Mr. Frederic Dugre reports

H2O INNOVATION: CLEARLOGX PATENTED TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES MEMBRANE PLANT PERFORMANCE AND REDUCES OPEX AT BRAZOS REGIONAL PUBLIC UTILITY AGENCY (TEXAS)

H2O Innovation Inc. has recently secured an order for its Clearlogx proprietary technology, following a three-month pilot demonstration with the Brazos Regional Public Utility Agency (BRPUA) in Granbury, Texas. Clearlogx will control and optimize the coagulant dosing of a 13-million-gallon-per-day (49,210 cubic metres/day) water treatment plant, which is a combination of a conventional and membrane filtration system using ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) technologies.

The pilot demonstration was conducted following a contest last February, at the Membrane Technology Conference (MTC) in San Antonio, Tex. The company selected the winner based on the actual needs of the system in place and determined that Brazos Regional Public Utility Agency would be the most beneficial recipient. Clearlogx was then piloted for a period of 90 days at a small scale on the Brazos Regional Public Utility Agency's UF and RO systems to demonstrate its capability for pretreatment monitoring. During the pilot, Clearlogx has demonstrated that BRPUA would be able to improve its clarifier performance by 50 per cent, prevent premature fouling on the UF system therefore extending the life of the membranes. It was also established that BRPUA would be able to eliminate the need for lime and ferric that it is presently using for pretreatment; this would reduce UF membranes fouling by approximately 50 per cent and allow an increase in production of approximately 25 per cent. Based on these positive results, Brazos Regional Public Utility Agency awarded a contract for the supply of the Clearlogx technology.

BRPUA also awarded H2O Innovation a contract for its System Performance Monitoring Centre (SPMC), an innovative monitoring and control technology, as well as for the implementation of an entire SCADA system. "Both SPMC and SCADA offerings include information technology security features and continuous process performance monitoring. These technologies are also considered to be open architecture that allows more flexibility thus making potential upgrades easier," stated Frederic Dugre, president and chief executive officer of H2O Innovation.