Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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ASTM to develop standard for fracking water quality
The US standards body ASTM International is to develop standards to be used by contract laboratories, water utilities and other requiring or developing methods for hydraulic fracturing in the oil & gas industry.
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Ex-Veolia chief joins board of Spain’s FCC
Spanish contractor FCC, which in consortium with Aqualia has built desalination plants including Bajo Almanzora in Spain and Guía de Isora in the Canaries, has appointed Olivier Orsini, former secretary general of Veolia Environnement to its board.
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Desalination units in Degrémont offshore contract in Brazil
Desalination and sulphate-removal systems are to be supplied by Degrémont to two Brazilian floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels under an order placed by Tupi BV, a subsidiary of Petrobras.
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Details published of AMTA/SCMA Texas workshop
The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) has released details of the technology transfer workshop it is holding in Texas in September in conjunction with the South Central Membrane Association.
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MEDRC announces solar desalination course
The Middle East Desalination Research Center is to hold a course on Solar Desalination in October 2013 at its Muscat, Oman, training facility.
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Ion exchange + ceramic MF for UK water treatment plant
A water treatment plant using suspended ion-exchange (SIX) and ceramic microfiltration is to be built by the UK’s South West Water using CeraMac technology from PWN Technologies of the Netherlands.
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ERI Q Series chosen for Acciona project in Chile
Spanish contractor Acciona Agua has chosen Energy Recovery Inc (ERI) energy-recovery equipment for its contract for the Minera CAP expansion desalination project in the Copiapó Valley in Chile’s Atacama Region III, ERI announced on 16 July 2013.
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WateReuse RFP seeks to advance DPR take‑up
The WateReuse Research Foundation has issued a request for proposals under its Solicited Research Program and Feasibility Studies Program for a communication plan for promoting direct potable reuse (DPR).
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IDE in talks with Hawaii desalination plant proposer
Desalination designer and builder IDE Technologies has confirmed to D&WR that it has been talking with billionaire Larry Ellison, who is proposing to build a 2.5 MGD (9,500 m³/d) seawater desalination plant on the island of Lanai.
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Nuverra/Haliburton accord on produced-water treatment
Nuverra Environmental Solutions Inc, which until mid-May 2013 was known as Heckmann Corporation, announced on 15 July 2013 that it has entered into an agreement with Halliburton to advance the treatment and recycling of produced water to be reused in the hydraulic fracturing process.