Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Graphene frameworks ‘can make desalination 100x faster’
New computational research on graphene sheets is showing that, when oxidized sheets are linked together as graphene oxide frameworks (GOFs), they can be used as a tunable desalination membrane.
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Deadline soon for NWRI-AMTA Fellowship applications
Only one month remains before the American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) and the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) close applications for the NWRI-AMTA Fellowships for Membrane Technology.
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Abengoa Water’s expansion driven by pure R&D
Carlos Cosin Fernandez is currently the chairman and CEO of Abengoa Water, the water subsidiary of Abengoa Group, which has constructed desalination plants in Spain, North Africa, India and China, and is now looking at Latin America. Here he talks to D&WR editor, Robin Wiseman. This article first appeared in the February/March 2014 issue of…
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Largest desalination plant produces its first water
Production of water has started at what will be the largest desalination facility in the world, the 1,025 million m³/d Ras al-Khair (Ras Azzour) seawater plant northwest of Jubail in Saudi Arabia.
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Desalination pilot-study funding approved for Corpus Christi
A further step towards a future seawater desalination plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, was taken on 22 April 2014, when the city council approved funding for a pilot study to be undertaken by Freese & Nichols Inc.
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Public meeting set for San Joaquin water reuse EIS
The US Bureau of Reclamation has set a public scoping meeting for 13 May 2014 as part of the environmental impact statement (EIS) process for the proposed North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program (NVRRWP) in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
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Doosan chooses BEL for Escondida pressure‑vessels
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has chosen BEL reverse‑osmosis (RO) membrane pressure‑vessels for its Escondida seawater RO project in Chile.
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Heat-responsive gels used to coat MF/UF membranes
Applying thermoresponsive microgels to micro- and ultrafiltration (MF and UF) membranes can allow flow to be influenced by temperature variations, according to new research from RWTH Aachen University and DWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Germany.
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WRRF webcasts to tackle communicating with the public
The WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF) is holding two webcasts in early May 2014 dealing with communication with the public about desalination and other contentious issues.
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Solar mobile desalination plant inaugurated in Egypt
The Egyptian State Information Service reported that a mobile water desalination plant powered by solar energy was inaugurated in Marsa Matrouh governorate on 18 April 2014.