Hidrofilt Ltd is now one of Europe’s top ten leading water treatment system design and construction companies. Thanks to their technologies, more than 2.7 million people worldwide have access to purified drinking water. The company has been at the forefront of developing innovative solutions that provide drinking water in hard-to-reach areas and reduce environmental impact. Their latest projects, from desalination of seawater to the installation of emergency water supply systems, show how modern Hungarian engineering can provide solutions to global problems.
Proprietary desalination container in Tunisia
The HidroWell desalination system is used to produce drinking water from seawater using reverse osmosis desalination technology. The device is already in use in Tunisia, providing drinking water for a fishing port and a military base. Before the project, drinking water was only available in the area for 5-6 months a year, but thanks to the development, drinking water is now available every day of the year. In order to reduce maintenance costs, an energy recovery system is being used to minimise electricity consumption.
Mobile water purification solution for disaster situations in the Philippines
Hidrofilt Ltd. has installed a special pallet-mounted water purification system in the Philippines that can be used in the event of natural disasters such as typhoons or earthquakes in municipalities where the water supply to the municipality has been cut off. The emergency water treatment unit can be transported by boat or helicopter to the disaster site. This is important because in less economically developed countries, road transport of water treatment equipment in larger containers is often challenging. Often the disaster area is located in a place where road transport is difficult or even impossible.
The technology allows for automated operation and can produce drinking water from surface water, groundwater or seawater. In all cases, the treated water meets World Health Organization (WHO) and local public health requirements.
Projects in Egypt and Qatar
In Egypt, industrial fine desalinated water will be produced from Nile water and more than 90 percent of the wastewater produced will be recycled using zero-liquid-discharge technology, reducing the environmental footprint of the oil company using the water. The project will be completed by the end of the year. And in Qatar, another project has produced drinking water for a cattle farm from brackish water – or semi-saline water, which has a higher salt content than fresh water but lower than seawater.
The group has exported various water treatment and environmental technologies to more than 40 countries over the past 35 years. The company’s credo is to build a world in which all people and living things have access to healthy drinking water, and industrial companies recycle and reuse their waste water.