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Ahlstrom-Munksjö has signed a 100 million face mask material contract with the French government's Resilience program in the fight against coronavirus. During May, Ahlstrom-Munksjö will produce material equivalent to 100 million face masks for French civil servants who are in contact with the public such as police, prison administration and social workers as well as companies active in essential sectors like food, energy, water and waste. Ahlstrom-Munksjö's Reliance SMS 200, Reliance SMS 300, Reliance Dextex 200 and Reliance Dextex 300 products have been declared compatible with French requirements for face masks used by professionals who are in contact with the public. “The attainment of this long-term work for the selection of our products represents a moment of collective pride at Ahlstrom-Munksjö,” said Lionel Bonte, vice president of Ahlstrom-Munksjö's Medical business. Ahlstrom-Munksjö has eight productions sites, two global R&D centres and a sales office in France employing 1600 people.
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Sulzer Chemtech's agitated Kühni column (ECR) for liquid-liquid extraction is being used by pharmaceutical manufacturer Farmhispania to increase production capacity of drugs to treat critically ill Covid-19 patients. Working with Sulzer, Farmhispania has been able to significantly increase its production capabilities in less than two weeks. To ensure a prompt delivery to Farmhispania, Sulzer used its available stock to build an ECR and ship it the day after the contract was awarded. Sulzer is also supporting the equipment installation and start-up, to speed up production.
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Centrisys Corp is supplying five decanter centrifuges and one spare rotating assembly unit for an upgrade and expansion at Inland Empire Utilities' Regional Water Recycling Plant No 5 (RP-5) in Chino, California. The five custom CS30-4DT decanter centrifuges and spare rotating assembly unit will be designed, engineered and built in the US with shipment and installation planned for July 2022. The Centrisys CS30-4DT decanter centrifuge offers feed capacity up to 600gpm, design flow for maximum removal efficiency up to 380gpm, total installed power of 190HP and air/oil auto lube system. The RP-5 upgrade and expansion will increase liquid treatment to 30 million gallons per day (mgd) using membrane bioreactor (MBR) and ultraviolet (UV) disinfection processes, and will expand the biosolids management system to 40 mgd, including thickening, anaerobic digestion and dewatering, and potential food waste treatment. RP-5's increased biosolids treatment capacity will replace the Regional Water Recycling Plant 2, allowing that facility to be decommissioned. Infrastructure engineering firm Parsons is providing the plant upgrade and expansion design and engineering support.
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Outotec has won a E15 million contract to deliver minerals processing technology for First Majestic Silver Corp's mill optimization projects in Mexico. The Outotec scope covers the design and delivery of an autogenous (AG) mill, counter current decantation thickener and a tailings filter for the San Dimas Silver/Gold Mine, and thickeners and a tailings filter for the Santa Elena Silver/Gold Mine. The deliveries are expected to take place in 2020 and 2021. Outotec has previously supplied Outotec HIGmill high-intensity grinding mills to First Majestic. “We are pleased to continue working with First Majestic in these projects. The energy efficient AG mill and environmentally sound thickeners and tailings filters will enable First Majestic to improve plant operations in a sustainable way,” said Paul Sohlberg, head of Outotec's Minerals Processing business.
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Andritz is to supply a vertical screw thickener (VST) dewatering system for the RMP (refiner mechanical pulp) process at Mayr-Melnhof Karton's mill in Frohnleiten, Austria. The Andritz VST is a screw press with a vertical design. The pulp is fed in from the top and then compressed and dewatered as it moves downwards. The self-filling and gravity-assisted dewatering principle allows higher throughput and pulp dryness because the available screen area is fully used. The Andritz system also has a dilution conveyor, MC pump including standpipe and a TurboMix agitator. Automation, instrumentation, engineering, mechanical installation, commissioning and start-up supervision are also part of the scope of supply.
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Alfa Laval has secured a SEK60 million order from the Nordic energy company St1 for a process line to be installed in a new biorefinery plant that is being built in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Alfa Laval equipment will remove various impurities from waste fats and oils, which later will be converted into renewable fuels. Alfa Laval deliveries are scheduled for 2021. The new St1 biorefinery, which will have an annual production of 200 000 tonnes of renewable fuels, is expected to open in 2022.
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Osaki CoolGen Corp is implementing Honeywell UOP SeparALL technology to remove carbon dioxide during coal gasification processing at its facility in Hiroshima, Japan. The UOP SeparALL process helps meet the needs of clean power generation through integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power generation, and can be used in the gasification value chain to produce chemicals and synthetic fuels. The project includes a large facility demonstration of an oxygen-blown IGCC, followed by the addition of a UOP SeparALL unit for CO2 removal. The IGCC plant will be integrated with fuel cell combined cycle technology to conduct a demonstration of that technology with CO2 removal.
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Severn Trent Water, through its key capital delivery partner MWH Treatment Ltd, has selected Bluewater Bio Ltd's FilterClear multi-media filtration technology for the provision of a Tertiary Solids Removal (TSR) plant at Itchen Bank STW in Warwickshire, UK. Bluewater Bio is providing a fully automated 4v2550 tertiary solids removal plant which when completed will be capable of treating in excess of 115 l/s. The Bluewater Bio scope will include design, manufacture, supply, installation and commissioning of a new TSR plant, with delivery scheduled for autumn 2020. This is Bluewater Bio's sixth phosphorus removal scheme with Severn Trent and the first for AMP 7. Fergus Rooksby, commercial director of Bluewater Bio, said: “We are delighted to work with both Severn Trent and MWHT on this P removal scheme. As we are now moving into AMP 7, this first contract, as part of the early start programme of works, allows us to keep up the momentum in establishing FilterClear as an ideal solution for a chemical dosing approach to low phosphorus consents.”
. 2020 May 14;2020(4):10. doi: 10.1016/S1365-6937(20)30111-8