http://www.industry.siemens.de/pressRSS Siemens I&S PressCopyright 2007 Siemens AGSiemens AG I&S PressWater/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1970&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies will supply a nine-piece odor control system at the 250,000 m3/d North Jeddah Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As the STP is located next to the King Abdullah Aziz Airport in Jeddah, the Ministry of Water and Electricity requested that odor control equipment be installed. Valued at more than US$2 million, the system will consist of three different technologies located at five areas throughout the plant. Once completed by year’s end, this will be one of the largest odor control installations in all of Saudi Arabia. Oct 30, 2009Water/Wastewater, Oil&Gashttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1965&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies will provide Zimpro wet air oxidation technology to treat wastewater at Sinopec’s Zhenhai and Tianjin ethylene plant projects in the Zhenhai District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and in Tianjin, China. The systems will be used to treat sulfidic spent caustic wastewater streams generated in the production of ethylene. The energy-efficient wet air oxidation systems will destroy odorous sulfide pollutants and generate a biodegradable effluent that can be discharged to conventional biological wastewater treatment. The Zhenhai system will treat approximately 18.2 m3/hr of wastewater; the Tianjin system will treat 14.5 m3/hr.Oct 20, 2009Water/Wastewater, Power Generationhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1957&languageId=2Siemens announces ESCO (energy service company) performance contracts are now available to municipal wastewater treatment customers in North America. An ESCO performance-based contract allows for an alternative funding method for a capital improvement in the wastewater plant that reduces energy use, operation costs, and labor. This is paid for from the guaranteed savings generated from implementing process improvements for the facility. Oct 12, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1960&languageId=2Effective October 1, 2009, Brent Hillier was named the new head of the U.S. arm of Siemens Water Technologies. By creating a business exclusively for the American market under Siemens Industry Inc., Siemens Water Technologies can better address its strongest market. “We want to concentrate more intensely than before on our customers in North America and support them with solutions that will help them master the coming challenges of environmentally compatible water management,” says Chuck Gordon, CEO of Siemens Water Technologies. Oct 12, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1958&languageId=2Costs associated with treatment and disposal of biosolids can be half of a communities’ operations budget. As cash-strapped cities are looking for ways to reduce costs, water technology providers such as Siemens are providing answers to reduce the cost of biosolids management, while providing a sometimes unexpected boost to the bottom line. Moreover, communities are finding that in addition to reduced operations costs, they have less waste and use less energy—a big benefit for the environment. Oct 12, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1959&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies announces the Full Service Odor Control Program approach to helping wastewater collection and treatment facilities control odors at the lowest lifecycle cost. With a wide range of odor control technologies for the liquid and the vapor phase, Siemens can provide a single product or combination of equipment and treatment methods as well as customized service contracts that ensure long equipment life. Rather than take a “one size fits all” approach, Siemens treats every customer site and application as unique, making treatment recommendations based on data collected at the site. The final treatment solution may include one or more odor control products to achieve the best results in the most cost effective way. Oct 12, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1962&languageId=2Siemens has been awarded the contract to provide process equipment, design and start-up services for a wastewater treatment system at the Pearl Valley Cheese, Inc. production facility in Fresno, Ohio. The system will be designed to convert waste material generated during cheese production into a reusable biogas generated in the wastewater treatment process. This renewable energy approach allows Pearl Valley Cheese to receive a state funding grant, and reduces the amount of natural gas required to operate the facility’s boilers, which are used for providing steam for the cooking, cleaning and pasteurizing processes. The 50,000-gallon-per-day (GPD) (189,000 LPD) system, which will be able to handle a variety of waste streams and still meet effluent requirements, is scheduled for start up in the summer of 2010.Oct 12, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1953&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies & Engineering (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (SWTE) signed a 42 million Renminbi (approx. 4.2 million Euro) contract with Tianjin Capital Environmental Protection Group Co., Ltd. in China (TCEPC) to provide a Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) system for upgrading and retrofitting the facilities of Tianjin Xianyang Road Wastewater Treatment Plant (Xianyang Road WWTP) in Tianjin, China. The BNR system will be designed to treat 450,000 m3 per day and to significantly improve the effluent discharge standard of Xianyang Road WWTP from the national standard of Class II to Class I. The project is scheduled for start up in April 2010.Sep 25, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1945&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies and MyCelx Technologies Corporation (Gainesville, Georgia, USA) have reached an exclusive distributorship and service agreement to promote oil removal technology in Saudi Arabia. Siemens will use its sales and service organization in Saudi Arabia to distribute and support the MyCelx product line, which includes proprietary advanced coalescer and oil removal technology, as well as proprietary filtration media. Sep 01, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1937&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies received a contract from Wuxi Water Supply General Company in China’s Jiangsu Province to supply a turnkey water treatment solution for Wuxi Zhongqiao Water Supply Co., Ltd. Centerpiece of the solution will be a Memcor ultra filtration membrane system. It will produce 150,000 m3 per day high quality drinking water for the residents of Wuxi, making it one of the largest membrane-based drinking-water treatment projects in China. The order volume amounts to 40 million Renminbi ( approx. 4.2 million Euro). The plant is scheduled to start up at the beginning of 2010.Aug 04, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1935&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies has commissioned a produced water treatment system for a major oil company’s site in Western U.S. The system, consisting of on-site mobile equipment and services, recycles flowback water through the treatment process to provide a source of “frac” water for reuse. Sized for 6,000 barrels per day (bpd), the mobile system consists of a flotation unit, media filtration and cartridge filtration. The heart of the system is the Veirsep system; a horizontal flotation system that incorporates several unique technologies to separate oil, grease and suspended solids from the flowback stream. The system also supports the customer’s green objectives by conserving fresh water and avoiding greenhouse gas emissions.Jul 27, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1922&languageId=2Siemens has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract by The Benham Companies to provide a process water system for Dr. Pepper Snapple Group’s (NYSE: DPS) new bottling plant in Victorville, California. The treated water will be used to make purified bottled water and a variety of soft drinks. The 1,200-gpm (273-m3/hr) system will include media and carbon filtration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet disinfection, and is designed to recover more than 90% of the water. Siemens will design, install and start up the system, which is scheduled for commissioning in early 2010.Jul 08, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1921&languageId=2Siemens has introduced an effective method for removing total organic carbon (TOC) in point-of-use (POU) ultrapure water treatment systems for semiconductor applications. This proprietary advanced oxidation process, referred to as the VANOX POU system, will consistently reduce TOC to 0.5 parts per billion (ppb) and can treat seasonal TOC variations in feed water. This is important, since TOC elevations above 1.0 ppb can directly affect the manufacturing process, significantly impacting product yields. Jul 06, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1920&languageId=2In order to simplify measurement and control of the water quality in swimming pools and spas, Siemens Water Technologies is now offering a new software update for the Depolox Pool measurement and control system. The update provides greater flexibility in adapting the DIN contact – which passes on information on the hygiene parameters to the swimming pool control system – to the regulations applicable at the place of use. Moreover, it is now easier to combine the Depolox electronics module with any Depolox measuring modules. The software update also enables additional links to fieldbus systems and therefore supports data exchange with higher-level systems as well. The Version 2.10 software update can now be downloaded from the Internet for free.Jul 03, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1916&languageId=2SFC, MFC and Depolox Pool measuring and control systems from Siemens Water Technologies can now be easily connected to plant level PLC systems via optional fieldbus modules. This reduces the overhead wiring considerably. Whereas data exchange from the instrumentation to plant level PLC systems has previously relied on available 4-20 mA outputs, the fieldbus modules expand this communication to a greater number of read and write functions.Jun 26, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1911&languageId=2“The Asia Pacific region is like no other from a water perspective. It is a region that faces some of the most serious water and climate issues juxtaposed with the leading, and most innovative, water research and development in the world,” said Chuck Gordon, President and CEO of Siemens Water Technologies at the Singapore Water Week (SIWW) held June 22-26.Jun 22, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1912&languageId=2The VertiCel Process, an advanced biological nutrient removal technology from Siemens Water Technologies, has seen increased recognition in the Chinese municipal wastewater market. North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute (NCMEDRI) and Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute (TMEDI) have recently accepted the process technology and selected it for their respective municipal wastewater treatment plant up-grade projects. The energy-efficient wastewater process not only meets stringent effluent requirements of China’s new Class 1A standards for nitrogen and phosphorus removal, but is engineered to save space and energy. Jun 22, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1913&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies announces the new Ionpure VNX-HH electrodeionization (EDI) module, which represents a significant advancement in feed water hardness tolerance, to 2 parts per million (ppm) as CaCO3 – a hardness level that is four times the industry standard of 0.5 ppm. This feature provides options for treating difficult feed water, and offers considerable capital cost savings by eliminating the need for two-pass reverse osmosis (RO) in many applications. Jun 22, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1907&languageId=2The city of Montreal is replacing its chlorine gas disinfection systems with eleven OSEC B-Pak sodium hypochlorite generation systems from Siemens Water Technologies at two of the city’s largest water treatment plants (WTPs) – Atwater and Charles J. Des Baillets. A local consortium comprised of Filtrum Inc. and Siemens will provide the design, supply, installation, commissioning, and training of the multi-million dollar OSEC systems, which mark the largest such installations in Canada. These systems will help the city comply with new stringent government regulations for drinking water quality. Jun 15, 2009Water/Wastewaterhttp://www.industry.siemens.de/press/Details.aspx?pressArticleId=1903&languageId=2Siemens Water Technologies introduces the Protegra CS water system that combines reverse osmosis (RO) and continuous electrodeionization (CEDI) technologies to produce consistent ASTM Type II pure water quality from a soft water source. Available in four models with flow rates from 120 to 750 liters per hour, the Protegra CS system can supply pure water to an entire building or to one laboratory with multiple points of use. May 26, 2009