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Water Packaging Equipment (WPE)

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WPE that enables potable water from any nearby source to be packaged into convenient, light and robust sachets. This allows provision of clean and potable water to military personnel in operational situations or distribution in areas of natural disaster where the normal water supply has been disrupted.

Key Features: Potential Benefits:
  • Produces rugged hermetically sealed sachets of water from readily available reels of food grade polyethylene sheets
  • Variable sachet size
    Self-contained within a truck, trailer or helicopter portable frame
  • Stand alone including header tank, and control system
  • May be supplied with or without a generator set to meet system power requirements
  • Throughput approx 1350 L/HR
  • Weight including generator set 1900Kg
  • Size including generator set: W 1.7m, H 1.5m, L 2.16m
  • Provides a personal water ration
  • Minimises risk of contamination and tampering is readily evident
  • The packaged water is suitable for long term storage
  • Distribution is a one-way chain, there are no empty containers to be collected
  • There is no need to provide customised vehicles for bulk water transportation
  • There is minimal waste in the distribution system, water does not have to be decanted at any stage
  • Minimal consumables, being only fuel and the food-grade polyethylene rolls
  • Individual sachets are designed to withstand normal air dropping and handling
  • No energy is wasted in transporting containers, since their weight is negligible and they do not have to be returned
  • Water supplements may be added
  • Rapid deployment

 

 

 

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