Energy Recovery
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Energy Recovery Inc. (ERI®) is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing energy recovery products and technology for seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination. The company’s best known product includes a line of PX Pressure Exchanger® energy recovery devices.
The company was established in 1992 with the goal of making seawater desalination affordable by reducing energy costs. Based on a rotary positive displacement pump principle, the PX® devices recover energy from the high-pressure waste stream of SWRO desalination systems. This technology can reduce the cost of water production to less than half the cost without energy recovery.
Today ERI works with over 80 OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) or engineering companies worldwide. ERI’s headquarters is situated in the San Francisco Bay Area; San Leandro, California USA with offices in different parts of the world including: Sunrise, Florida; Madrid, Spain; United Arab Emirates; Shanghai, China.
Hans Peter Michelet has served as the executive chairman of the board of directors of Energy Recovery since March 2008. As the executive chairman, he will play a role in investor relations and the determination of the strategic direction. Prior to being named the executive chairman of the board, Mr. Michelet had served as the chairman of the board since September 2004 and a member of the board of directors since August 1995.
Affordable Desalination Collaboration
The ADC mission is to demonstrate affordable, reliable and environmentally responsible reverse osmosis desalination technologies and to provide a platform by which cutting edge technologies can be tested and measured for their ability to reduce the overall cost of the SWRO treatment process.
The Affordable Desalination Collaboration (ADC) is a non-profit organization comprised of a group of industry leading companies, federal and state government agencies, and water districts, combining their efforts and sharing their expertise in a mission to demonstrate affordable, reliable and environmentally responsible desalination technologies and to provide a platform by which cutting edge technologies can be tested and measured for their ability to reduce the overall cost of the SWRO treatment process in which ERI is a founding member of.
PX Pressure Exchanger
The company prides itself of producing the technology that desalination companies will eventually use for seawater desalination.
The PX Pressure Exchanger, is based on a rotary-type energy recovery device (ERD) with only one moving part that recovers energy from the waste stream of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) systems and applies it to the low-pressure incoming seawater at up to 98% efficiency. At the core of the device is a ceramic rotor which avoids corrosion and has low vibration, providing maintenance-free and fail-safe operation. PX technology dramatically reduces costs associated with the energy intensive SWRO desalination process by up to 60% as compared to desalination plants without any energy recovery devices. The company said its devices reduce the process' energy consumption by about 60 percent.
To date, Energy Recovery had shipped over 6,000 PX devices to desalination plants worldwide, including in China, Europe, India, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, North America and the Caribbean.
The company's chief executive, GG Pique, previously served as the group vice president of US Filter Corp.'s Latin America operations before it was acquired by Vivendi.
Awards and Achievements
2006 - Energy Recovery Inc. was named Ex-IM Bank'S Environmental Exporter of the Year. Ex-Im Bank was proud to support groundbreaking small businesses which contribute to environmentally beneficial development in emerging markets while supporting high-quality U.S. jobs as said by their Bank Chairman and President at that time, James H. Lambright. And we quote him saying:
"As a model of such innovation, Energy Recovery Inc. well deserves this year's Small Business Environmental Exporter of the Year award."
2007 - ThinkGlobal/Commercial News USA Exporter of the Year award from ThinkGlobal Inc., publisher of Commercial News USA, the official export promotion magazine of the U.S. Commerce Department.
Energy Recovery Inc. provides seawater reverse osmosis desalination products which are saving 200MW of energy worldwide. The company reported a 165% increase in export sales from 2004. Exports now represent 59% of the company’s total sales.
Gregory Sandler, publisher of Commercial News USA, said that Energy Recovery’s success is indicative of how American companies can benefit from exporting.
“With 95% of the world’s market outside the U.S., there is significant growth opportunity for American manufactures and service providers.”
References
Hans Peter Michelet - Exceutive Chairman of the Board of Directors
ERI is a founding member of ADC | Affordable Desalination Collaboration
Energy Recovery Inc., of San Leandro, California, is named EX-IM Bank's Environemental Exporter of the Year
Energy Recovery discloses expected IPO terms
Energy Recovery registers for IPO
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World Business Review - Energy Recovery, Inc.