Industry Leadership
Humanity faces a global water supply crisis. Less than 1% of all fresh water is readily accessible for human use and more than 1.8 billion people lack adequate access to drinking water. As water extraction levels from rivers, lakes, and aquifers approach historically maximum levels, water scarcity remains a serious concern across the globe. Entire regions in North Africa, as well as Australia and the Indian subcontinent, are unable to meet the water demands of urban areas and local farmers.
To help mitigate this mounting scarcity, the process of converting seawater into freshwater emerged as a potential source of new and abundant supply. However, older methods of desalinating seawater consumed significant amounts of energy, and historically desalination has been an unaffordable, impractical solution for most regions.
Industrial applications outside of desalination also demand significant energy consumption to process the product or solution. The art of recovering energy from a core industrial application, whether in water treatment or in gas and chemical processing, is one that Energy Recovery Inc (ERI) has been able to lead on a global scale.
For more than a quarter of a century we have developed technologies that recapture the otherwise lost energy from fluids at the highest efficiencies possible – making desalination affordable. Our flagship technology, called the PX Pressure Exchanger™ (PX™) device, provides the highest efficiencies and guarantees the best economic solution in energy recovery for desalination. In addition, the low investment TurboCharger solution offers substantial savings and quality for those sensitive to upfront costs and where power costs are very minimal. ERI pumping solutions are efficient, robust and reliable. In gas processing applications, the innovative ERI gas processing solution delivers unique energy saving and reduced capital and operational costs.
To date, ERI is saving estimated 10 billion Kilowatt hours of energy per year. With installations on practically every continent, our energy recovery solutions are best suited for industrial applications that translate into energy savings!