Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Saudis to build second expansion to Oman desalination plant at Barka
Saudi generation and desalination firm, ACWA Power Barka has won a contract with Oman Power and Water Procurement (OPWP) to build a second seawater reverse osmosis plant at Barka 60km from the Omani capital, Muscat.
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Treatment of process effluent water for reuse in food production
Effluent water reuse in the food industry raises inevitable questions about the risk and reliability of wastewater treatment and recovery processes in meeting the required standards. The author looks at how two food processing facilities adopted process water recovery and reuse shows how the benefits can be a maximized and how the challenges live among…
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The real value of commercial-scale testing
While product development is a commercial must the payback on investment in testing is possibly less clear. Dow explains how it sees a smoother path to market with the confidence gained from testing in its home-spun, real-world test centre. This article first appeared in the November/December 2014 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.
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Ghana completes 65 Ml/d seawater desalination plant near Accra
Ghana has completed its 65 Ml/d Teshie-Nungua seawater desalination water project.
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New York watchdog throws out Suez desalination proposal
The New York State utility regulator has rejected a proposal by a Suez Environnement subsidiary, United Water, for the first desalination plant on the Hudson River north of New York City.
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Go small and local on desalination warns Saudi water expert
President of the Saudi Water and Power Forum (SWPF) Dr Adil Bushnak, has warned that Saudi Arabia must end its rising dependence on “costly” centralised desalination plants.
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Commission approves California American Water test slant well
The California Coastal Commission has approved the application by water utility, California American Water, (Cal Am) to construct a test slant well for its proposed 48 Ml/d seawater reverse osmosis desalination project.
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Israel Chemical puts IDE up for sale
Israel Chemicals (ICL) is selling its desalination engineering arm, IDE Technologies. The decision to dispose of the business followed days of speculation after the chemical firm announced a plan to focus on its core interests.
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Africa’s largest desalination plant opens
Singapore-based desalination company, Hyflux, has officially opened its recently completed 500,000 m³/d desalination plant at Magtaa, Algeria. The facility is Africa’s biggest and contains the largest ultrafiltration pre-treatment facility in the world according to Hyflux.
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Denmark’s Aquaporin in US$ 10 million Chinese joint venture
Chinese water treatment company, Heilongjiang Interchina, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Danish water purification specialist Aquaporin and Chinese environmental engineering company Poten Environment Group to set up joint venture in China.