Resources

This white paper covers the latest design advancements made to Energy Recovery's AT Turbocharger for desalination.

Awarded best paper at the 2016 SOGAT (Sour Oil & Gas Advanced Technology) conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE, this paper covers the installation of Energy Recovery's IsoGen turbogenerator solution in a gas processing plant in the Middle East.

This article, published in Gas Processing Magazine, details the benefits of the application of a liquid-phase turbocharger to the acid gas removal unit (AGRU), including significant energy savings and an improvement to the reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) of a plant.

This paper covers the potential of desalination to address drought conditions and the growing demand for water in California .

This paper describes conventional configurations with high pressure pumps and new configurations utilizing liquid phase turbochargers. Design of the equipment, process operations and controls and reliability analysis are included. The results of a RAM study comparing conventional configurations to those incorporating liquid phase turbochargers in multiple cases are also presented.

The CO2 removal process in ammonia production is a significant contributor to overall plant energy consumption. This paper presents a new turbocharger based solution. The use of a liquid phase turbocharger offers simplified design, compact footprint, rapid install and increased plant uptime with high efficiency across a wide range of operating conditions.

Durante el siglo pasado, la práctica del reciclaje de energía ha sido incluida en diferentes procesos industriales como un paso clave para minimizar lo que de otro modo sería energía desperdiciada. La mayoría de las industrias están familiarizadas con el concepto de recuperación de calor residual, donde el calor que habría sido disipado y desechado, es devuelto a los diferentes procesos industriales.

Learn more about our IsoBoost System and how Energy Recovery can help increase plant uptime (Spanish).

As the demand for energy efficiency mounts throughout the world, the need for disruptive technologies in the oil and gas industry is increasingly prominent. Energy Recovery’s flexible IsoGen® skid-mounted system provides natural gas producers and pipeline companies with a way to recover otherwise lost pressure energy.

Six years ago, we installed our energy-saving IsoBoost Technology at the 50 million cubic-foot-a-day Jackalope Amine Gas Processing Plant in Hebronville, Texas

A white paper on the long-term energy efficiency of China's largest desalination plants.

In September 2013, Cleantech Group hosted its second annual Water Innovation Summit and Energy Recovery presented and participated in creating this white paper.

As electricity production increases in China to keep pace with the nation’s rapid economic growth, power providers are caught in a bind: energy generation requires processed water, but desalinating seawater to feed power plants requires significant energy.

A white paper on the economics of downtime for seawater desalination plants.

Availability can be defined as the probability that a system or piece of equipment when used under the specified conditions operates satisfactorily at any given time. The availability of the equipment installed in a seawater reverse osmosis facility (SWRO) is extremely important to the price, quality, and quantity of the final product – water.

To ensure the lifetime of the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) process and its enabling technology, it is essential to use the most advanced and reliable materials of construction. One such advance in material science is that of the PX Pressure Exchanger employing high purity (>99%) aluminum oxide (alumina) ceramics.

A white paper on high efficiency energy recovery devices in desalination plants.

The Palmachim Desalination plant is one of the largest seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants in Israel with a capacity of 120,000 cubic meters per day. Built by the Via Maris Desalination Ltd. consortium, the plant consists of six (6) parallel SWRO trains, each with a permeate production capacity of up to 20,000 cubic meters per day.

Energy recovery devices are employed in nearly all seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants to recover pressure from the membrane reject stream and return it to the process.

The authors present energy-saving solutions for desalination water supply for mining applications. Detailed design data for the Uranium mining desalination plant are given. Environment and economic conscious owners and operators will learn methods of design and operation of desalination systems in mining, which can be easily extrapolated to many other industrial needs, and how to minimize the total cost of ownership of a desalination process.

A high recovery rate means a high process yield. However, in a desalination process, operation at high recovery results in higher average concentrate salinities in the membrane elements, higher osmotic pressures and higher membrane feed pressures compared to operation at low recovery.

Isobaric energy recovery devices (ERDs) have attained nearly universal acceptance by the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalting world. These devices are operating in the largest SWRO trains in the world and continue to be an integral component in small, containerized systems.