Water & Wastewater Asia September/October 2021

NEWS
VEOLIA WATER TECHNOLOGIES
SETS UP NEW FACILITY IN
MIDDLE EAST
Veolia Water Technologies has
continued its investment in its mobile
water services offering through the
development and construction of
a new regeneration and recycling
service centre and mobile assets in
Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The facility
will regenerate and recycle the resins
used in the mobile water treatment
process, a key sector of activity for
Veolia.
The new Dammam service centre
marks another key expansion of the
company’s mobile water services,
and demonstrates its commitment
to invest to support its Impact
2023 strategy. The location will
grant access to regional industrial
manufacturing, supporting customer
operations throughout the Kingdom
as well as Qatar, Oman, Kuwait,
Bahrain and Egypt, providing them
with support through local access to
this service.
Besides the regeneration capability,
the centre will be equipped to
maintain, service and store all Veolia’s
mobile water services assets, spare
parts and consumables. A team of
people dedicated to this service will
organise, deliver, regenerate and
support these activities.
The company has also invested in
its Malaysian regeneration station to
expand its capability from a service
ion-exchange recycling business
to being able to offer Veolia’s full
ion-exchange range of mobile
water services. Located in Penang,
the service centre will be able to
support and help its customers within
Asia-Pacific region, starting with
Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The
expansion is planned to be available at
the end of 2021.
Veolia Water
Technologies will
enhance its mobile
water services
with investment in
regeneration facility
and new mobile
assets to cover the
Middle East and Gulf
region
NX FILTRATION SUPPLIES NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES FOR
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN INDIA
Aquarius H2O Dynamics has selected
NX Filtration to supply its hollow
fibre direct nanofiltration (dNF)
membranes for wastewater treatment
at the common effluent treatment
plant (CETP) in Jetpur in the Gujarat
province of India. This marks NX
Filtration’s second project for Aquarius
H2O Dynamics this year.
The system, based on 102 dNF40
membrane modules of NX Filtration,
will be used for the recovery of
caustic from the water intensive
textile industries at Jetpur. Caustic is
used for the purification of cellulosic
fibres, removing hemicellulose and
other impurities from the fibres, and
for higher quality dyeing and printing
operations.
Sandip Patel, managing director
of Aquarius H2O Dynamics,
commented: “Earlier this year we
piloted with NX Filtration’s hollow
fibre nanofiltration membranes for
various applications and already
integrated their membranes for the
industrial reuse of wastewater at
the KKCL denim jeans company.
This new application, for the
municipal recovery of caustic,
marks an important step for the
future of wastewater treatment in
India.”
The membrane filtration system will
enable CETP in Jetpur to recover
caustic from its wastewater streams
for reuse in the textile industry.
This not only saves spending on
caustic for the textile industry, it also
reduces treatment cost of caustic
wastewater and ensures compliance
with increasingly stringent discharge
regulations.
Manish Ghogle, sales manager
of NX Filtration in India, added:
“We are proud of this further
development of our relationship
with Aquarius H2O Dynamics. Our
hollow fibre dNF membranes enable
this simple and sustainable process
of reusing wastewater. Compared
to traditional wastewater treatment
methods, we reduce the number
of filtration steps, avoid the use of
chemicals in the pre-treatment of
the wastewater and significantly
reduce energy use.”
Current common
effluent treatment
plant in Jetpur, India,
that will be extended
with NX Filtration’s
direct nanofiltration
membranes
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