Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Desalination with distinction
IDE Technologies (IDE) designed and operates three of the largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants in the world each with a cost per cubic metre of produced water among the lowest globally. This it accomplished despite a fourfold variability in the electricity price and demanding regulatory limits on boron, chloride and sodium concentrations. The key…
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Is low temperature the next hot prospect?
Membrane-based desalination has been the lead technology set in recent years but Thermal Purification Technologies thermal process could tick boxes for sustainability and cost with a system that uses low-quality heat to produce high purity water. So with a big hitter in Metito as its strategic partner with even bigger backers including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,…
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Researchers simplify oil and gas wastewater treatment
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have invented a process that they claim simplifies the treatment of oil and gas wastewater by simultaneously removing salts and organic contaminants while producing energy.
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Membrana filtration curbs corrosion in Disney Shanghai cooling
Membrane manufacturer Polypore has supplied its Membrana ultrafiltration units for Shanghai Disneyland to curb corrosion in the resort’s cooling water system.
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Azerbaijan nears completion of giant ultrafiltration plant
Azerbaijan’s national water operator Azersu OJSC has entered the final stages in its construction of a 520,000 m³/d ultrafiltration plant at Jeyranbatan water storage reservoir.
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Israel aids Pacific island with mobile desalinator
Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs is supplying a truck-mounted desalination facility to the Marshall islands in the Pacific ocean to help tackle the islands’ severe water shortage.
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Saudi poised for sevefold hike in water reuse
Unveiling a white paper highlighting government policy options for addressing water scarcity in Saudi Arabia, GE Power & Water said the kingdom was in a position to up its reuse of wastewater sevenfold to more than 240 million m³/year.
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Launch of Teshie-Nungua desalination project postponed
Ghana’s government has postponed the commissioning of the Teshie-Nungua desalination water project.
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Oman calls for tenders to build its largest desalination plant
Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has opened pre-qualification for the selection of a private developer to build Oman’s biggest independent water desalination project with a capacity of 531,000 m³/d.
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IDE claims production record at Ashkelon
Water treatment firm, IDE Technologies, has claimed that its seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant at Ashkelon, Israel, has reached a world record with 1 billion m³ of potable water produced since the start of its operation in 2005.