Quality Filtration Systems, a leading integrator of water solutions in South Africa will offer solutions for desalination, process water and waste water disposal in the mining industry driven by the memsys thermal separation process.

An intensive period of market evaluation in South Africa and neighboring states proved a high level of interest and a number of projects that would be suitable to the memsys technology. QFS will be the project leader and take on the functions of design, integrate and maintain the project whereby memsys will provide the core process modules and provides engineering support through its memsys TEC division.

“We are extremely exited about the possibilities of doing a lot of business in southern Africa as the potentials are very big and will even grow with environmental awareness” says memsys CEO Goetz Lange.

Herman Smith from QFS adds: “The memsys process fills a gap that has been left in zero liquid discharge solutions by it unique ability to effectively concentrate up brines to very high levels. In addition it is a beautifully robust system for all kinds of challenging desalination needs. The ability to utilize low grade waste heat or solar heat makes it even environmentally sustainable.”

The memsys process is a proprietary membrane distillation technology called Vacuum Multi-Effect Membrane Distillation. It is a thermal process using evaporation and distillation of the water to get to very good quality output. It recycles the thermal energy several times within the process and can be driven at low and changing temperatures at around 50 to 80 degrees Celsius. memsys technology be used in many applications, including desalination, treatment of wastewater, production of distilled water, and separation of different solutions.

Niranjan Sarda		Herman Smith
International Sales Director		Email: Herman@qualityfilters.co.za
memsys clearwater Pte. Ltd.
Mobile: +65 9108 5258
Email: niranjan.sarda@memsys.sg

 

 

The two companies will cooperate world wide on small scale units for potable water supply and process water applications driven by the revolutionary memsys process.

Aquaver presented on the Aquatech in Amsterdam the first commercial version of the 1 m³ and
12,5 m³ per day capacity desalination units. The words of Rob Hollering, CEO of Aquaver on this event: “The high level of development of the Aquaver units and the wide variety of problems this technology can solve has spurred a huge amount of very concrete interest. This has clearly motivated us to close this deal on a fast track”.

Over the last year memsys and Aquaver have collaborated on an extensive development program to create standardized water treatment units including control of the process, interfaces, pre and post treatment. “The joint team of Aquaver and Philips Innovation Services had a completely open view onto the possibilities of membrane distillation and stressed the units to its limits again and again. The result was that we jointly have been able to create vast improvements in performance and reliability over the last year” says memsys inventor Wolfgang Heinzl.

Aquaver is focused on integrated solutions based on the memsys vacuum membrane distillation process. It works in close cooperation with Philips Innovation Services to achieve technologically advanced solutions. It is its vision to be a front-runner in sustainable water supply solutions with the lowest costs of ownership and energy consumption yielding a maximum satisfaction to its stakeholders.

 

Niranjan Sarda		Enrique Mendez
International Sales Director		Marketing Director
memsys clearwater Pte. Ltd.		Aquaver
Mobile: +65 9108 5258		Mobile: +31 6 2371 7631
Email: niranjan.sarda@memsys.sg		Email: enrique.mendez@aquaver.eu

 

The Muelheim Water Award is going into the 4th round: The submission for 2012 starts in the beginning of next year. During the coming submission, applications concerning the topic “Progress in Water Supply and Sanitation” can be submitted from 1st Janu-ary 2012. The application period will close on 29^th February 2012, 12.00 a.m. CET.

The Muelheim Water Award, endowed with 20,000 €, is addressed to national and in-ternational applicants from all over Europe.

The coordinating office at the IWW Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wasserfor-schung gemeinnützige GmbH in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, is responsible for organising the award on behalf of the sponsors RWE Aqua GmbH and RWW Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerksgesellschaft mbH.

The Lord Mayoress of the city of Muelheim, Mrs. Dagmar Mühlenfeld, as patron, will conduct the award ceremony during the Award Dinner held in the course of the 5th Wa-ter Contamination Emergencies Conference (19^th - 21^th November 2012 in Muelheim an der Ruhr).

The Muelheim Water Award is given to outstanding projects concerning practical re-search and/or implementation of innovative concepts implementation of innovative concepts that contribute to an improvement of water management in Europe. This also includes engineering, planning and consulting services. The Award will be as-signed biennially.

Further information concerning the topic of submission as well as the application pro-cedure can be found on www.muelheim-water-award.com.

In 2010, the international jury has decided in favour of a project from Switzerland which was carried out by Prof. Dr. Thomas Egli from Eawag, Eidgenössische Anstalt für Wasserversorgung, a Swiss research institution under public law.

The objective of the project titled „Development of innovative methods for the microbi-ological analysis of drinking water based on flow cytometry and their establishment in practice“ was to develop fast and reliable methods to determine the microbiological quality of raw and drinking water; methods that also provide realistic information of mi-crobial processes that occur during treatment and distribution. Based on flow cytometry (FCM) Dr. Egli developed innovative methods for measuring the total bacterial concen-tration of cells (TCC) and of AOC. These methods were tested during an 18-months period at the Zurich Water Works for their usefulness and robustness in practice.

Contact
Coordinating office of the Muelheim Water Award
c/o IWW Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wasserforschung gGmbH
Moritzstraße 26, 45476 Mülheim an der Ruhr
Germany

Phone:	+49 208 40303-0		Fax:	+49 208 40303-80
E-mail:	info@muelheim-water-award.com		Internet:	www.muelheim-water-award.com

 

PRESS RELEASE MARCH 22ND, 2011

Jury nominates 15 international student teams for the participation at TUM DESAL CHALLENGE 2011.

For about a 100 students, the World Water Day 2011 on March 22nd was not meant to be an ordinary day – 21 teams from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain were anxiously waiting for the day of decision to come. They are highly committed and they all are willing to fight – not only to call attention for the increasingly urgent problem of water scarcity in many places of the world, but also to beat it systematically – not tomorrow, but today!

Their solution is sustainable seawater desalination exclusively by means of renewable energies. For the last few months the teams have developed extremely creative, innovative concepts for the construction of energy-self-sufficient desalination plants. They have sent in their ideas to the TUM DESAL CHALLENGE and now an independent jury of specialists, consisting of top-flight personalities both scientific research and industries, has selected the best ideas.

The jury is unanimously agreeing – the upcoming challenge in the end of July is going to be very, very exciting! The remarkable difference to the 1st challenge ever held in 2009 is above all the bigger variety of competitor teams and their technical concepts. The full range of desalination methods is represented: Membrane systems such as reverse osmosis plants, even membrane distillation, but also a large number of thermal systems, from the more classic “Improved Solar Still” over the humid air distillation up to exotics like the freezing method. This does not only show how detailed and technically adept nowadays young people deal with the solutions for providing drinking water, but also that they are ready to launch into new ways.