ASI Messina deploys GE LEAPmbr wastewater treatment system

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ASI Messina deploys GE LEAPmbr wastewater treatment system

Greentech Lead Europe: GE announced that ASI Messina of
Italy has deployed GE’s LEAPmbr membrane bioreactor (MBR) wastewater-treatment
technology.

GE sold the technology to Costruzioni Dondi, an Italian
engineering, procurement and construction company that won the international
public open tender for ASI Messina‘s wastewater plant upgrade.

The ASI Messina plant is an upgrade of an existing
installation. GE provided Costruzioni Dondi the total scope of the LEAPmbr
filtration unit, which also includes a three-year service contract. GE’s
equipment will be shipped in phases beginning in September 2012. Commercial
operation of the plant is expected by the second quarter of 2013.

The new plant will be able to treat a yearly average flow
of 21 million liters per day (MLD), or 21,000 m3/d, with daily peaks up to
40,000 m3/d, which is equivalent to the daily water use of roughly 125,000
people.

The ASI Messina plant will treat wastewater
generated by two municipalities and by local industrial sites associated to the
ASI Messina Consortium. GE’s LEAPmbr technology helps ASI Messina address water
quality while reducing energy costs and increasing productivity.

“By using GE’s LEAPmbr technology, ASI Messina will be
able to reach the high effluent qualities imposed by the local authority and
will have the possibilities to reuse the treated wastewater for industrial
needs,””said Alessandro Rondina, technical director of Costruzioni Dondi.

GE’s LEAPmbr ultrafiltration technology will control
pollution and will help ASI Messina protect the environment through water
reuse, coast preservation and low energy consumption.

GE’s ultrafiltration technology offers high-treatment
efficiency and the best effluent quality of any advanced technologies. Based on
industry-standard GE ZeeWeed 500 MBR product line the most widely-used,
reinforced, hollow-fiber ultrafiltration technologies the system provides
minimum 30 percent reduction in energy costs and a 15 percent improvement in
productivity.

“Our LEAPmbr technology offers unique and advanced
features to solve many of these issues through ultrafiltration membranes that
are able to enhance the treatment capacity three-fold when compared to
conventional technologies, while at the same time reaching high effluent
standards at the lowest possible running costs,” said Heiner Markhoff,
president and CEO, water and process technologies for GE Power & Water.

GE to supply zero liquid discharge wastewater recycling
technology to Posco

Recently, GE announced its zero liquid discharge
wastewater recycling technology will be installed at the Posco Cold Rolling
Mill Steel Plant in Maharashtra, India in the second quarter of 2013. According
to General Electric, this marks the first steel mill application of a complete
GE ZLD system containing electrodialysis reversal. 

editor@greentechlead.com

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