Energy Recovery, Inc. announced $15 million in contracts to supply its PX® Pressure Exchanger® energy recovery devices to seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants in India. All orders are expected to ship in 2024. All together, these plants will provide over 670,000 cubic meters of clean drinking water to communities in India each day.

As one of the most water stressed countries in the world, Indiacontinues to investin desalination projects in order to supplement its freshwater supply. The country is home to 18% of the world?s population but has only 4% of the world?s water resources. Energy Recovery?s PX recaptures otherwise wasted pressure energy within the SWRO desalination process to improve system performance and energy efficiency and reduce operational costs and carbon emissions.

The PX can reduce the energy consumption of an SWRO desalination system by as much as 60%. When installed, Energy Recovery estimates the PX will prevent over 300,000 metric tons of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere from these projects each year.