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Filtration+Separation July/August 2012

Calgon Carbon wins 10-year reactivation services contract

Pentair X-Flow supplies membranes for SWRO in UAE

New CEO for Mann+Hummel in Asia-Pacific

BHS-Sonthofen delivers 1000th rotary pressure filter

Calgon Carbon Corp has signed a ten-year contract with the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA to provide reactivation services for activated carbon used to treat the city’s drinking water.

Approximately 6 million pounds of spent activated carbon is expected to be reactivated annually.

Scottsdale is using granular activated carbon (GAC) to comply with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) disinfection byproducts regulations. The GAC removes organic compounds from the water, reducing the formation

of byproducts after the addition of chlorine.

This is the second ten-year reactivation services contract that Calgon Carbon has secured in Arizona this year. In March, the company signed a ten-year contract with the city of Phoenix, Arizona.

Calgon Carbon is currently constructing a reactivation facility in Gila Bend, Arizona, which is expected to be completed in 2013. The new facility will have an annual reactivation capacity of approximately 25 million pounds.

www.calgoncarbon.com

Pentair X-Flow has received an order to supply Seaflex 55 ultrafiltration (UF) membranes and skids to a Federal Electricity & Water Authority (FEWA) Seawater Reverse Osmosis plant in Ghallilah, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

The X-Flow UF membranes were selected to provide pretreatment for the RO membranes. They will be installed with an inline configuration, which lowers energy consumption and helps avoid contamination as additional pumps and storage tanks are

eliminated. Operating costs are also reduced as cartridge filters are not needed with the design.

The FEWA project will be executed by Aquatech Eastern on a complete engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) basis including civil works, buildings, balance of plant, and electrical and mechanical installation. The 68 000 m3/day drinking water plant is scheduled to be operational late next year.

www.pentair.comwww.x-flow.com

Mann+Hummel’s Asian-Pacific business has a new CEO.

Josef Parzhuber, previously vice president of Mann+Hummel’s Water Filtration business unit, takes over from Patrick Cudmore who moves to head up the group’s water filtration division.

Parzhuber joined Mann+Hummel in 2011 and has 20 years of experience in the automotive industry, including seven in China.

When Cudmore came to China five years ago, Asia accounted for just 4% of group sales. Today,

Asia Pacific generates 17% of Mann+Hummel’s revenue.

Parzhuber will further expand Mann+Hummel’s Asia Pacific automotive, industrial OEM and aftermarket businesses, with the aim of increasing sales from 17% to 25% of group turnover by 2018. Group sales are expected to grow to at least €3.4 billion by 2018.

Cudmore is now tasked with developing the Water Filtration unit into a significant business for the Mann+Hummel group.

www.mann-hummel.com

BHS-Sonthofen employees celebrate the delivery of the 1000th rotary pressure filter.

BHS-Sonthofen has delivered its one-thousandth rotary pressure filter since the company established its Filtration Technology division in the 1950s.

The 1000th filter was supplied to an Asian manufacturer of cellulose derivatives.

Sonthofen, Germany-based BHS-Sonthofen has been manufacturing the patented filter system since 1954. The company’s filter range also includes indexing belt filters, rubber belt filters, autopresses and candle filters.

www.bhs-sonthofen.de

Fluor wins Sasol tar separator replacement contract

Fluor Corp is to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the replacement of 24 duplex stainless steel separator tanks for Sasol Technology Pty Ltd’s Tar Separator Project in South Africa.

The tar separators feed all four phases of Sasol’s Secunda complex.

The gas liquor separation units separate gaseous, liquid and solid

components from the gas liquor streams that originate in the gasification, gas cooling, rectisol and phenosolvan units.

Engineering is already underway with construction set to begin in the fourth quarter of 2012.

The 24 separation units weigh between 80 and 100 tons each.

www.fluor.com

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