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2019 ESG Report
Since our founding, we have been dedicated to delivering efficient and sustainable products for our customers. To further our commitment to responsible corporate citizenship and transparency, we released our first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report in 2020.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Enhanced Turbocharger Design in Desalination
This white paper covers the latest design advancements made to Energy Recovery's AT Turbocharger for desalination.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Application of a Hydraulic Turbogenerator in the Acid Gas Removal at a Gas Plant in the Middle East
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Optimize amine process design using liquid-phase turbochargers
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Desalination During Drought: Solutions to a Growing Demand for Water
This paper covers the potential of desalination to address drought conditions and the growing demand for water in California .Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Optimizing Amine Process Design Using Liquid Phase Turbochargers
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Improved efficiency and lifetime reliability with new hydraulic energy recovery design for CO2 removal
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.Read MoreDownload PDFDownload FileWhite Paper
Maximice el Tiempo de Operación en el Proceso de Endulzamiento de Gas utilizando Turbocompresores
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.Read MoreDownload FileWhite Paper
MAXIMICE EL TIEMPO DE OPERACIÓN EN EL PROCESO DE ENDULZAMIENTO DE GAS UTILIZANDO TURBOCOMPRESORES
Learn more about our IsoBoost System and how Energy Recovery can help increase plant uptime (Spanish).Read MoreDownload PDFDownload FileWhite Paper
Waste-to-energy in amine gas sweetening with the IsoGen: an innovative approach to recovering hydraulic energy
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.Read MoreDownload PDFDownload FileWhite Paper
When pressure energy becomes a reliable energy resource featuring the IsoBoost technology
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, TexasRead MoreDownload PDFDownload FileWhite Paper
China’s mega-desalination plant experience
A white paper on the long-term energy efficiency of China's largest desalination plants.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Accelerating & Sustaining the Water Innovation Ecosystem: What’s next?
In September 2013, Cleantech Group hosted its second annual Water Innovation Summit and Energy Recovery presented and participated in creating this white paper.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Desalinated water powers China’s economic growth
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
The economics of downtime
A white paper on the economics of downtime for seawater desalination plants.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
The advantage of reliable ERD technologies
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
The lifetime durability of ceramic PX energy recovery devices
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Highly efficient energy recovery devices
A white paper on high efficiency energy recovery devices in desalination plants.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Upgrading ERDs within an operating desalination plant in Israel
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
Brackish water desalination: energy and cost considerations
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
White Paper: Desalination and energy efficiency for mining in Namibia
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
White Paper: Permeate recovery rate optimization in Alicante, Spain
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.Read MoreDownload PDFWhite Paper
White Paper: Keys to High Efficiency, reliable performance and successful SWRO operations
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.Read MoreDownload PDF