Hydro Intl Share Discussion Threads

[rivaldo] 27/12/2006 09:46

Many thx Garth - hope you had a great Xmas, and have a happy New Year.

HYD is ticking up again - 2007 will hopefully be another good year for holders imo.

[garth] 27/12/2006 07:55

Rivaldo,

Around just briefly - your wish is my command! ;0)

G.

[rivaldo] 27/12/2006 07:41

More good news today about HYD - I assume the spate of news flow is all work which has contributed to HYD's H2'06.

Garth, you around - seen my post no. 1475?



"Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial Team on 27 December 2006

Dynasand filters help keep tyre production rolling

Flexsys Rubber Chemicals is a multi-national chemical manufacturer producing rubber chemicals, predominantly for use in tyre manufacture. The Flexsys Ruabon site, near Wrexham, uses water extracted from the River Dee in the manufacturing processes. To ensure the water is of the right purity, it is passed through a Hydro International treatment plant, comprising 2 Lamella separator units and 3 DynaSand DS 5000 filters to remove all sediment and other matter.

'Water is essential to our production processes,' comments Senior Mechanical Engineer John Ferrari, 'so having the Hydro treatment systems that are low-maintenance, high quality and trouble-free is critical.

An average of 3,600 cubic metres per day of incoming water is treated.

It is initially dosed with a poly-aluminium chloride flocculant before passing through the Lamella separators to remove the bulk of the sediment.

The water then flows through the DynaSand filter units in parallel, before being treated with a biocide and stored in the 300 cubic metre buffer tanks.

Backwash from the Lamella separators and the DynaSand filters is treated in our existing site wastewater biological treatment plant before discharge to the river.

The treated water is not only used directly in chemical manufacture but also for a variety of other uses such as for making up cooling water circuits, supplying vacuum pumps, ejectors and scrubbers and for steam generation.

It is also needed to maintain a reservoir of fire fighting water'.

As well as the Lamella separators and DynaSand filters, the water treatment plant consists of pumps, storage tanks, dosing equipment and instrumentation.

The DynaSand units comprise a sand filter bed held within a hopper into which the water, pre-dosed with coagulant, is pumped via a manifold to deep within the sand.

The water flows up through the sand bed, where solids are trapped on the grains of sand, into the open space above the sand, and the cleansed water exits via a weir at the top to the buffer tank.

The sand containing the entrapped solids is continuously air lifted from the bottom of the hopper, washed by a turbulent mixing action, and the clean sand allowed to return to the sand bed at the top to ensure a circular cleansing cycle.

The wash water with separated solids is discharged separately for treatment.

The Johnson Lamella separator provides initial clarification of sediment carrying water with a footprint which can be as little as 10% that of an equivalent settling pond.

The patented flow control system passes the incoming water evenly up over a number of lamella plates held in parallel, allowing settled out solids to trickle to the bottom discharge hopper, whilst the clarified water exits at the top of the unit."

[cheap] 20/12/2006 10:56

Good point Rivaldo - that would make a very useful starting point for anyone prepared to research HYD's technology and opportunities. It's difficult to imagine a more fundamental business than that of keeping water clean and moderating its destructive tendencies.

[rivaldo] 20/12/2006 10:41

FYI there's a 19 page PDF presentation here that HYD made to the Water and Waste conference at the Stock Exchange in March this year which I don't remember seeing before:



Interesting about the product launches in Q3 2006 and Q1 2007.

Garth, could you do us a favour and stick the link in the header? At least there'd be something fairly current in there!

[rivaldo] 20/12/2006 07:41

Good news - HYD are researching how to combat FOG :o)) Well, fat, oil and grease anyway...and they've got a grant to do so. I'd have thought this could be a big winner, and I assume there isn't anything else out there yet:



"Hydro International Wins £70,000 Development Grant
19-Dec-2006

Hydro International has been awarded a £70,000 grant for the development of a `fat, oil and grease (FOG)` separator. The grant was awarded by the South West of England Regional Development Agency.

Group Technical Manager Mike Faram says, "FOG removal is an area that Hydro Wastewater are interested in, and we are already receiving enquiries for such equipment".

The grant covers overheads and staff time, in addition to materials and equipment. The project is scheduled to run for 18 months ".

[rivaldo] 19/12/2006 21:20

LOL Picnic! Many a true word spoken in jest....

[picnic] 19/12/2006 16:04

I hope there not any people out there who think the headline in todays FT
"Statoil and Hydro in $29 bn deal " relates to little ol' HYD ? :o)

[cheap] 19/12/2006 09:07

A rare event for Hyd to start the day in the top 30 risers....

[garth] 19/12/2006 08:13

Fantastic run - and looks like its gathering strength. Well done guys.

G.

[rivaldo] 19/12/2006 07:58

Hmmm...you don't see pre-open buying in HYD very often! Someone's keen and the price is nicely marked up already.

[rivaldo] 18/12/2006 21:06

Waggle, thx for letting us know about the visit. Any other info or impressions obtained - and your new price target - gratefully received.

I'm interested in your point about commerciality. Are you talking about rainwater harvesting or stormwater drainage, or both, or just general acceptance across the HYD product range? And I assume you mean in the UK rather than the USA as well?

[picnic] 18/12/2006 20:12

Nice tick up today.Just noticed on the US HYD website "Due to substained growth
HYD now has openings nationwide for Regional Sales Managers on our Stormwater Sales Team".Augers well for the future?
Waggle - what kind of price target are you going for? Long term hold for me.

[philjeans] 18/12/2006 15:02

Could be on a tipsters New Year list...I wonder?

[waggle] 18/12/2006 14:54

I will shortly be revising my y/e 2007 target,which was 200p,oh and btw it won't be downwards....
a very informative visit,all of which is since in the public domain.
the important point is that they are now finally getting commerciality with developers,and where one goes then the rest wil/are following so as not to be dis-advantaged...

[rivaldo] 18/12/2006 14:09

A few buys today and another new high - hopefully HYD will approach the all-time highs above 170p soon.

Ta Woodsman, interesting - more research needed I think...

[woodsman2004] 12/12/2006 09:51

Hi Rivaldo,

I am led to believe that when there is a torrential downpur in Central london, the storm drains are overwhelmed. In order to prevent flooding, water is discharged straight into the Thames - this of course contains untreated sewage, oils etc.

When this happens the Thames bubblers go into action (see below) in order to try and keep the oxygen level up to minimise fish deaths.



Anyway, good news about the contract wins - looking good for long term holders.

[rivaldo] 11/12/2006 21:30

Well, more good news - seems I missed a second contract win news story on the HYD web site:



"Purifying River Water For Medical and Food Products with DynaSand®
Download file [388.69KB]
07-Dec-2006

Manufacturing a wide range of paper and non-woven tissue products from medical gowns and masks to tea-bags, Ahlstrom plc's Chirnside plant depends on the quality of its process feedwater. A total of 14 DynaSand® DST50D filters provide high performance, minimal maintenance filtration to ensure that intake from the local River Whiteadder is always of the optimum quality.

Ahlstrom Chirnside's Engineering Services and Utilities Supervisor, Manse Young, explains: "The Whiteadder is a typical spate driven river, running through farmland upstream of us. Water conditions can vary widely from almost black to brown and muddy when the farmers are ploughing and, even when clear and low, it has a peat stained character.

"We need 475m3/hr of high purity water to feed our processes, so to ensure it is of the optimum quality, it is dosed with poly aluminium silicate coagulant and then passed through the DynaSand® DST50D filters. In this way, we are able to remove all the sediments and silts, and strip out the colouration.

"Provided the recommended daily routine filter checks are completed, the DynaSand® filters do an excellent job and virtually run themselves, with little maintenance and management."

The DynaSand® units comprise a sand filter bed held within a hopper into which the water, pre-dosed with coagulant, is pumped via a manifold to deep within the sand. The water flows up through the sand bed, where solids are trapped on the grains of sand, into the open space above the sand, and the cleansed water exits via a weir at the top to a buffer tank.

The sand containing the entrapped solids is continuously air lifted from the bottom of the hopper, washed by a turbulent mixing action, and the clean sand allowed to return to the sand bed at the top to ensure a circular cleansing cycle. The wash water with separated solids is discharged separately for treatment.

The DynaSand® filtration plant is packaged with pumps, flowmeters and dosing equipment, in a compact installation. The backwash of extracted colour and other solids is treated in an effluent plant, then compressed with a belt filter and spread on the land locally.

Before discharge from the factory, the process water is treated in the effluent plant and released into the river, at around 10ppm of solids, an important factor as the Whiteadder is a renowned salmon river, and a tributary of the River Tweed.

If you would like any further information on DynaSand® filters or any of Hydro International's wastewater, stormwater and sewage treatment systems, please call 0800 269371."

[rivaldo] 11/12/2006 18:23

Not sure what you mean Woodsman, the fish kills are from sewage/chemical leaks aren't they, not stormwaters?

This from the Times today isn't exactly reassuring for the population at large, but is indicative of the growing necessity for HYD's products:



"The insurance industry knows well that natural disasters are growing worse and more expensive as sea levels rise, storms turn more violent, torrential rains set off floods and heatwaves reach sub-tropical proportions.

Global warming is beginning to hurt in the pocket and could very soon cost some hair-raising amounts. It will not be cheap keeping the North Sea storm surges out of London and the Thames estuary. Plans for a multibillion-pound replacement to the barrier are going to be needed soon. And before then some £4 billion will be required shoring up floodwalls. The alternative could be a disaster of New Orleans proportions.

Other parts of Britain need flood protection. Failure to invest in flood defences on the East Coast could result in £16 billion of damage, according to the Association of British Insurers. Over England and Wales, more than a million properties with a value of £130 billion will be at risk of coastal and tidal flooding in 50 years' time and another 100,000, valued at £8 billion, threatened by coastal erosion."

[woodsman2004] 11/12/2006 12:26

As a matter of interest what is the reason why London has not installed storm control equipment?

At present every time there is a torrential downpour they either kill lots of fish or they spend a fortune "bubbling" the water.

I guess there is a large cost and complexity issue with London, never mind the age of the existing arrangments.

[cheap] 11/12/2006 11:54

Yes, looks like previous high of 03/04 is within reach (so long as the weak dollar isn't too much of a drag on US profits).

[rivaldo] 11/12/2006 10:40

Another tick up. Looking interesting chart-wise I think.

Weather report - tipping it down all over the place, with reports of record rainfall in Wales and the North. Good news for that housing development in Cumbria in the post above is that they've installed HYD's stormwater control products...

[rivaldo] 10/12/2006 19:09

New news from Hydro - good to see Hydro linking up with Persimmon Homes, one of the biggest developers in the UK. Augurs well:



"Novel Hydro-Brake® Complex Flow Control Controls Flow for Cumbria
07-Dec-2006

For a new housing development on the site of the former Rowntree Chocolate factory in Egremont, Cumbria, the installation of stringent stormwater discharge controls was required by the Environment Agency. By devising an unusual two storey configuration of Hydro International's Hydro-Brake® flow control devices, the consulting engineer Richard Bland was able to meet the specific discharge profile required at a competitive cost.

Richard Bland, consulting engineer RAB Engineering Design Ltd, commented: "The EA requirements were complex, and we had to meet discharge limits for 2, 30 and 100 year events. The discharge profile had to mimic the former factory's stormwater outfall profile so that it would be compatible with the local storm drainage and facilitate adoption by United Utilities. Hydro-Brake® delivers the requisite control of head at the best possible value, and Hydro's service support was impressive."

The site is intended for 14 homes (6 semis and 8 bungalows) on 0.48 hectares from local developer Stuart Williamson and 72 homes (high density and detached) on 1.40 hectares from Persimmon Homes. The discharge calculations with the roofs, roads and other surfaces made up 1.04 hectares of impermeable area and resulted in limits of 30 l/sec (2 year event) 51 l/sec (30 year event) and 62 l/sec (100 year event) being agreed.

The Hydro-Brake® Flow Control devices are mounted at the discharge end of a 2.4 m diameter, 42 m long concrete pipe which is used to balance the stormwater storage. A 207 mm SXH Hydro-Brake® Flow Control is sited at the invert of the pipe, with a 170 mm SXH Hydro-Brake® Flow Control located 1.6 m above it, all of which are connected to the outfall via a purpose-made junction. The lower Hydro-Brake® Flow Control provides flow attenuation for the low return period storms. At high flow rates, the upper Hydro Brake® Flow Control operates in conjunction with the lower Hydro-Brake® Flow Control as required by extreme storm conditions.

Consulting Engineer: RAB Engineering Design Ltd
Developers: Stuart Williamson Ltd; Persimmon Homes PLC

If you would like any further information on Hydro-Brake® or any of Hydro International's stormwater, wastewater and sewage treatment systems, please call 0800 269371."

[rivaldo] 07/12/2006 15:12

Got all excited for a minute when I saw the RNS sign come up..

Cheap, let us know if you or waggle have any interesting news or views from the visit, by e-mail if you like.