Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC) and Hyrec Technologies Ltd. (Urla/Izmir, Turkey; www.hyrec.co) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deploy Hyrec’s Osmotically Assisted Reverse Osmosis (OARO) technology for zero-liquid-discharge desalination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The MOU was signed at the 2019 Saudi Water Forum in Riyadh by Eng. Ali bin Abdulrahman al Hazmi, the Governor of SWCC, and Hyrec’s CEO Basel Abu Shark.
SWCC is the world’s leading sea water desalination company, producing 4.6 million m3/d of fresh water in its 28 plants in Saudi Arabia. Hyrec is a pioneer in low-energy-consumption membrane systems for high-recovery desalination and salt concentration.
“This is an important milestone for Hyrec,” says Abu Sharkh. “Hyrec’s OARO overcomes the limitations of conventional RO. It concentrates brine up to its saturation point and economically extracts salts from sea water and other dilute solutions. Thus, more fresh water is recovered at little additional cost. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with SWCC.”
For more details about Hyrec’s patented OARO technology, see Chem. Eng., February 2019, p. 7; www.chemengonline.com/industrial-grade-salt-recovery-zero-liquid-discharge-process.