Cost-effective, low maintenance desalinization plant fits anywhere
(Las Palmas, Spain – December 14, 2010) Despite its fundamental importance to food production and industrial activity, not to mention the health and wellbeing of people, fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce in many areas around the world. At the same time, forces like population growth and industrial development are placing greater demands on this essential resource.
Triton Water Technologies (TWT), a leading innovator in the development and implementation of low-energy-consumption desalinization, has reinvented the design of its plants, making them even more attractive to coastal communities and businesses that face water shortages.
TWT has overcome the single greatest obstacle to widespread adoption of desalinization: energy consumption. Because traditional desalination processes consume a great deal of energy, plants were often restricted to areas where water was scarce or energy costs very low. Triton has changed that, with plants can produce fresh water at a rate of less than 3 kilowatt hours per cubic meter. In other words, for every 1000 litres (264 gallons) of fresh water produced, Triton’s plants use the same amount of energy that it takes to burn a single 100w light bulb for 30 hours.
TWT’s new plants require no civil infrastructure. They are housed in standard 20 or 40 foot sea containers, freeing businesses that rely on an interrupted water supply to install TWT plants on their grounds. And their low energy consumption makes them ideal for use on islands.
In 2010, TWT reached agreements with local partners to extend its commercial operation into Tunisia, Cyprus, and other Peloponnesian islands. In 2010, Sol Meliá Hotels engaged in planning with TWT for operations and maintenance of plants supplying water to seven hotels and resorts in the Canary Islands.
For more information about the company and its technology, visit http://www.tritonwatergroup.com/