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Mesa Receives Statewide Permits to
Produce & Sell Groundwater
DALLAS, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesa
Water Inc. announced today that the Mesa Group landowners have
received pumping permits from the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation
District to annually remove up to one acre-foot of water per surface
acre from the Ogallala Aquifer beneath their private land in the
northeast Texas Panhandle. The water can be delivered to any
political subdivision or water authority in the State of Texas
designated to the District as required.
Mesa
Water is comprised of landowners in Roberts County that have
previously announced plans to market the water to higher-population
areas of the State that face long-term water shortages -- as far
away as North Texas, San Antonio and El Paso -- or as close as
communities in the Panhandle and West Texas.
"Today's decision by the
Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District basically gives us the
same rights granted in 1997 to the Canadian River Municipal Water
Authority (CRMWA) and in 2000 to the City of Amarillo," said
Boone Pickens, president of Mesa Water and also a Roberts County
rancher and landowner.
Under the terms of the local
District's permits, at least 50 percent of the Ogallala Aquifer's
1998 volume must remain in place in 2050, thereby assuring up to a
200-year supply. In addition to the approximately 150,000 acres
allied with the Mesa Group, CRMWA has 43,000 acres and Amarillo has
72,000 acres. CRMWA began pumping water from its well field in
December 2001.
The northeast Texas Panhandle is not
well suited for farming; only about 100,000 acres are under
irrigation out of 2.5 million acres in the four counties of
Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Roberts and Hemphill. Moreover, there is no
projected demand for additional water in the area due to modest
growth forecasts and the existence of the CRMWA and Amarillo
acreage.
"The Region A (Amarillo)
Planning Group declined to include our water in their 50-year
plan," said Pickens, "so this is stranded, surplus water
that can best be put to use in more water-needy regions of the
State."
He added that Mesa will continue to
study possibilities for using a portion of the water in West Texas,
while at the same time stepping up efforts to assess interest from
the other more populous markets.
Pickens said Mesa Water's pumping
permits are the most critical step yet in the group's efforts to
sell their water and that "we will now move ahead aggressively
to do just that.
"The permits put us on an equal
footing with CRMWA and the City of Amarillo in that we now have the
right to extract the water," he said. "These landowners
who did not have an opportunity to sell to CRMWA and Amarillo
earlier like some of their neighbors, will now have that same right
to realize the economic value of their water," he said.
"We've also been assured by
investment bankers of financing to deliver water to any of the
markets we've identified," said Pickens, "and engineering
firms have prepared studies showing that a pipeline can be
constructed to deliver the water at competitive prices."
Because of the significant costs
associated with removing and transporting water over great
distances, Mesa Water's marketing efforts have largely concentrated
on several of the state's most populous areas, including North
Texas, San Antonio and El Paso. Pickens said now that the production
permits have been issued, the group could be delivering water in
time to protect against anticipated shortages in those areas.
"We're
Delighted"
Trojan
Technologies Wins Contracts In China
LONDON, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May
13, 2002--As part of a massive effort to improve wastewater
treatment in China, it was announced today that Trojan Technologies
Inc. (TSE:TUV) of Canada has been selected to provide ultraviolet
disinfection systems to four municipalities in East China.
"We're
delighted to have won our first municipal contracts in China -- a
market where it is expected that up to $17 billion will be spent on
wastewater treatment infrastructure over the next decade," said
Trojan President & CEO Allan Bulckaert.
The four initial projects have a
combined value of $1.2 million. All are scheduled for installation
this summer, and together will treat a total of 242,000 m3 or 64
million gallons of water a day. Trojan was selected as the UV
systems supplier because of its proven ability to provide safe,
effective, and cost-efficient disinfection of wastewater.
While only about 13 per cent of
China's wastewater is currently treated, the government plans to
dramatically increase capacity so that 40-50 per cent is treated by
2010. It is estimated that some 2,000 wastewater facilities will
have to be built or upgraded to achieve this goal.
"It's an extraordinary
commitment, and one in which we believe Trojan can be a strategic
partner," Bulckaert added. "We have the science and the
solutions to help China dramatically improve its water safety."
Trojan is the global leader in the
municipal wastewater market. There are nearly 3,000 municipal Trojan
UV disinfection systems in over 25 countries treating a total of
more than 45 million m3 or 12 billion gallons of water each day. The
company has been serving the industrial-commercial market in China
since 1996, and has been active in Asia for the past 15 years.
Trojan's systems use a series of
specialized lamps that produce ultraviolet light. This UV energy
destroys the water-borne pathogens, including E.coli, giardia and
cryptosporidium. As well, UV does not form dangerous by-products
such as trihalomethanes (THMs). It is environmentally clean and
safe. There are no toxic chemicals and no risk of chlorine gas
leaks.
For more information contact:
Mr. Douglas Alexander Trojan Technologies, Inc.
Telephone: 519-457-3400
Web site: http://www.trojanuv.com/
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New Logic Develops High Temperature
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Emeryville, CA -- New Logic Research
has continued to advance the possibilities of Membrane Technology by
developing a new High Temperature Membrane Filtration System capable
of up to 120ºC with special materials of construction.
Viscosity
and Temperature are co-related. By definition, Viscosity is the
measurement of the resistance to flow, in other words, the
"thicker" a liquid is the slower is will flow. The
resistance to flow is an important factor during membrane filtration
and liquid solid separation. Higher temperature and reduced
viscosity as a result will mean a higher rate of transport through a
Polymeric Membrane surface. The membrane surface acts as hydraulic
resistance to fluids and will reject various suspended solids,
dissolved solids, or even ions. Reduced viscosity (a
"thinner" fluid) helps to overcome the hydraulic
resistance of the membrane and results in more throughput of liquid
for the same amount of membrane area.
New Logic's VSEP (Vibratory Shear
Enhanced Process) employs the use of oscillating vibration which
controls the effects of "diffusion polarization" that
limits permeation of conventional crossflow membrane systems.
Studies conducted by major Universities have shown that the VSEP is
capable of 5-15 times the permeate flux per area when compared to
conventional static crossflow membrane systems. The use of vibration
to control membrane blinding by suspended solids has increased the
numbers of possible applications of membrane filtration.
Liquid-solid separations that previously unattainable using membrane
technology are now made possible by VSEP.
According to New Logic's Greg
Johnson, "VSEP already has a significant advantage when it
comes to gallons produced per square foot per day due to the
benefits of Vibratory Shear. Now, New Logic has made significant
improvements in design which will add to the performance
possibilities of VSEP". Over the last year, New Logic has
developed a "High Temperature" Filter Module design.
Increased temperature means increased permeate flux. This is
generally known and employed in the filtration industry, however,
many membrane systems are limited in the temperature that can be
utilized. After months of work in the engineering and materials of
construction selection for its Filter Pack, New Logic has
successfully tested several versions of its new High Temperature
membrane technology. While most membrane systems are limited to
about 60ºC, New Logic's new High Temperature Filter Module is
capable of temperatures as high as 120ºC, double the predominant
temperature currently available.
New High Temperature Membrane
System
The viscosity of water at 45ºC is
0.5960 cp. At 90ºC, the viscosity is nearly half that at 0.3147 cp.
Doubling the temperature reduces the viscosity by half. This
corresponds to a linear relationship between temperature and
permeate rate-therefore, doubling the temperature will nearly double
the flux. With VSEP already performing at 5-15 times the rate of
conventional membrane systems, the ability to double the permeate
rate by increased temperature represents a significant advancement.
The ability to increase temperature
is significant in several ways. First, increased permeate flux means
less equipment to do the same job. The competitive advantage here is
a dramatic price reduction in terms of capital equipment costs. If
heat is available, fewer VSEPs are now needed to do the same job.
Second, for applications where the process feed temperature is
already very hot, no cooling of the liquids would be required. This
will reduce the cost of the overall system and also improve membrane
performance. Third, extremely viscous liquid-solid separations that
are only possible at very high temperatures can now be done using
membrane technology.
Greg Johnson suggests: "Just as
VSEP made it possible for many high solids applications to use
membrane technology for dewatering, now high viscosity applications
can also benefit from precise membrane separations" New Logic's
new High Temperature product is now available and in production.
Among the current applications using this new design is the
filtration of used crankcase oil.
For more information contact:
Mr. Josh Miller New Logic Research
Telephone: 510-655-7305 ext. 210
Fax: 510-655-7307 fax
Email: jmiller@vsep.com Web site: http://www.vsep.com/
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Mesa
Water is comprised of landowners in Roberts County that have
previously announced plans to market the water to higher-population
areas of the State that face long-term water shortages -- as far
away as North Texas, San Antonio and El Paso -- or as close as
communities in the Panhandle and West Texas.
"...details
the technologies used in water and wastewater management
today, including standard practice and state of the art."
Viscosity
and Temperature are co-related. By definition, Viscosity is the
measurement of the resistance to flow, in other words, the
"thicker" a liquid is the slower is will flow. The
resistance to flow is an important factor during membrane filtration
and liquid solid separation. Higher temperature and reduced
viscosity as a result will mean a higher rate of transport through a
Polymeric Membrane surface. The membrane surface acts as hydraulic
resistance to fluids and will reject various suspended solids,
dissolved solids, or even ions. Reduced viscosity (a
"thinner" fluid) helps to overcome the hydraulic
resistance of the membrane and results in more throughput of liquid
for the same amount of membrane area.