Desalination: Energy Recovery Solutions
ERI energy recovery devices and high efficiency pumps significantly reduce energy consumption for desalination and other industrial processes. The company offers the most efficient energy recovery devices in the desalination industry, reducing power consumption by up to 60%. ERI technologies, including PX devices ensure best-in-class, high availability operations that are free from costly, unplanned downtime- providing desalination plant owners and operators with the best economic solution available.
The impact of just one day of unplanned downtime per month can cost plants as much as $6.8 million in lost revenue over the lifetime of the plant. To avoid these expensive and unproductive occurrences, ERI customers rely on PX technology to insure 99.8% uptime. With a design life in excess of 25 years and the highest minimum, warranted efficiency at 97.2%, ERI PX devices save customers millions of dollars through energy reductions and maximum uptime.
The PX energy recovery device recycles stranded energy from high pressure fluids that would otherwise be lost in the process – at more than 96.8% efficiency. Through its commitment to delivering high performing, ultra-efficient and powerfully durable energy recovery devices, ERI has significantly changed the economics of seawater desalination.
The simplicity and modularity of the PX technology allows for optimum scalability with a quick startup and no required maintenance. With more than 12,000 installations world-wide, many in operation for more than 12 years, the PX technology is saving 10 billion kilowatt hours of energy per year, equal to more than $700 million dollars per year in energy costs alone.
In addition to its innovative PX technology, ERI’s prominence in the desalination market includes notable technologies such as the ERI™ TurboCharger hydraulic turbine energy recovery devices and the ERI AquaBold™ and AquaSpire™ high pressure pumps. In total, ERI has more than 12,000 devices installed in desalination facilities around the world.
ERI is the most recognized global leader in ERD technology, minimizing energy consumption in some of the world’s largest desalination plants. In regions of the world, such as Australia, India, the Middle East, Spain, China and North Africa, ERI is helping to increase the accessibility and affordability of drinking water to millions of people.