Together, ACCIONA Agua and ERI provide 667,000 cubic meters
(176 million gallons) of fresh water every day.
“We have experienced tremendous results in terms of conserving
energy and resources when implementing the Energy Recovery PX
devices in our desalination plants,” said Luis Castilla, managing
director of ACCIONA Agua. “AdelaideAqua marks our entry into the
Australian market, and we are committed to its success as a
world-leading facility in terms of energy efficiency, environmental
sustainability and overall performance. Energy Recovery’s PX
devices are essential to ensuring this success.”
Energy Recovery's PX devices operate at up to 98 percent
efficiency and reduce the energy consumption of seawater reverse
osmosis (SWRO) systems by up to 60 percent, making desalination a
cost-effective solution for clean water supply. PX devices also
reduce the carbon footprint of desalination, saving more than 890
MW of energy and reducing CO2 emissions by more than 4.7 million
tons per year worldwide. More than 8,000 PX devices are currently
deployed or under contract to be installed at desalination plants
across the globe. For more information about Energy Recovery's PX
Pressure Exchanger technology, visit http://www.energyrecovery.com
or send an email to info@energyrecovery.com.
About Energy Recovery, Inc.
Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ:ERII) designs and develops energy
recovery devices that help make desalination affordable by
significantly reducing energy consumption. Energy Recovery’s PX
Pressure Exchanger™ (PX™) device is a rotary positive displacement
pump that recovers energy from the high pressure reject stream of
seawater reverse osmosis systems at up to 98 percent efficiency.
The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with
offices in key desalination centers worldwide, including Madrid,
Shanghai, Florida and the United Arab Emirates. For more
information about Energy Recovery, Inc. and the PX technology,
please visit www.energyrecovery.com.
This release contains forward-looking statements which are
subject to the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this
release include statements about plans for delivery of products to
the AccionaAqua consortium. Because such forward-looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties, Energy Recovery, Inc.’s actual
results may differ materially from those projected in these
statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially include, but delays in, or cancellation of, the plant
construction, changes plans to receive delivery of our products and
other risks detailed in the Company's periodic reports with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on
Form 10-K filed with the SEC in March 2009 available at
www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements are made as of today,
and the Company assumes no obligation to update such
statements.
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