NEUMAN & ESSER Forms Strategic Partnership With SurfCleaner
In cooperation with the Swedish tech developer SurfCleaner, NEUMAN & ESSER wants to boost water treatment and sustainability across global industries.
Following a new distribution agreement, NEUMAN & ESSER will now integrate SurfCleaner’s world’s-first water skimmer-separator hybrid technology into its product portfolio. The core principle behind SurfCleaner’s technology was developed by clinical physiologist Dr. Stig Lundbäck, MD PhD following his discovery of the human heart’s Dynamic Adaptive Piston Pump (DAPP) functionality. A unique technology, it is capable of highly effective separation, removal and recovery of floating water contaminants. At the Petroleum Refining Congress May 13 to 15 in Amsterdam, Netherlands - Europe’s largest downstream event for refiners and petrochemical stakeholders, NEUMAN & ESSER joined forces with SurfCleaner to exhibit. “This kickstarted the thinking process that SurfCleaner could greatly support NEUMAN & ESSER’s new Sustainability Strategy,” says Jens Wulff, Managing Director NEUMAN & ESSER Deutschland. According to him, water is a scarce global resource. SurfCleaner’s super smart technology allows NEUMAN & ESSER to recapture water resources across many project sites, which would otherwise be hard to use and require transporting for complicated treatment. For example, refineries and chemical plants around the world as well as at hydrogen production sites that use NEUMAN & ESSER’s equipment.
More broadly, NEUMAN & ESSER is increasingly delivering ‘ecological audits’ for industrial plants to address areas such as energy consumption and water quality. “SurfCleaner’s technology adds another ‘piece in the puzzle’ providing a more ‘holistic’ view to help industry boost sustainability,” Stefanie and Alexander Peters, Managing Partners of NEUMAN & ESSER, say. In addition, the novel water treatment technology will also support NEUMAN & ESSER’s extensive work in the renewable energy sector, which includes the delivery of equipment for the production of green hydrogen.
“Our partnership with NEUMAN & ESSER opens up vast opportunities for the years ahead," Christina Lundbäck, SurfCleaner Founder & Chief Sustainability Officer, says. According to her, SurfCleaner’s technology has the ability to revolutionise the water treatment process across global industries. While it supports the reuse of precious water, it also crucially enables the recovery of resources like oil, diesel and petrol for use in the circular economy, while significantly reducing VOC, CO2 and methane gas emissions. “Through NEUMAN & ESSER we will now have even greater access to markets, through an extensive network of production sites, sales and service centres worldwide. This will help to unleash our technology further afield and maximise its true potential.”, Lundbäck adds.
In the aftermarket sector, it is also important to offer customers solutions that go above and beyond the traditional NEUMAN & ESSER products such as spare parts, field service and repairs, adds Ilya Asser, Managing Director of NEAC Compressor Service. “Building trustful relationships by solving our customer’s pain points when needed. Being at site, our technicians see the water ponds containing a rainbow-like oil sheen. It’s a win-win situation to be able to treat and reuse this water, while helping the refineries lower their carbon footprint.”
About SurfCleaner
SurfCleaner designs, develops and manufactures the world’s first hybrid skimmer separators for removal, separation and recovery of contaminants floating on the water surface – oil, diesel, petrol, floating sludge, and more. The SurfCleaner technology is unique; by combining variations in inflow velocity and direction with gravimetric separation, the process is very efficient – keeping pollutants from accumulating on the surface and therefore help minimising greenhouse gas emissions.
SurfCleaner makes it possible for water treatment plants to solve floating sludge problems and achieve a more effective and stable treatment process. They help refineries, industries and recycling companies to recover oil, diesel and petrol from contaminated water and significantly reduce VOC, CO2 and methane gas emissions. SurfCleaners can also be used for swift removal of oil in ports, rivers, lakes, mines and oil pits. Future models of SurfCleaner will remove microplastics and algae in rivers, ports and coastal areas and make the oceans cleaner.