Desalination & Water Reuse - All the latest Research

Kemira collaboration seeks new desalination and reuse processes

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Improved membrane desalination and wastewater reuse processes is the objective of a new research cooperation effort between global water chemicals company Kemira Oyj and the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Keppel to build membrane-distillation demonstration plant

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A membrane-distillation desalination demonstration plant powered by waste heat is to be built as part of research by the Keppel Environmental Technology Centre (KETC) in Singapore, using Keppel's Memstill technology.

Singapore funds more desalination research

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Desalination membrane improvements and a combined heating, cooling and desalination system are among six research proposals granted about Sing$ 1 million (US$ 710,000) in research funding on 30 June 2010 by Singapore's Environment & Water Industry Programme Office (EWI).

Singapore's Changi plant to be used as MBR testbed

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Singapore's newly commissioned membrane bioreactor (MBR) system at the Changi Water Reclamation Plant is to be used as an MBR testing facility.

Water research hub launched in South Australia

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A new Aus$ 50 million (US$ 41 million) water research institute will be established in South Australia to help secure and manage the state's water supply.

US government funding desalination research

Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Funding for research and laboratory studies, pilot-scale projects and demonstration projects in desalination and water purification is to be made available by the US federal Bureau of Reclamation.

Micropollutants web database launched in Texas

Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Texas Tech University Center for Water Law and Policy Center has launched the Micropollutants Clearinghouse (www.micropollutants.org), a website that provides an online, publically accessible, research resource on the legal, regulatory, institutional, policy and related scientific aspects of micropollutants in freshwater systems.

Clemson University desalination collaboration signed

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Water Enabled Technologies LLC (WET) of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate in a joint research effort to develop existing and future products in the field of water desalination.

Breakthrough wastewater treatment collaboration sought

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Open-innovation service-provider NineSigma is looking to identify and fund companies working on breakthrough water treatment technologies to collaborate with a group of four Global 500 companies and subsidiaries. Responses are required by 28 May 2010.

NanoH2O gets US Navy grant for shipboard desalination research

Fri, 7 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A US$ 400,000 grant has been awarded by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) to desalination membrane developer NanoH2O for evaluation of its high-flux membranes for shipboard desalination system.

MD plant to be used for contaminant removal trials

Sat, 1 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Membrane distillation (MD) is to be used by IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and the Royal Institute of Technology, both in Stockholm, Sweden, for removal of a large range of contaminants in water and wastewater, notably pharmaceuticals, and also desalination discharges.

Nine projects to be launched by WateReuse Foundation

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A project to ensure that the technology used to reclaim wastewater is fit for purpose was one of nine approved by the WateReuse Foundation's Board of Directors at its meeting on 16 March 2010.

Polymer brush layer is key to new fouling-resistant membrane

Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A new class of fouling-resistant reverse-osmosis (RO) membranes has been announced by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) which are claimed to have low mineral-scaling propensity and high permeability.

China is researching desalination of sea ice

Tue, 6 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chinese scientists believe that ice in the Bohai and Yellow seas could become an important alternative freshwater source, according to the Chinese Xinhua news agency.

WRF launches an RFP for reuse system framework

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The WateReuse Foundation (WRF) made a new Request for Proposals (RFP) on 31 March 2010 for a research project to provide a Framework for Informed Planning Decisions Regarding Indirect Potable Reuse and Dual Pipe Systems (WRF-09-02).

June deadline for WERF award submissions

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The deadline is 1 June 2010 for submissions for the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) Paul L Busch award.

Ion polarization at heart of new desalination research

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A new desalination method using ion-selective membranes has been reported in Nature Nanotechnology by four researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Pohang University of Science and Technology (PUST), Korea.

Concentrate disposal guidance from WRF/WERF research

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A cooperative research effort, led by the WateReuse Foundation and co-funded by the Water Environment Research Federation, is providing utility managers and others with needed guidance and resources for addressing concentrate disposal issues.

Pilot MBR to treat refinery wastewater

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Petroleum Environmental Research Forum (PERF) has selected Siemens Water Technologies to provide a Petro membrane bioreactor (MBR) pilot unit to test the viability of the technology in treating refinery wastewater.

Australian membrane workshop set for June 2010

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Australian Water Association (AWA) is to hold a Membrane Cluster Workshop in conjunction with the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on 9 June 2010 in Sydney.