Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Swiss water treatment to use PAC/UF combination
Wabag Water Technology has announced two water-treatment contracts in Switzerland based on ultrafiltration (UF) and worth around € 6 million which were won by the company at the end of 2012.
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Disk-filters to protect Ashdod UF membranes
Filtration manufacturer Amiad has signed a contract, valued at US$ 1.67 million, to provide an Arkal Super Galaxy automatic disc filtration system (SpinKlin R) for the protection of ultrafiltration membranes at Israel’s 100 million m³/year Ashdod Desalination Plant.
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Feasibility started for South African desalination plant
A feasibility study is underway in South Africa’s Northern Cape for a 7,000 m³/d seawater desalination plant at Abraham Villiers Bay close to the town of Kotzesrus.
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IWA looks at organic matter in treatment and reuse
The International Water Association (IWA) is holding a specialist conference with the Australian Water Association (AWA) in Perth in October 2013 on natural organic matter (NOM), which will look at its effects on water treatment and reuse, and desalination.
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New website launched by Degrémont Industry
Industrial water-cycle specialist Degrémont Industry announced on 6 February 2013 that it is launching a new website.
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Huntingdon Beach desalination water cost estimated
Poseidon Resources estimates the cost of drinking water produced at its proposed 189,000 m³/d Huntington Beach facility in southern California to be US$ 1,424/acre-ft (US$ 1.15/m³) in January 2013 dollars.
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MPPE to strip hydrocarbons from LNG water
Macro porous polymer extraction (MPPE) is to be employed to reuse water contaminated with hydrocarbons on the world’s largest offshore floating facility 475 km northeast of Broome, Western Australia.
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Alamogordo test brings solar-still record
At the end of September 2012, desalination.biz reported that KII Inc and its Suns River brand had successfully started-up and operated its patented solar-still technology to produce safe water for human uses. Suns River demonstrated its technology at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, owned and operated by the US…
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Advanced turbidity meter launched by Palintest
A new Compact Turbimeter featuring QuadoptiX™ advanced testing technology has been launched by Palintest Ltd of the UK.
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ERD comparison tool developed by WateReuse project
A tool to allow engineers to evaluate commercially available energy-recovery devices (ERDs) for reverse-osmosis (RO) systems has been developed under a research project funded by the WateReuse Research Foundation.