UAE awards desalination energy project to ERI

JEDDAH, August 8 (SPA) - Energy Recovery, Inc. (ERI), a global leader
of ultra-high-efficiency energy recovery products and technology for
desalination, announced on Tuesday that it has been awarded a
contract to provide the energy recovery technology for the Hamriyah
(Phase 1) Power Station Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Desalination
Plant by the United Arab Emirates.


Aqua Engineering GmbH and ERI have signed a supply agreement for PX
energy recovery devices for the 91,000 cubic meters per day (m3/day)
(24 million gallons per day (MGD)) plant to be located in Sharjah,
UAE.


The plant was awarded to Austrian company Aqua Engineering GmbH, a
subsidiary of Christ Water Technology AG, by the Sharjah Electricity
and Water Authority (SEWA).

The overall capacity of the Hamriyah facility will be 455,000 m3/day
(120 MGD) of fresh water by reverse osmosis technology and 181,000
m3/day (48 MGD) by a thermal desalination process called multiple
effect distillation (MED), according to a press statement.