My Topic is IDE Technologies. IDE Technologies is a company that provides water recovery and water treatment solutions. In my informative report, I will cover some of the history of the company that was founded in the 60’s by Alexander Zarchin. It was Zarchin’s idea to create a process that would remove the salt from ocean water and make it fresh and useful. IDE Technologies has currently cleaned about 3 million m3/day of water around the globe. I also will explain some of the older processes used to treat water such as multi effect desalination and mechanical vapor compression. In addition, I will explain IDE’s current membrane technologies used for desalination. This technology is not just for cleaning ocean water, but can be used in other applications where fresh water is contaminated, such as power plants, oil and gas plants, mines and many other manufacturing establishments. I would also like to go over some of the company’s projects and success stories they have had in many areas of the world and how these projects changed the lives of the people in the area. The significance of this technology is really unmatched. Think of all that we do with water. It is used for drinking, household chores, agriculture, manufacturing, power generation, and so on. Without it we cannot exist. In many areas of the world people suffer and struggle with the lack of water they have. With this technology, water that is not fit for use can be made clean and useful again. http://uvutechnologymanagement.wikispaces.com/Technology+Concepts
Informative Report on IDE Technologies
The process of water desalination has been around for a very long time although it may not have had such a fancy word as desalination to describe it. Most know that if impure or salt water is heated it will begin to steam. Once the steam cools and condensates, it can be collected as water, free from its impurities. This is only one form of desalination. Aristotle was among the first to discover another method of desalination. Aristotle said that “If one plunges a water-tight vessel of wax into the ocean, it will hold, after twenty four hours, a certain quantity of water that filtered into it through the waxen walls, and this water will be found to be potable, because the earthy and salty components have been sieved off” (Birkett). This method of water passing trough a membrane such as wax, is known as membrane desalination. Membrane desalination is the most efficient way to desalinate water on a large scale. This process uses reverse osmosis which is scientific way of saying that only water passes through a semi permeable membrane and leaves behind its containment. The membrane desalination process has continued to improve and become more efficient overtime resulting in less energy being used than other methods to desalinate water. The company IDE Technologies was founded in the 1960's by Alexander Zarchin he later started a process called multi effect desalination (MED) as well as mechanical vapor compression (MVC). These two processes both involve heat and are simply thermal desalination (IDE). What makes them different from one another are their complex ways of creating the steam and then reusing the steam to heat more seawater before the steam is turned to pure water (Khawaji). With the ever growing population, the world continues to need more and more resources, water being one of them. Not only do we need water as a resource for life but we also use water to create nearly every other resource. Take food for an example, crops need water to grow, and livestock needs water to live. The high demand for water creates the problem of water shortages in many areas and because of this problem, IDE technologies has been a solution for many communities around the world. The Sorek, Israel desalination plant that was built in 2013 is a great example of how this technology really has enhanced the lives of the people there. The Sorek desalination plant provides clean potable water for over one and a half million people, comprising twenty percent of Israel’s water demands (IDE). Overall, IDE Technologies provides Israel with seventy percent of its water with another four smaller water desalination plants (IDE). As this technology continues to develop the costs of such plants will go down enabling more cities and countries to take advantage of this technology to provide them with water. Through these technologies and the brilliant minds that discover them, solutions such as membrane desalination are available today.
Sorek desalination plant
Reference Birkett, James D. THE HISTORY OF DESALINATION BEFORE LARGE-SCALE USE . Vol. 1. Nobleboro: West Neck Strategies, n.d. Web. http://www.desware.net/Sample-Chapters/D01/01-003.pdf. Khawaji, Akili D.; Kutubkhanah, Ibrahim K.; Wie, Jong-Mihn "Advances in seawater desalination technologies". Desalination. pp. 47–69 IDE Technologies. "Sorek Desalination Plant." N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2017.
This technology is not just for cleaning ocean water, but can be used in other applications where fresh water is contaminated, such as power plants, oil and gas plants, mines and many other manufacturing establishments.
I would also like to go over some of the company’s projects and success stories they have had in many areas of the world and how these projects changed the lives of the people in the area.
The significance of this technology is really unmatched. Think of all that we do with water. It is used for drinking, household chores, agriculture, manufacturing, power generation, and so on. Without it we cannot exist. In many areas of the world people suffer and struggle with the lack of water they have. With this technology, water that is not fit for use can be made clean and useful again. http://uvutechnologymanagement.wikispaces.com/Technology+Concepts
Informative Report on IDE Technologies
The process of water desalination has been around for a very long time although it may not have had such a fancy word as desalination to describe it. Most know that if impure or salt water is heated it will begin to steam. Once the steam cools and condensates, it can be collected as water, free from its impurities. This is only one form of desalination. Aristotle was among the first to discover another method of desalination. Aristotle said that “If one plunges a water-tight vessel of wax into the ocean, it will hold, after twenty four hours, a certain quantity of water that filtered into it through the waxen walls, and this water will be found to be potable, because the earthy and salty components have been sieved off” (Birkett). This method of water passing trough a membrane such as wax, is known as membrane desalination. Membrane desalination is the most efficient way to desalinate water on a large scale. This process uses reverse osmosis which is scientific way of saying that only water passes through a semi permeable membrane and leaves behind its containment.
The membrane desalination process has continued to improve and become more efficient overtime resulting in less energy being used than other methods to desalinate water. The company IDE Technologies was founded in the 1960's by Alexander Zarchin he later started a process called multi effect desalination (MED) as well as mechanical vapor compression (MVC). These two processes both involve heat and are simply thermal desalination (IDE). What makes them different from one another are their complex ways of creating the steam and then reusing the steam to heat more seawater before the steam is turned to pure water (Khawaji).
With the ever growing population, the world continues to need more and more resources, water being one of them. Not only do we need water as a resource for life but we also use water to create nearly every other resource. Take food for an example, crops need water to grow, and livestock needs water to live. The high demand for water creates the problem of water shortages in many areas and because of this problem, IDE technologies has been a solution for many communities around the world. The Sorek, Israel desalination plant that was built in 2013 is a great example of how this technology really has enhanced the lives of the people there. The Sorek desalination plant provides clean potable water for over one and a half million people, comprising twenty percent of Israel’s water demands (IDE). Overall, IDE Technologies provides Israel with seventy percent of its water with another four smaller water desalination plants (IDE). As this technology continues to develop the costs of such plants will go down enabling more cities and countries to take advantage of this technology to provide them with water. Through these technologies and the brilliant minds that discover them, solutions such as membrane desalination are available today.
Reference
Birkett, James D. THE HISTORY OF DESALINATION BEFORE LARGE-SCALE USE . Vol. 1. Nobleboro: West Neck Strategies, n.d. Web. http://www.desware.net/Sample-Chapters/D01/01-003.pdf.
Khawaji, Akili D.; Kutubkhanah, Ibrahim K.; Wie, Jong-Mihn "Advances in seawater desalination technologies". Desalination. pp. 47–69
IDE Technologies. "Sorek Desalination Plant." N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2017.
http://www.water-technology.net/projects/sorek-desalination-plant/