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Liaoning Water Forum
June 1 and 2 2009, BTES co-hosted a Water Forum with Shengyang Government and other organizations in this capital city of Liaoning Province, and the key focus is water treatment solutions for China’s needs. BTES experts and executives presented the state-of-the-art technology in environmental protection area, especially waste water treatments technology. Approximately100 experts and industrial managers attended the forum.
China is making an effort to reduce the impact of the global financial crisis through environmental infrastructure upgrades. One of the biggest investment projects in China, with a projected budget of RMB4.0 trillion, has been planned, and of this, RMB210 billion, 5.25% of the total, for environmental projects such as wastewater treatment and renewable energy facilities. This is no doubt good news for the Chinese wastewater treatment sector, offering many opportunities in the areas of investment, technology, research and development for this vital industry.
Some well-established and respected companies expected to enter the Chinese water treatment market and be benefit from the RMB4.0 trillion stimulus packages. BTES has been within this group since years in China market with its mature technological solutions.
"BTES is talking with four domestic chemical companies and chemical industry park located in regions such as northeastern China and Zhejiang province for cooperation on technical service," said Hong Huijie, Head of Business Management of BTES, "Bayer has been engaging in fine chemicals and medicines for over one hundred years, and we has acquired rich experience in treating high-concentration wastewater during the manufacturing process, now we’d like to share it with the Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical enterprises."
BTES has already popularized its wastewater treatment technology in chemical and pharmaceutical sectors in the US, Germany, Mexico and Spain. "Our process techniques in those regions have been verified to be effective in sludge removal and reducing phenols, clotrimazol and other organic chemicals concentration in wastewater. We took those mature and reliable processes into China and reformed them to fit the features of wastewater from Chinese chemical and pharmaceutical plants", Hong told CCR in the 2nd International Water Forum hold by Noppen Co., Ltd. in Shenyang, Liaoning province on 1st & 2nd June 2009.
"BTES has optimized the existing wastewater treatment process for a pharmaceutical factory in Xiamen, Fujian province in 2007, and finally achieved a COD reduction of more than 90%."
BTES Head of Process Technology Dr. Dieter Heinz shared his opinion from an expert point of view: ‘Currently everybody is looking at energy efficiency, and this is also a big subject for BTES. We have developed a systematic and efficient approach to detect energy savings potentials for short and mid-term pay backs in chemical and pharmaceutical production units. The same will happen with water. Its value will continuously rise. In a growing world population with strongly growing industries in countries like China and India, we will have to expect a more difficult supply – demand situation. But this is not a fight of industry against civilians, this is a mutual task! Chemical companies have been and always will be an important innovation driver for resource efficiency. Their products will play a crucial role in many industries and household applications to save water. Their products will help to clean water more effectively. The processes of the chemical industry will be optimized more and more to reduce water consumption and return cleaned up water. Here we at Bayer Technology Services have a long tradition by analyzing in detail every production process and optimizing it in every stage to reduce energy and water consumption. We have developed an Operational Excellence approach to systematically find the optimization potentials for these challenges. The result is significant savings in energy and water consumption in combination with reduced cost.
"We have developed several wastewater treatment technological solutions such as LOPROX(R), BAYER Tower Biology, and BayFlotech(R). The latter two are towers in cylinder or conical shape, with much smaller footprints than the current treatment tank in China, so they are able to save much of land cost for companies using these techniques", Heinz said, "this could be seen from the strong interest of some companies in the project cases."
"In 2009, Bayer plans to reduce the energy consumption by 5% - 15% in its plants worldwide, and BTES is the major team to realize this target", Heinz added.
