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World leader in electrochemical technologies enhances its water and wastewater treatment portfolio by adding MIOX technologies to its product line
Milan and Albuquerque - De Nora, a global leader in electrochemical technologies and the world?s largest provider of electrodes, coatings and complete solutions for electrochemical processes, today announced it has acquired the Albuquerque-based MIOX business from Johnson Matthey for an undisclosed price.
The acquisition strengthens De Nora?s growing portfolio of water purification technologies that minimize environmental impact through improved energy efficiency, intelligent options, and chemical use reduction. De Nora?s on-site generation product offering includes electrochlorination systems using either seawater or brine for water treatment and biofouling control. The MIOX technology adds knowledge and experience in producing proprietary mixed oxidants on site for advanced applications.
Since its inception in 1994, MIOX has been a provider of reliable, cost-effective on-site generator equipment serving the municipal, industrial and oil and gas markets in the Americas, delivering a broad range of solutions to its customers.
?De Nora brings innovative electrochemical, disinfection, oxidation and filtration solutions to diverse applications around the world. Our expertise and footprint make us a leader in the electrochemical market. Now, the acquisition of MIOX expands that market reach in municipalities and industrial segments, in food and beverage, and propels our presence into cooling tower applications, adding the possibility to choose between hypochlorite and mixed oxidants productions. The MIOX technology complements De Nora?s offering with minimal overlap with our existing ClorTec products,?? said Paolo Dellach?, Group CEO of De Nora.
De Nora has been supplying electrodes to MIOX for more than 20 years. ?Our long-term relationship will support the integration of our natural synergies, reinforcing De Nora?s leading position in the on-site generation market. Merging our extensive expertise and strong IP will benefit the customers of both companies with more efficient and faster development of new products already in the R&D pipeline.?? added Paolo.
?De Nora is a natural fit for MIOX?s cutting-edge technology and its brilliant people,?? said Cem (?Gem??) Candir, MIOX President. ?MIOX has accomplished good growth in recent years especially in the United States Municipal and Industrial markets, and De Nora will enable MIOX to better serve its customers with expanded global equipment servicing capabilities.??
About De Nora
De Nora is an Italian multinational leader in sustainable technologies that offers energy saving products and water treatment solutions. Globally De Nora is the major provider of electrodes for electrochemical processes in the Chlorine & Caustic, Electronics & Surface Finishing and Renewable Energy Storage and is among the leaders in technologies and processes for the filtration and disinfection of water. It serves clients in 119 countries worldwide with 19 offices, 12 manufacturing facilities, and three research & development centers in Italy, the USA and Japan. The Group intellectual property portfolio currently contains 355 patent families with more than 3,000 territorial extensions and about 90 trademarks all over the world.
About MIOX
MIOX is an industry leader in electrochemical generation for water disinfection. MIOX chemical generators combine salt, water and power to generate sodium hypochlorite and Mixed Oxidant Solution on site, giving customers the freedom to produce disinfectants in the amount they need, when they need it. MIOX develops and supports a wide range of solutions, cost-effectively producing from 1 to 2,000 pounds per day of chlorine equivalent for indoor jungle gym (https://www.familypark.org/) varied applications such industrial cooling towers, water and wastewater treatment, produced water recycling, cleaning-in-place and dairy farm applications.
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De Nora Acquires Miox
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The Prosonic Flow E 100 measures flow, temperature and volume of industrial water, feedwater, cooling water and condensate.
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It can measure flow in both directions as well as water temperature, making it ideal for measuring demineralized water in boiler condensate return lines, or monitoring and controlling feedwater temperature. It can also measure flow in water containing magnetite, often found in closed hot water systems for nuclear reactors, wet central heating systems and boilers.
The all-stainless-steel Prosonic Flow E 100 works in process pressures up to 363 psi, and in temperatures from 32 to 302 degrees F. It is available in line sizes from 2 to 6 inch for measuring flows up to 1680 gal/min with accuracy of ?0.5% fs. Accuracy is based on accredited calibration rigs according to ISO 17025.
The flowmeter measures volume flow rate by combining all the flow velocities determined by its sensor pairs within the cross sectional area of the meter body with extensive knowledge of fluid flow dynamics. The design of the sensors and their position ensures that only a short straight run of pipe upstream of the meter is required after typical flow obstructions, such as bends in one or two planes.
Process outputs sent via 4-20mA with HART include volume flow, mass flow, flow velocity, temperature and three totalized values. The HART signal also includes diagnostic outputs such as acceptance rate, sound velocity, signal strength, signal to noise ratio, turbulence and signal asymmetry. It also has a Pulse/frequency/switch output.
A local display has a 4-line liquid crystal display with 16 characters per line, white background lighting, and switches that turn to red in event of device errors. The format for displaying measured and status variables can be individually configured.
The Prosonic Flow E 100 also has a Web server interface. By using a standard Ethernet cable and a laptop, users have direct and complete access to all diagnostic, configuration and device data on-site?without the need for additional software or hardware. This enables targeted maintenance and service, thus saving time.
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About Endress+Hauser in the U.S.
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. Endress+Hauser provides sensors, instruments, systems and services for level, flow, pressure and temperature measurement as well as analytics and data acquisition. We work closely with the chemical, petrochemical, food & beverage, oil & gas, water & wastewater, power & energy, life science, primaries & metal, renewable energies, pulp & paper and shipbuilding industries. Endress+Hauser supports its customers in optimizing their processes in terms of reliability, safety, economic efficiency and environmental impact. The Group employs 13,000 personnel worldwide and generated more than 2.2 billion dollars in 2016.
The Endress+Hauser Group
Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. The Group employs 13,000 personnel across the globe, generating net sales of more than 2.1 billion euros in 2016.
Structure
With dedicated sales centers and a strong network of partners, Endress+Hauser guarantees competent worldwide support. Our production centers in 12 countries meet customers? needs and requirements quickly and effectively. The Group is managed and coordinated by a holding company in Reinach, Switzerland. As a successful family-owned business, Endress+Hauser is set for continued independence and self-reliance.
Products
Endress+Hauser provides sensors, instruments, systems and services for level, flow, pressure and temperature measurement as well as analytics and data acquisition. The company supports customers with automation engineering, logistics and IT services and solutions. Our products set standards in quality and technology.
Industries
We work closely with the chemical, petrochemical, food & beverage, oil & gas, water & wastewater, power & energy, life science, primaries & metal, renewable energies, pulp & paper and shipbuilding industries. Endress+Hauser supports its customers in optimizing their processes in terms of reliability, safety, economic efficiency and environmental impact.
History
Founded in 1953 by Georg H Endress and Ludwig Hauser, Endress+Hauser has been solely owned by the Endress family since 1975. The Group has developed from a specialist in level measurement to a provider of complete solutions for industrial measuring technology and automation, with constant expansion into new territories and markets.
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Wastewater treatment plants produce an effluent commonly known as sludge. Plant operators previously disposed of this sludge directly as fertilizer, but that was made illegal in Switzerland a little over ten years ago due to the growing concentration of pollutants found in effluents. As a result, the sludge is usually dried into cakes and burned, taking thousands of tons of phosphorus with it every year. That matters because phosphorus is an essential compound in several biological processes, including photosynthesis, but there was no feasible method for recycling the phosphorus in effluent streams until now. Engineers at EPFL?s Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing have designed a system capable of recovering the phosphorus, the market for which is estimated at CHF 33 billion. The system was developed by TreaTech, a company spun off from the lab. TreaTech?s system can also produce biogas from the effluent thanks to technology, called thermal gasification, developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute.
To reduce transportation costs, the sludge which is 95% water is first dehydrated by wastewater plants, requiring in-turn a great deal of energy that has a cost of its own. The residue is then incinerated else where. ?Our system can recover sludge directly from wastewater treatment plants without any drying or other preliminary processing needed,?? says Fr?d?ric Juillard, CEO of TreaTech. In his system, the effluent stream is fed into a high-pressure, high-temperature separator (> 22.1 MPa and 400?C) where the fluid enters a supercritical state (i.e., between liquid and gas). That sharply lowers the solubility of the phosphorus and mineral salts in the fluid, causing them to crystallize into solids that can be easily recovered. ?Over 90% of phosphorous can be recuperated,?? underlines the CEO.
Converting nearly 100% of organic matter into biogas
Some wastewater treatment plants already have systems for recycling sludge into biogas. ?But biodigesters they currently use can convert only 40?50% of the organic matter,?? says Ga?l Peng, co-founder and CTO of TreaTech. The remaining digestate is dried and transported to incineration facilities. That generates substantial costs and requires a lot of energy. ?Sludge processing and disposal account for around 40% of a wastewater treatment plant?s total operating costs,?? adds Peng. Juillard therefore wanted to incorporate technology for generating biogas into his system, in order to help plant operators lower costs and boost conversion rates.
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What?s more, the scientists? technology also saves a considerable amount of time ? their reactors can turn sludge into biogas in just 20 minutes, whereas existing biodigesters need around 30 days. That can also save space at wastewater treatment plants and leaves no waste.
Large-scale testing
TreaTech?s research is being supported by the Paul Scherrer Institute as well as the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. The company has successfully tested a prototype and is now building a large-scale version. It plans to install its system at a wastewater treatment plant in 2022 ? just in time to help plant operators comply with new phosphorus recycling regulations that could go into effect in Switzerland in 2026. By requiring companies to recycle phosphorus, the Swiss government hopes to avoid the costs and environmental risks of importing the chemical.
Now that TreaTech has successfully tested its prototype, it is building a pilot plant that is 100 times bigger and can treat 100 kg/h of sludge. The firm?s research is being supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy and obtained CHF 4.4 million in funding from a public-private partnership. The pilot plant should be completed by the end of the year, and the system is scheduled to be installed at a wastewater treatment plant in 2022, with the capacity to process 3 metric tons of sludge per hour.
The next step will be to adapt the system for use in other applications, such as for treating industrial wastewater, wastewater from desalination plants or biomass residue.
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Physicists have let light through the plane of the world's thinnest semiconductor crystal As the scientists noted, the graph that shows the spatial distribution of the polarization of light turned out to be rather unusual -- it resembles a multi-colored marine rapan. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology
In every modern microcircuit hidden inside a laptop or smartphone, you can see transistors?small semiconductor devices that control the flow of electric current, i.e. the flow of electrons. If we replace electrons with photons (elementary particles of light), then scientists will have the prospect of creating new computing systems that can process massive information flows at a speed close to the speed of light. At present, it is photons that are considered the best for transmitting information in quantum computers. These are still hypothetical computers that live according to the laws of the quantum world and are able to solve some problems more efficiently than the most powerful supercomputers.
Although there are no fundamental limits for creating quantum computers, scientists still have not chosen what material platform will be the most convenient and effective for implementing the idea of a quantum computer. Superconducting circuits, cold atoms, ions, defects in diamond and other systems now compete for being one chosen for the future quantum computer. It has become possible to put forward the semiconductor platform and two-dimensional crystals, specifically, thanks to scientists from: the University of W?rzburg (Germany); the University of Southampton (United Kingdom); the University of Grenoble Alpes (France); the University of Arizona (USA); the Westlake university (China), the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and St Petersburg University.
The physicists studied the propagation of light in a two-dimensional crystal layer of molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) which is only one atom thick?this is the thinnest semiconductor crystal in the world. The researchers found that the polarisation of light propagating in a superfine crystalline layer depends on the direction of light propagation. This phenomenon is due to the effects of spin-orbit interaction in the crystal. Interestingly, as the scientists noted, the graph that shows the spatial distribution of the polarisation of light turned out to be rather unusual?it resembles a multi-coloured marine rapana.
Ultrafine molybdenum diselenide crystals for experiments were synthesised in the laboratory of Professor Sven H?fling at the University of W?rzburg. It is one of the best crystal growth laboratories in Europe. Measurements were carried out both in W?rzburg and in St Petersburg under the supervision of Alexey Kavokin, professor at St Petersburg University. An important role in the development of the theoretical base was made by Mikhail Glazov. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an employee of the Spin Optics Laboratory at St Petersburg University, and a leading research associate at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute.
"I foresee that in the near future, two-dimensional monoatomic crystals will be used to transfer information in quantum devices," said Professor Alexey Kavokin, soft play, familypark.org, head of the Spin Optics Laboratory at St Petersburg University. "What classic computers and supercomputers take a very long time to do, a quantum computing device will do very quickly. Therein lies the great danger of quantum technologies?comparable to the danger of an atomic bomb. With their help it will be possible, for example, to hack banking protection systems very quickly. That is why today intensive work is under way, including the creation of means of protecting quantum devices: quantum cryptography. And our work contributes to semiconductor quantum technologies."
Additionally, as the scientist noted, the research was a major step forward in the study of light-induced (i.e. appearing in the presence of light) superconductivity. It is the phenomenon when the materials that allow electric current to pass through have zero resistance. At present, this state cannot be achieved at temperatures above minus 70 C. However, if the proper material is found, this discovery will make it possible to transfer electricity to any point on Earth without any loss, and to create a new generation of electric motors. It should be recalled that in March 2018, the research team of Alexey Kavokin predicted that structures containing superconducting metals, such as aluminium, can help solve the problem. Nowadays, scientists at St Petersburg University are looking for a way to obtain experimental evidence of their theory.
