With the rising cost of resources and environmental awareness, many enterprises begin to use green technology, reduce carbon emissions, to minimize waste generation. Water treatment technology is one of the most important green technology. Frost&Sullivan from the consulting firm predicts that by 2010, the global water resources management and sewage treatment technology market size is expected to reach $350 billion.
Water treatment technology development space is broad
Data show that by 2025, the world's population of 2/3 may face a shortage of water resources, so water treatment technology will be more and more attention, which includes high efficiency of water resources management and sewage treatment.
In North America, for example, water management and wastewater treatment facilities are extremely urgent. 63% in the operation of the facilities in the extended operation, the average running time they have reached 18.3 years. 52% of the sewage treatment facilities in the extended operation. In the arid area of the United States, the demand for seawater desalination technology is becoming more and more high. Sea water desalination technology is mainly confined to the efficiency, and with the shortage of fresh water, these limitations are gradually being diluted and ignored.
The development of water treatment technology has great prospects, many countries are implementing policies and projects in water treatment. At present, advanced water management and wastewater treatment technology and its development trend, including the recycling of water, reverse osmosis desalination and ozonation, etc.. For example, reverse osmosis desalination technology is rapidly occupying large facilities market, and this field in the past mainly to thermal process equipment based. Processing efficiency and lower membrane price, the reverse osmosis desalination market developed rapidly in the past 5 years, now the application of reverse osmosis desalination technology is no longer a small factory, large-scale reverse osmosis desalination plant is It is quite common for. In sewage treatment, Australian researchers proposed a new rotating biological contactor in electrochemical power field, this technology can be used in the sewage treatment industry has 30 years of rotating biological wastewater treatment technology to improve the efficiency of 15%; in addition, a treatment of high polluted wastewater technology have been made, sewage this technology can deal with pollutant concentration of more than 300 thousand ppm, and the processing cost only by original storage and chemical processing method of 1/10. This technology is currently considered to be the most simple and easy to use and economic treatment technology, the treatment cost per ton of sewage is about $1. Long term bullish on China's water treatment market at present, China is also facing a huge shortage of fresh water and water pollution problems. As a country with the smallest amount of water resources, measures must be taken to avoid the occurrence of a serious crisis. For serious water shortage in the north, the south to north water diversion project cost of billions of dollars, is expected to build in 2050. Sewage problems also plagued china. 2004 ~2008 years, the annual growth rate of sewage emissions reached 482, an increase of 18% from tons to 572 tons. Frost&Sullivan is expected in 2010, China's sewage discharge will reach 640 tons. China's continuous industrialization, urbanization and rapid economic growth, is the main cause of the rise in the year after year of sewage discharge. But in contrast, China's sewage treatment plant has basically failed to achieve full load operation. In 2008, for example, China's sewage treatment plant sewage treatment capacity of only 64% of the design load, the main reason is that operating costs are too high. In this case, China's sewage treatment industry will require more investment and more advanced technology. In 2006 ~2010, the government is expected to invest more than 300 billion yuan in water treatment. Around such a huge market, Chinese and foreign companies have launched a fierce competition. The advantages of foreign companies mainly lies in its advanced technology and financial strength, and local enterprises are familiar with the domestic market. Shortly before the financial crisis, many enterprises especially foreign enterprises caused a relatively large impact, however, Frost&Sullivan believes that the water treatment is still the country vigorously support the industry, benefit from the China current economic stimulus policy, water treatment technology is still optimistic about the prospects.