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Event Overview

Who Should Attend?
Why Attend?
Registration & Fees
Agenda

The World Water Tour is a series of water reuse seminars designed for industry members around the globe interested in learning more about industrial water reuse, water recycling, water scarcity solutions and the leading technologies available to tackle the most challenging water problems.

Through interactive breakout sessions, learn how proven solutions for water reuse and recycling, boiler and cooling system optimization, and product and energy recovery combined with comprehensive water reuse tools can help you identify solutions to solve your specific water needs.

Each seminar also features keynote and guest speakers from government, non-government, water associations, and other recognized industry authorities that will share their views on water reuse trends, regulatory landscape, and other topics of interest.

Who Should Attend?

• Plant Managers
• Environmental Managers and Engineers
• Facilities Managers
• Financial Officers
• Operations Managers
• Process Engineers
• Utility Managers
• Engineering Design Firms

Industries: Chemical Processing, General Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Power and Refining.

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Why Attend?

If you are considering water reuse or water recycle solutions, don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the technology available, where it is being applied, and where it can be applied. This interactive seminar can make a difference in your business today.

By attending, you will:

Learn how to Reduce Operational Costs, Capital Investment, and Protect Critical Assets

Explore ways to reduce the amount of water, energy, and treatment chemicals used in your process operations using industrial water reuse technologies. Reduce environmental compliance costs and capital investment by using leading technologies. Protect critical assets against corrosion, scaling and biofouling.

Participate in Interactive Breakout Sessions

Be part of interactive sessions packed with case history exercises, industry data, question and answer panels, and other tools to help you identify opportunities to reuse and recycle industrial wastewater at your facilities. For a complete listing of workshops available, refer to the specific city pages on this website.

Work with the Experts to Find Solutions to the World’s Biggest Challenge

Network with other industry experts, local regulatory authorities, scientists, and engineers and share your perspective on water scarcity issues. Visit the Solutions Lab during the customer seminar and learn first-hand about the latest water technologies.

Learn how to Make a Positive Impact on the Environment

Learn about water scarcity trends and strategies for sustainable water solutions. Enhance your company’s corporate citizenship image; learn how customers who have made process improvements and have positively impacted the environment (water and energy savings or waste reduction) are awarded with GE’s ecomagination leadership award.

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Registration Fees

A non-refundable registration fee per person is due when registering online, and payable with credit card. Actual fee will vary by location, refer to the specific city page for accurate fee information.

Registration is not guaranteed until payment has been processed and acknowledged.

Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Space is also limited for optional activities for each of the tour locations, and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

GE reserves the right to deny registration to those attendees that may present conflicts of interest or competitive situations with one or several GE businesses.

Attendees are responsible for their own travel, transportation, and accommodation costs.

For questions, please contact us

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Agenda

The World Water Tour’s highly technical and educational program includes a series of guest speakers, followed by panel discussion and interactive technology breakout sessions. Please refer to each city page for the specific agenda at each location.

Some of the workshops offered (may vary by location) include:

Breakout Sessions

"Membranes vs. Conventional Technologies"
Water consumption is dramatically affected by the type of pre-treatment techniques employed to reduce ionic and suspended loading. The session will compare and contrast the differences among various types of pretreatment technologies including hot and cold lime softening, clarification and media and membrane filtration. Review capital and operating costs of the various UF technologies. Membrane systems to be discussed include RO, EDR, UF & EDI. Several case studies will be reviewed.

"Technologies for Reuse and Conservation"
In this interactive breakout session, we will review the technologies used to enable water reuse and conservation within a total site and then present a variety of case studies highlighting the technologies in action. We will touch on four areas including water optimization, internal reuse, utilization of alternate makeup water sources and wastewater reuse within a site. Under optimization, this session will look at both cooling and boiler systems and how through proper operation and chemistry improvement, water use can be significantly reduced. The remainder of the session will have a heavy emphasis on the various types of equipment used today for water and wastewater treatment such as MBRs and specialized metal removal technology. Finally, for those situations where no water can be discharged from a site, this session will touch on Zero Liquid Discharge Technologies.

"Emergency Services"
This session will review a process for dealing with water related emergencies at your facility and will review the various types of mobile equipment that can be used to minimize the negative impact of a failure of permanent equipment within your facility. We will discuss the tools which can be used to perform an audit or survey of your facility to recognize potential issues. Mitigation techniques such as design reviews, procedures and training will be discussed. A case study will be highlighted on how one plant leveraged mobile water treatment.

"Energy Conservation"
This interactive session will focus on the tools and techniques used to identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption in a facility. This session will review a high level process to assess plant input, leverage expertise and implement recommendations. Specific case studies at a food processing plant, cogen unit and boiler plant will be reviewed.

Plenary Session Presentations

"Water, the Next More Valuable Commodity"
As water scarcity becomes a pressing issue around the globe affecting industry, agriculture, and communities, it is imperative to understand the magnitude of this emerging crisis. This presentation will provide an outlook of water scarcity trends and sustainability challenges from a global perspective with a futuristic look at the water situation in 2015.

Technology Session: "Progression and Trends of Water Technology"
Explore the evolution of water technologies over the past decade, and take an in-depth look at technology available today. Learn about advantages, disadvantages, and applications of the solutions available in the market today. Understand how to best utilize this technology in your facilities to build the most efficient and effective system for your water needs.

"Strategies for Sustainable Water: the Plant of Tomorrow"
Customers of the future are taking actions today to reuse, reduce, and recycle. Improve your strategic vision and action plans for your plant of the future by learning how to lower the water consumption at your facility, improve water quality, and produce or find new sources of water. Learn how these elements are integrated in the plant of the future to build complete and sustainable solutions.

"ecomagination"
ecomagination puts into practice GE’s belief that financial and environmental performance can work together to drive company growth, while taking on some of the world’s biggest challenges. Learn about our commitment to products and services that are as economically advantageous as they are ecologically sound. Be part of the solution and learn how your company can be recognized for its socially responsible practices and be presented with an ecomagination Leadership Award.

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