Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Sumitomo grouping ahead for Kuwait power/desalination
A consortium of Sumitomo Corporation, International Power-GDF Suez and Abdullah Hamad Al Sagar and Bros Co has been declared preferred bidder for the Az Zour North Independent Power & Water Project in Kuwait.
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Turpin takes on Parkson marketing brief
Mark Turpin has been appointed vice president of strategic marketing and business development for Parkson Corporation, the US advanced water and wastewater treatment provider.
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BEL lands Kuwait desalination supply contract
Murcia-based BEL Composite Iberica SL has been awarded a contract by Veolia subsidiary OTV to supply pressure-vessels to the Az Zour South desalination project in Kuwait.
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Sadyt chooses ERI pressure-exchangers for Ashdod
Israel’s giant Ashdod desalination plant is to use PX-Q300 energy-recovery pressure-exchangers supplied by Energy Recovery Inc (ERI) of the USA.
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Australian researchers report portable CDI trial
A portable capacitive deionisation (CDI) desalination unit being developed and tested by the University of South Australia has demonstrated sufficient salinity and hardness removal ability.
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Furukawa notes red-tide lessons
Clear messages need to be taken from the recent workshop on red tides held in Oman, according to veteran desalter David Furukawa, chief scientific officer of the Australian National Centre for Excellence in Desalination (NCEDA).
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Proposals invited for Oman’s Al Ghubrah desalination
The Oman Power & Water Procurement Company issued a request for proposals to prequalified bidders on 4 March 2012 for a build-own-operate contract for the construction of a desalination-based independent water project (IWP) in Al Ghubrah with a capacity of 42 MIGD (191,000 m³/d).
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MEDRC to stage World Water Forum event
The Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) is to stage a side event at the 6th World Water Forum, which takes place in Marseille, France, on 12-17 March 2012.
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Fuel cell/EDR hybrid powers its own wastewater treatment
A hybrid device using electrodialysis reversal (EDR) developed at Pennsylvania State University could be used to treat wastewater using the wastewater itself as fuel.
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X-Flow UF pretreatment chosen for Al Zawrah SWRO
Cadagua SA has chosen ultrafiltration (UF) pretreatment from Pentair X-Flow for the Al Zawrah seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in Ajman, United Arab Emirates.