Breakthrough technologies drive business growth into 2010
(Las Palmas, Spain – December 21, 2009) The ability to efficiently and inexpensively convert large quantities of salt water into drinkable fresh water is a goal as old as mankind itself. In 1997, this goal led the innovators at Triton Water Technologies to implement Pressure Exchangers (PX) in seawater desalination plants, vastly reducing the energy required to desalinate water—and the cost. Today, TWT remains at the forefront of developing and installing compact, effective, reverse osmosis (RO) desalinization plants all over the world.
From its beginnings in 1988 as HOH Canarias SA, TWT has been quick to recognize and adopt the technology that makes desalinization cheaper and faster. By the beginning of the 1990s, it had already installed 11 plants. In April of 1997, TWT approached Leif Haugen, inventor of an energy-recovery device with the potential to reduce an RO plant’s electricity consumption by 66 percent, with a field-test proposition. Within two years, TWT routinely applied this device in all new plants. Haugen’s invention, manufactured by Energy Recovery Inc., is now an industry standard under the trade name Pressure Exchanger.
In the 10 years since implementing Pressure Exchangers, TWT has proven itself as the field-test partner of choice for innovative companies supporting the RO market. One of the most successful partnerships has been with Danfoss, which has produced the high-pressure Nessie pump and the energy-reducing iSave—both field-tested by Triton.
TWT’s leadership in innovation has direct benefits for customers, including more efficient, higher output desalinization plants in smaller, more affordable configurations. For more information about the company and its technology, visit http://www.tritonwatergroup.com/.