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Source: Singapore International Water Week
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SIWW, Singapore, June 24, 2009 - (ACN Newswire) - Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2009 (LKY Water Prize) Winner Professor Gatze Lettinga visited Sembcorp's facilities on Jurong Island on Saturday, 20 June 2009, to view the industrial application of his award-winning water solutions in the treatment of complex wastewater.
Professor Lettinga was awarded the LKY Water Prize for his breakthrough of environmentally sustainable solutions for the treatment of used water using anaerobic technology. His revolutionary treatment process enables industrial used water to be purified cost-effectively with reduced sludge and also the potential for the recovery of renewable energy. By choosing not to patent his invention, he has made his technology universally available.
As a beneficiary of Professor Lettinga's Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket ("UASB") technology, Sembcorp Industries currently operates four Expanded Granular Sludge Bed ("EGSB") facilities and is the only company in Singapore to have applied EGSB technology. Sembcorp's first two EGSB facilities are on Singapore's Jurong Island petrochemical cluster. Operational since 1999 and 2001 respectively, they currently serve a total of 12 petrochemical and specialty chemical companies.
In 2002, Sembcorp exported its industrial wastewater treatment capabilities and set up another two EGSB plants in Zhangjiagang and Nanjing in China. These plants treat high chemical oxygen demand wastewater from industrial customers in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Port Zone and Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park.
About Sembcorp Industries Ltd
Sembcorp Industries (SGX:SCI,SCIL) is a leading energy, water and marine group operating in six continents worldwide. With facilities with 5,600 megawatts of gross power capacity and over six million cubic metres of water per day in operation and under development, Sembcorp is a trusted provider of essential energy and water solutions to both industrial and municipal customers. It is also a world leader in marine and offshore engineering, as well as an established developer of integrated townships and industrial parks. The Group has total assets of over S$11 billion and employs over 9,000 employees. Listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange, it is a component stock of the Straits Times Index and several MSCI indices. For more information, please visit www.sembcorp.com.
Contact:
April Lee (Ms)
Senior Vice President
Group Corporate Relations
DID: +65 6723 3160
Email: april.lee@sembcorp.com
Fock Siu Ling (Ms)
PR Counsel
Group Corporate Relations
DID: +65 6723 3152
Email: fock.siuling@sembcorp.com
Source: Singapore International Water Week
Source: Sembcorp Industries Ltd
Topic: Corporate Announcement
Sectors: Water, Environment General
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