Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Tunisia desalination project completes feasibility check
Tunisia’s National Water Company has completed a feasibility study for a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant to be located at Zaarat, in the south east of the country. The plant will be constructed in two 50,000 m³/d phases.
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Degrémont eyes desalination contracts in Mexico
French water services company Degrémont is seeking to participate in a public tender to construct a desalination plant in three Mexican states according to a Mexican state news outlet.
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Santa Barbara OKs US$644k desalination study funding
US city, Santa Barbara, has approved US$ 644,000 to fund studies needed before its dormant desalination plant can reopen. Without the plant the city faces a potential water supply crisis.
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Carbon sponge could decarbonize desalination
Researchers in the US have unveiled a new device that could be used in a solar-powered, near-equivalent of flash distillation to improve the sustainability of seawater desalination.
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Dow signs Fluor to build new Saudi desalination component factory
The Dow Chemical Company has appointed Fluor Corporation to build a new factory to manufacture reverse osmosis components for desalination plants in Saudi Arabia.
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Graham city looks at potable reuse to tackle drought
The city council for Graham, Texas has been advised that reusing effluent would be the most cost effective and efficient water conservation option and plan.
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Tata power plant installs cooling water reuse
India’s largest power company, Tata Power, has installed a reverse osmosis plant at its Power House #6 power station in Jamshedpur to recover and reuse blow-down water from cooling towers.
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Turner oil detector set for Carlsbad giant desalination plant
Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments has won a contract to install its TD-4100 XDC E09 oil-in-water monitor at the US$ 1 billion Carlsbad desalination plant currently under construction in California.
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Indian steel firm plans new desalination plant
Indian state-run steel firm Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) is planning to set up a desalination plant to make up for the shortfall in water supply to its Visakhapatnam steel plant (VSP) on the country’s east coast and become self-reliant in water.
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Namibian uranium mine ponders desalination project
Namibian uranium mining firm Rössing Uranium is investigating the economic viability of designing, constructing and operating a new desalination plant to supply its operation in the economically important Erongo Region where water is scarce.