Endress+Hauser is proud to be part of water treatment in Australia and in particular desalination.
"We have been a major supplier of instrumentation in the large desalination plants built in Perth, the Gold coast, Sydney and, more recently, Melbourne," says Chris Gailer, Managing Director, Endress+Hauser Australia.
When fully operational, the Melbourne plant will be the largest plant in Australia, supplying 150 billion litres of water a year to Melbourne and surrounding areas.
Endress+Hauser acted as consultants for the selection of technology and detailed engineering of measurements; for just over a year a company engineer was embedded as part of the project team.
Endress+Hauser also supplied all the instrumentation for the Grunfos dosing skids, and the Air Liquide CO2 plant.
There is some irony in Melbourne desalination plant, as high levels of rainfall have hindered its completion.
"Whilst the desalination plant might be under utilised in the short term, we see that providing irrigation to the city’s outlying areas, with continuous and substantial volumes of water, will create many opportunities for those regions," said Gailer.
"We also see that while Australia is unlikely to require any more big desalination plants, there are many remote regions in Australia that will benefit from smaller desalination plants.
"These will need to be more efficient and more customisable for specific regional requirements."
Endress+Hauser is a proud sponsor of the Water & Wastewater category in the 2012 PACE Zenith Awards.
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