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Friday, July 22, 2005
Cheaper to do water refilling
* With entry of low-cost purifier for small and medium
enterprises
An Australian company manufacturing reverse osmosis systems, such
as desalinators, to produce fresh drinking water, has designed a
low-cost water purifier for small and medium companies that want
to venture into the water refilling business.
Dickson Peter Ybañez, managing director and chairman of
DP Ybañez Group of Companies Inc. (DPYGCI), said the company’s
introduction of the low-cost desalinator in the country is one way
of helping the government fulfill its duty of providing clean water
to everyone.
He said the machine costs P470,000.
“With this cost, any entrepreneur who wants to venture into
the water refilling business can do so. Aside from earning, they
will be able to help bring down the cost of clean water by selling
these at prices lower than the existing prices in the market,”
Ybanez told Sun.Star Cebu.
The company will open a distribution office at the Cebu Business
Park.
YIL has sold its reverse osmosis systems, which produce fresh drinking
water from brackish and seawater sources, to countries like Indonesia,
Singapore, New Zealand, Fiji, the Middle East, Malaysia, Africa
and Bangladesh, among others.
(JBN)
SUN STAR Monday, August 16, 2004
Easy to get clean, drinking water
A CEBUANO who has made it big in Australia may
be able to help President Arroyo realize her promise of bringing
clean water all over the country during her next six years in office.
Dickson Peter Ybañez, proprietor of Ybañez
International Ltd. (YIL), last week launched in Cebu his desalination
technology, which processes “real saltwater into pure water”
in about one second.
This has applications for areas not easily accessible
by vehicles, where Ybañez’s machines, which can be
as small as 1.2 meters in length, can be carried to the site by
just two people. A machine this small can process 5,000 liters of
seawater a day.
Ybañez expressed particular concern about
Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, where he said he had heard people were catching
rainwater for use as drinking water, unmindful or perhaps ignorant
of the fact that the water may contain contaminants like larvae
or acid rain.
The technology created by YIL, a wholly Australian-owned
company put up in the 1980s to design and manufacture water treatment
systems, can process seawater, brackish water, and water from the
well.
United Nations
Ybañez, who migrated to Australia as a
child, said his machines are certified by World Health Organization
and United Nations standards for producing water that is safe for
drinking.
“We’re talking 0.0001 microns of
purity,” he said.
His company, which is headquartered in Western
Australia, counts the legendary French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau
among his varied clients.
Citor Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of YIL, manufactures
the desalinators for light and heavy industrial uses, the mining
industry, agriculture, yachts and pleasure vessels, islands and
resorts. Another subsidiary, DP Ybañez Group of Companies
Inc., is the Philippine unit that will distribute the machines in
the Philippines.
YIL has already supplied systems to every state
in Australia and exported to countries like Indonesia, Singapore,
New Zealand, Fiji, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, India, Pakistan,
and regions like Africa and the Middle East.
Containerized
Ybañez said for heavy users, there are
containerized models of his water treatment systems, like 10-footer
and 40-footer-sized models.
Since they are housed in containers, they are
easy to transport.
In fact, his machines supplied potable water
to the earthquake-stricken Turkey not too long ago, when it had
difficulty supplying its own water with the power lines down.
Ybañez said his containerized systems
have a generator built in, an air conditioner, toilet and self-sufficient
lighting. The 40-footer model can process 220,000 liters of seawater
a day. The requirement is less than 100 kilowatts of power.
One of those, he said, could already serve the
cooking and drinking water needs of two to three Philippine barangays,
or 22,000 homes, assuming each family consumes 10 liters a day.
With this in mind, Ybañez is pitching
his equipment to local bottling companies as well, assuring that
they will be able to recover the cost of the machine in less than
a year.
Bottled water
And to prove his claim, he is planning to bottle
his own water products in Barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City. Ocean
Fresh, the brand he is bottling, may be out in the market before
the year ends. CTL
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THE FREEMAN
Friday, December 10, 2004
New water purifying system hits Cebu
December 10, 2004
The Citor System, the widely used water desalinator, is now available
in Cebu through Ybañez International Ltd. The company specializes
in the manufacture of reverse osmosis systems to produce fresh drinking
water from brackish and seawater sources with emphasis on seawater
desalinators for all types of vessels, yachts and islands.
The new Citor water purifying system uses the reverse osmosis procedure
to extract clean water from a polluted source or eliminate harmful
minerals from seawater.
How does Citor work?
Large areas of synthetic sheet membrane are wrapped in a spiral
and inserted in a pressure housing — this is called a membrane
module inside the desalinator machine. Water is pumped into the
module of a fixed rate and pressure. A percentage of the volume
passes through the membrane and is collected as fresh water. The
remaining water flowing over the membrane surface, carries the excess
salts and impurities to waste. This action prevents the membrane
surface from fouling.
The Citor System water desalinators can produce from a range of
1,000 to 1,000,000 liters a day, depending on the machine size.
All Citor water desalinators are easy to install, operate and would
require minimum training, low in maintenance and service requirements.
Ybañez International Ltd. supplies package installations
for power stations, boiler feed, car wash, hydroponics, bottled
water plants, print shops, laboratories and chemical manufacturers
as well as fresh water supply for islands and coastal areas.
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