Enpar, Veolia to develop DesEl for municipal markets
2007-06-28 07:42 MT - News Release
Dr. Gene Shelp reports
ENPAR TO PARTNER WITH THE RESEARCH CENTRE OF VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT TO DEVELOP WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS FOR MUNICIPAL AND INDUSTRIAL MARKETS
The research centre of Veolia Environnement, which is dedicated to water, has decided to partner with Enpar Technologies Inc. in the further development of DesEl systems for the municipal and industrial market.
This announcement follows approximately 12 months of independent successful testing by the research centre of Veolia Environnement at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, Que., Canada.
Veolia Environnement is a world leader in environmental services. With more than 300,000 employees the company has operations all around the world and provides tailored solutions to meet the needs of municipal and industrial customers in four complementary segments: water management, waste management, energy management, and freight and passenger transportation. Veolia Water, the water division of Veolia Environnement, is the world leader in water and waste water services. Specialized in outsourcing services for municipal authorities, as well as industrial and service companies, it is also one of the world's major designers of technological solutions and constructor of facilities needed in water and waste water services. Veolia Water serves 108 million people worldwide.
The research centre of Veolia Environnement reports that the DesEl system has been demonstrated to be particularly promising for the selective reduction of nitrate, ammonium and probably arsenic, selenium, boron and fluoride in waters with less than 0.5 gram of sodium chloride (salt) per litre of water.
Furthermore, the economic limit in energy consumption compared with reverse osmosis is currently at 0.5 gram of dissolved solids per litre of water, which represents drinking water applications. The research centre further reports that the potential applications or economic limit could be increased by many fold with future developments in the technology.
Like the historical marketing cycle for membrane technologies which resulted in dominance of current water markets for management of dissolved ions, Enpar's management believes that the company is on the cusp of enormous commercial success that will be fuelled by large-scale manufacturing and continuous technology advancements.
Dr. Gene Shelp, president and chief executive officer of Enpar Technologies Inc., is convinced that the "promising results obtained by the research centre of Veolia Environnement at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal is an important step that will allow Enpar to gain market. Enpar will now focus on improving those economic factors that will quickly broaden the market applications and subsequently increase the intrinsic value of the company. We are very excited about the company's future opportunities and shareholders should be proud of what their company has achieved to date."
