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Pump Engineering, Inc. Announces Contract Award for Military RO Project Posted 05/08/06
PEI has been awarded the contract to supply energy recovery devices for TWPS 1500 Tactical Water Purification System. These TWPS systems are mobile reverse osmosis systems designed to be air dropped into the field to produce dinking water for deployed troops. The awarding of this contract is the fruition of three years of effort in meeting the US Army specification for the best quality energy recovery device at a competitive price. The scope of supply is 371 HTCII-50 TurboChargers over the next three years. The contract value is nearly $3 Million. Other PEI military projects are units for the RO plant expansion at the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and new water making RO plants for the USS Detroit class of fast ammunition/oiler replenishment ships
PEI has been in the reverse osmosis energy recovery business for fourteen years. Over the years more and more companies and countries are becoming aware of the need to reduce process cost by recovery of waste energy. Because of this, PEI is experiencing an influx of orders from new markets for its Hydraulic Turbocharger energy recovery turbo-pump.
For instance, PEI is currently finalizing its first large retrofit order for the first of seven HTCII-1800 TurboChargers from energy rich Saudi Arabia. In March, PEI President Robert Oklejas and PEI Application Engineering Lindsay Reau visited Saudi Aramco’s Petroleum Processing Plant in Tenajib, Saudi Arabia to meet with plant operators and engineers. Each Turbocharger installed there will save over 500 kW. The energy savings for the entire Tenajib plant will be 3,500 kW. PEI is working on other retrofits in Saudi Arabia where the energy savings will be in the tens of thousands of kW.
In the United States and Canada our Hydraulic TurboCharger is finding a new market in the natural gas and hydrocarbon processing industries. A beta site gas processing installation is being developed at MichCon’s gas processing plant at Gaylord, MI. Duke Energy will use another unit in a Texas gas facility. Because of low energy cost the United States has been traditionally the most reluctant market for energy recovery and conservation equipment. This is changing and PEI expects the trend to address energy cost will continue to strengthen in the coming years as traditional sources of fossil fuels become increasingly more expensive.
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Pump Engineering, Inc., with its headquarters in Monroe, Michigan manufactures and sells energy recovery hydraulic turbochargers for the brackish and seawater reverse osmosis, gas processing, and hydrocarbon processing industries on a world wide basis. The company has shipped, since its introduction in 1989, more than 2,200 hydraulic turbochargers.
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