MILLAR WESTERN TO TEST TWO SEAIR SA600 UNITS AT WHITECOURT PULP MILL
Edmonton, Alberta, March 5, 2008. Seair Inc. (SDS:TSX Venture Exchange) is pleased to announce Millar Western Forest Products Ltd. has agreed to rent two Seair SA600 diffusion units to assess their effectiveness in increasing dissolved oxygen levels, while reducing energy consumption, in an extended-aeration system used to treat effluent at the company's totally chlorine-free bleached chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp (BCTMP) mill at Whitecourt, Alberta.
Seair's SA600 diffusion system produces micro-bubbles of gas which, at 5 microns in diameter, are 1,000 times smaller than those produced by traditional fine-bubble diffusers. The gas micro-bubbles provide for an extremely efficient transfer of oxygen from ambient air into the pulp mill's aeration water. This efficiency will not only increase dissolved oxygen levels and thereby enhance effluent quality, but in doing so require a fraction of the energy used in other diffusion systems. The expected result is a further improvement of the mill's environmental performance.
Harold Kinasewich, President and CEO of Seair, states "the SA600 is an industrial-scale diffusion system designed to dissolve gases, such as oxygen and ozone, for any situation where increased dissolved oxygen levels or sterilization are required for large volumes of water. We believe it is an ideal replacement for inefficient and expensive coarse and fine bubble aeration systems, since it produces superior results with much lower energy consumption and maintenance costs. We are confident the completion of this trial with Millar Western, along with another trial currently being conducted at Canfor's pulp mill in Taylor, British Columbia, will fully demonstrate the superiority of the Seair system."About Seair
Seair is a leading developer of patent protected diffusion and sterilization technologies which allow for the efficient diffusion of gases into a liquid, thereby facilitating numerous applications in a wide variety of industries including wastewater treatment, pulp and paper, food processing, aquaculture, agriculture/horticulture, sterilization, golf course irrigation and pond treatment, animal enhancement and oil and gas. Seair's primary focus is developing and selling equipment that diffuses gases, such as oxygen, ozone or carbon dioxide, into a liquid, resulting in a supersaturate solution. The major difference between Seair and other diffusion technologies is Seair's ability to achieve extremely small bubble size, which in turn allows for the mass transfer of gas to fluid. The result is a stable condition where gases remain in solution for extended periods of time, leading to increased productivity and lower operating costs. Seair provides diffusion-enhanced portable wastewater treatment plants through its subsidiary, Seair Septic.
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