Chapter 844: Technology First!
As a businessman, Yang Jie naturally has to have a comprehensive understanding of the market and domestic situation in the country where he conducts business, and his sense of smell must be quite keen, and as a reborn, Yang Jie naturally knows that the economic situation in Middle Eastern countries is generally not very good, and there are many social problems.
These situations can easily be exploited by other countries to cause great social unrest, and he must be very careful when doing business.
In his previous life, it was these Western countries led by Eagle Sauce who secretly played tricks, and as a result, many Middle Eastern countries caused huge social turmoil and civil wars broke out one after another, and Yang Jie naturally had to guard against this.
To this end, Yang Jie also let the company implement the strategy of advance payment in the Middle East to speed up the speed of capital return, and at the same time basically only set up branches in the Middle East, the scale is very small, and the largest investment is to set up a R&D center and several assembly plants in Dubai.
The next day, Yang Jie also held talks with King Salman and some government officials in a conference room in the Ega Palace.
"Because there is no reliable surface water in China, the country mainly relies on groundwater pumping and desalination to meet water demand, but the cost of seawater desalination is very high, so it can be said that it is oil for water. At present, half of China's domestic oil consumption is used to produce fresh water, and last year's seawater desalination consumed about 64 million tons of crude oil, which even exceeded the annual crude oil consumption of some European countries, but the fresh water provided by this is only 20 or 30 cubic meters per capita per year, and the cost is too high. Moreover, over-exploitation of groundwater has led to a sharp decline in the country's groundwater resources, and according to the data we have obtained, the country's groundwater stocks have plummeted by 60 percent in two decades as of last year. ”
An expert from the Ministry of Energy of Dashi said with a solemn face at this time: "Now that the population of our country is still growing, and the demand for water resources is still growing, we hope that Huaxing Group can jointly develop and provide low-power desalination engineering equipment with us to reduce the cost of desalination." ”
Yang Jie nodded: "We have been developing desalination equipment to reduce power consumption and technology to increase the revenue of desalination projects, and we are also very happy to cooperate with the big food country." ”
"Our company's purpose has always been to use advanced technology to help customers create benefits and reduce costs, in fact, our company has also provided some specific technical solutions for your country. ”
Yang Jie looked at Wang Chaonan and several other expert group members beside him, and said, "Let's talk about some of our technical solutions specifically." ”
These expert groups are experts in photovoltaic technology and seawater desalination engineering, as well as Middle East issues, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Commerce, etc., with more than 20 people, and they are also Yang Jie's think tank.
Wang Chaonan, the leader, said: "The equipment produced by Bluestar Water Treatment Company, a subsidiary of our group company, combines reverse osmosis membrane technology, ceramic membrane and ion membrane technology and flash evaporation method, which is extremely excellent in terms of low power consumption, the full cost of electricity consumption per ton of water is only 1.8 kilowatt hours, the water plant is fully automated, and the entire water discharge process from seawater to desalination water is only 20 minutes, not only that, the seawater desalination project also combines the technology of the seasalt plant, the factory can process industrial salt, and maximize the commercial benefits of the seawater desalination plant." ”
"We have now built six desalination projects in Dubai and in China, and these plants have achieved very clear economic benefits. ”
Bluestar Water Treatment Company has been continuously developing water treatment technology in recent years, and has also acquired several water treatment companies overseas, which has also made up for many technical shortcomings, and now the company has become one of the few suppliers and engineering design contractors who can provide two different desalination process technologies and equipment at the same time.
Founded in the sixties of the last century, Haierfa Company, a water treatment company acquired by Bluestar Water Treatment, is a pioneer in desalination in the world and has many patented technologies for customers and operates a variety of desalination and water treatment solutions.
These include technology patents for the use of natural strains, the implementation of green seawater desalination solutions without the addition of any chemicals, direct osmosis cleaning, and vertical arrangement of 16-inch membranes.
This green technology solution is to use bacteria for pretreatment in the desalination system, these bacteria come from nature, Haierfa has been refining these natural bacteria for many years and using them in water treatment, without destroying or killing them, walking with the sea, so it will not produce toxins and cause marine pollution.
This technical solution avoids the chemicals often used in the pretreatment of seawater, such as chlorine, chemicals and flocculants, and is more environmentally friendly.
Today's conventional desalination plants basically use the same 8-inch membrane, but this company is the first in the world to use a 16-inch membrane and arrange it vertically, which reduces a lot of floor space, saves a lot of membrane components, membrane shells and pipe couplings, expands water production, and is easy to install and maintain.
In addition, the on-line cleaning technology developed by Haierfa is also an original technology, in the process of membrane desalination, fouling is a headache, fouling will block the membrane, the conventional practice is irregular dosing cleaning, but dosing cleaning will cause cost problems, but also have an impact on the life of the membrane.
The company's invented on-site cleaning system does not require the addition of any chemicals, and when the pressure reaches a certain coefficient, it automatically starts the process of cleaning the membrane under pressure in the system. This cleaning procedure not only does not damage the life of the membrane, but also does not use chemicals, saving costs and greatly extending the life of the membrane.
On-line cleaning does not require downtime, all treatment procedures can run 24 hours as usual, under normal circumstances, the replacement rate of seawater desalination treatment membrane is 15%, while the replacement rate of membrane produced by Haierfa is controlled at about 1%.
After the acquisition of Huaxing Group, Bluestar Water Treatment Company has made a very big breakthrough in the manufacture of high-level pumps, valves, control systems and membranes and other equipment products, and now it can achieve the first-class level, but the company has little experience in the design and construction of seawater desalination projects, how to organically combine these components together to ensure economical, efficient, stable operation and low water price, which is what Bluestar Water Treatment Company lacked before.
The desalination plant is a whole, not a component, which is like buying a car, you can't blindly pursue the engine, but look at the overall configuration and comprehensive cost.
When it comes to desalination plant equipment, the scale and number of membrane modules are not as large as possible. If the scale of membrane modules is too small or too small, it will affect production capacity and investment, but if the scale is too large and too small, it will increase the cost and failure rate, and seriously affect the stable operation and efficiency.
In the actual design, there are specific calculation formulas, and the difference may be subtle when comparing membrane modules individually, but when tens of thousands of membrane modules are integrated, the effect will be very obvious.
After 40 years of research and development, the safety, economy and stability of seawater desalination technology have withstood the test of time and practice.
Yang Jie naturally also took a fancy to this, although Haierfa Company has advanced technology, but compared with those water treatment companies that have strong consortium capital support behind them, it is basically out of a state of being able to eat, and Bluestar Water Treatment Company spent more than 600 million US dollars to acquire this company, which is also to let the company's patented technology absorb and utilize.
Bluestar Water Treatment Company, which has made up for its shortcomings, is now among the world's first-class in terms of water treatment technology, and its market layout is mainly concentrated in domestic, European, North America, Tianzhu and other countries and regions.
Bluestar Water Treatment Company also won the bid for a super-large seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Dubai, with a designed daily water production of 400,000 cubic meters, and now the first phase of the project has been completed, and now the daily water production can reach 150,000 cubic meters.
In order to provide energy for the desalination plant, Huaxing Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. built a 1,200 megawatt photovoltaic power station next to it, covering an area of 700 acres and costing more than 500 million US dollars, which not only meets the electricity consumption of the desalination plant and industrial salt plant, but also supplies 400 megawatts of electricity to Dubai's power grid every day.