Desalination Plant Using ERI Technology to Supply 350,000 People
in Venezuela
Energy Recovery, Inc. (“ERI”) (NASDAQ:ERII),
a global leader of ultra-high-efficiency energy recovery products and
technology for desalination, was awarded the 75,000 m3/day
(20 million US Gallons (MGD)) energy recovery technology contract from Acciona
Agua for the Paraguaná seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination
plant in Venezuela. The project is currently under construction and is
scheduled for completion in early 2010.
The plant is located in the Paraguaná peninsula in the Falcón region in
northwest Venezuela, an area considered to be one of the driest places
in the country. The project at Petróleos de Venezuela SA’s (PDVSA)
Paraguaná Refinery Complex is being designed and built jointly by
Spanish water company Acciona Agua and PDVSA. The Paraguaná Refinery
Complex will utilize approximately 30% of the production capacity, with
the remainder supplying a population of 350,000. This will be the
largest RO desalination plant in South America and one of the largest
plants in the Caribbean region.
EPC contractor Acciona Agua is designing the plant with ERI’s energy
efficient pressure recovery solution, employing 64 model PX-260
units. These devices will save the project an estimated 52 mega-watts of
energy per year.
This is not the first time Acciona selected PX technology for its
desalination projects. Europe’s largest facility, the 240,000 m3/day
(64 MGD) Torrevieja plant in Spain as well as the 100,000 m3/day
(26 MGD) Fouka project in Algeria, the 60,000 m3/day Tordera
retrofit plant in Spain and the 16,000 m3/day Arucas II
plant, also in Spain, are being built by Acciona using PX energy
recovery devices. These plants will supply fresh water for municipal,
industrial and agricultural applications.
Borja
Blanco, ERI Vice President and General Manager of the Mega Projects
Division stated, “We consider Acciona Agua to be a premier partner in
delivering energy efficient solutions in desalination. They have relied
on PX technology for many of their first-of-a-kind projects all over the
world.”
About
ERI®
Energy Recovery, Inc. (ERI) is a leading manufacturer of energy recovery
devices which help make desalination affordable by significantly
reducing energy consumption. ERI’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 (SWRO) 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. For more information on ERI and PX technology, please visit www.energyrecovery.com.
Energy Recovery Inc.
Audrey Bold, +1-510-483-7370
abold@energyrecovery.com
