Modern Water Installs Technology at Chinese Desalination Plant
Source Modern Water plc
Modern Water plc announced that it has secured a sale of its proprietary Forward Osmosis (“FO”) technology for seawater desalination to Hangzhou Water Treatment Technology Development Center Co. Ltd in China. The company will license its patented FO technology and provide engineering knowledge to Hangzhou Water.
The technology will be used in a new 500 m3 per day seawater desalination plant to be built at the Shengsi Seawater Desalination Base on Sijiao Island. Hangzhou Water is one of the region’s providers of water desalination. Through its ultimate parent, the China National Chemical Corp., it is part-owned by the Chinese government.
Modern Water will receive license fees in the short term and commissioning fees for supervising commissioning of the plant, as well as selling Hangzhou Water specialized equipment and spares on a long-term basis. Hangzhou Water anticipates that the new desalination plant will be completed and commissioned into service in early 2018.
This is the first example of Modern Water’s platform FO process being deployed in China. In this case, the technology is being used to produce desalinated water, where, compared to conventional processes, it will reduce membrane fouling and as a result, require less energy consumption. The process produces a high-quality product water on a long term basis, with a double membrane barrier between the seawater and the desalinated water. These advantages reduce the operating costs for Hangzhou Water, as well as helping to mitigate any environmental impact of the operation.
“The first sale of our Forward Osmosis desalination system in China, to an organization of Hangzhou Water’s caliber, represents exciting progress for us. We believe it is proof that our revised strategy to license our membrane technologies to high-quality industrial partners in key geographies is paying off,” said Simon Humphrey, CEO of Modern Water. “We look forward to working with Hangzhou Water on this project and will continue to pursue further opportunities to commercialize the innovative technology we have created.”
Source: Modern Water plc