inge AG Multibore® Membrane Utilized At Chinese Power Plant
Membrane used as preatreatment for desalination process in 900 m³/h project
Greifenberg, Germany — inge AG, the German based membrane manufacturer of patented Multibore® ultrafiltration technology has been awarded to provide its advanced membrane technology to HenYung Power Plant Project in Guangdong Province in Southern China.
From next year´s spring on the inge membranes will treat 900 m³/h river water (sometimes influenced by sea water) to provide efficient water quality for the boiler feed water that is used to drive the turbines of the power plant generators. The process combines ultrafiltration technology followed by reverse osmosis technology to purify the water to such a high level that the following process of vaporisation leads to least sludge deposit.
China currently is planning and constructing more than 500 power plants due to the lack of energy in some rural areas and the increasing demand of energy of industry and people in highly-developed areas around the big cities. "Considering the fact that nearly all of them might need membrane processes for their feed water system, you can easily imagine the related market potential and the importance of this reference for our China activites", emphazises Wolfgang Distler, inge AG´s Chairman of Supervisory Board.
The project located near the coast of Southern China is a retro-fit of an existing power plant that houses 2x 300 MW (mega wattes) coal fired steam turbine generators for which the enduser decided to upgrade its water treatment process by implementing membrane technology.
The partner of inge in HenYung Power Plant project is WuHan KaiDi Water services, an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) with long history in the power plant market. Both parties worked jointly on the design for several months. KaiDi will be managing and supplying the total process of the Ultrafiltration-Reverse Osmosis-EDI project. Work on the project is already underway and expected commissioning of the newly designed plant is in February 2006.
"We are very excited about this project, which is a huge reference for our young company in one of the largest markets of the world", says CTO Dr.-Ing. Peter Berg. "Our patented Multibore® membrane will ideally enhance and extend the life of the reverse osmosis (RO) membranes which are particulary used in sea water desalination. And as sea water desalination plays a significant role and resource to overcome the lack of water in the future, we are pretty confident that this reference plant will open us the door to other major large-scale projects, either related to power plant or to reverse osmosis preatreatment in general."
SOURCE: inge AG