Seghers Keppel Technology Group (SKG), the environmental technology arm of Keppel Corporation, has won a water treatment contract for its newly developed Unibrane Membrane Bio Reactor (MBR) technology.
Awarded by Fuji Film BV in the Netherlands, the contract involves the installation of its proprietary MBR system and a Reverse Osmosis (RO) system.
This contract marks the first industrial wastewater treatment plant in the world to utilise Seghers Keppel's industrial submerged MBR technology to treat wastewater, re-use the treated wastewater as boiler feed water, sell the silver salts containing bio-sludge to the mining industry and re-use the heat of the wastewater to optimise Fuji's energy efficiency.
Seghers Keppel will provide process engineering design, mechanical and electrical works, supply, erection, start-up and a one-year process support for the operation of the plant.
Apart from the wastewater treatment project, SKG has also secured two other contracts for its proprietary technologies and services.
The second contract is for the supply of its proprietary Fluidised Bed Rubber Denuding system to a US army tank tracks and road wheels refurbishing facility.
A market leader in advanced thermal cleaning solutions, waste degrading and bulk handling systems, SKG's Fluidised Bed Rubber Denuding system ensures that the rubber denuding process is fast, safe, user-friendly and environmentally-friendly with extensive flue gas cleaning.
The third contract, awarded by Eisenwerk Baumgarte Kessel-und Apparatebau GmbH, a boiler specialist, is for the supply of SKG's proprietary water-cooled incineration grate and Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) technologies in Germany.
Water-cooled grate tiles were developed to protect the tiles from thermal corrosion which arise when high calorific wastes are burnt, increasing the life span of these tiles. SNCR technologies reduces the NOx emissions (compound contributing to green house effect) through thermo chemical reactions, using particular reducing chemicals, leading to lower emissions of compounds which are harmful to the environment.
Together, the three contracts totalled $20 million.
The contracts secured are not expected to have any significant impact on the net tangible assets and earnings per share of Keppel Corporation for the financial year ending 31 December 2003.
Based in Belgium, SKG is a leading technology provider of engineering products and services to solve a wide spectrum of environmental issues including treatment of municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, wastewater, potable water and biosolids.
SKG has its own R&D arm to develop proprietary technologies in environmental engineering. It has the expertise and flexibility to meet individual client's need for comprehensive and cost-effective solutions while safeguarding the environment.
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