TREVOSE, PA.—March 16, 2009— Building on more than 20 years of experience with ultrafiltration (UF) membrane technology, GE Water, a business unit of GE Energy, is expanding its family of ZeeWeed UF products with the introduction of the ZeeWeed 1500.

The new pressurized ZeeWeed 1500 module offers cost-effective, skid-mounted solutions that can be rapidly installed for water treatment, tertiary filtration and pretreatment for brackish and seawater desalination. It is available for small- and medium-sized packaged and custom designs for municipal and industrial plants and joins GE’s growing portfolio of products designed to tackle global water challenges.

“The evolution of the ZeeWeed 1500 leverages decades of UF membrane experience earned at some of the world’s most demanding water and wastewater applications,” said Heiner Markhoff, president and CEO, GE Water. “The addition of a new pressurized membrane expands the versatility of our portfolio and provides our clients with a broader choice of robust, cost-effective products to help achieve their treatment needs.”

Key features of the ZeeWeed 1500 include:

• Low-fouling PVDF membrane chemistry offering lower frequency and less aggressive cleaning;
• Outside-in filtration process providing uniform flow distribution and solids loading with no blocked fibers;
• Ultrafiltration barrier to produce high quality effluent that meets the toughest treatment requirements;
• Lower chemical usage over comparable systems ;
• Compact module and simple rack design, with on-rack inspection capability;
• Ability to retrofit other outside-in UF and MF systems.

The ZeeWeed 1500 leverages the proven performance of GE’s ecomagination-certified ZeeWeed technology and offers similar environmental benefits such as high water recovery and reduced plant footprint. Ecomagination is GE’s corporate-wide initiative to help customers address today’s environmental challenges, such as the need for cleaner, more efficient sources of energy, reduced emissions and abundant sources of clean water.

Available in standard and custom designs for small and medium-sized plants, the ZeeWeed 1500 provides a cost-effective solution that can be rapidly delivered and installed. As a lower-cost pressurized system offering simplified construction, quick installation and high quality water treatment, the new product is well suited for projects in emerging markets worldwide.

ZeeWeed is an advanced ultrafiltration technology that uses hollow-fiber membranes to separate particles from water. This technology produces superior quality drinking water by removing virtually all harmful pathogens and suspended solids. The UF membranes can restore wastewater to such high quality that it can be safely discharged to the most sensitive environments, or reused in irrigation, industrial processes or groundwater recharge. To date, more than 900 GE ZeeWeed systems have been installed worldwide.

About GE Energy

GE Energy (www.ge.com/energy) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies, with 2008 revenue of $29.3 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy works in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas; and other alternative fuels. Numerous GE Energy products are certified under ecomagination, GE’s corporate-wide initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.

About GE

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