Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Leading desalters to address AWA university meeting
In conjunction with the University of Adelaide, the Australian Water Association is presenting two lectures at the university in the evening of 27 July 2011 from leading desalination figures on Desalination: Future Directions for Australia’s World Class Facilities.
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Desalitech building demo plant with Layne Christensen
The originator of the Closed Circuit Desalination (CCD™) technology, Desalitech Ltd, announced on 30 June 2011 that it will work with mineral and water drilling and treatment company Layne Christensen to design and build an innovative desalination system.
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Desalination help published with WHO drinking water standards
The World Health Organization launched the 4th edition of its Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality (ISBN: 978 92 4 154815 1) at the Singapore Water Week on 4 July 2011 – and also launched a separate guide for desalination.
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Australian government to fund stormwater reuse
The government of Australia has invited funding applications by 7 December 2011 for support of stormwater harvesting and reuse projects.
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Details of AMTA/SWMOA joint workshop published
A brochure is now available on the American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) website for the joint AMTA/Southwest Membrane Operator Assocation technology transfer workshop in Sacramento, California, on 27-29 September 2011.
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Innovation conference part of new Amsterdam water week
Amsterdam’s biennial Aquatech exhibition, the leading water exhibition in Europe, has been subsumed into an International Water Week like those in Stockholm and Singapore.
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Memstar set to mass-produce improved PVDF membrane
Singapore membrane manufacturer Memstar announced on 1 July 2011 that it is now ready for mass production of its newly launched TIPS PVDF hollow-fibre membrane and related products.
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Finns land supervision contract for Ras Az Zawr power and desalination
An owner’s engineering services contract for the Ras Az Zawr Power & Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia has been awarded by the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) to the energy business group of Finnish firm Pöyry.
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Chennai III consultant to be chosen this month
India’s Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board will choose a consultant in July 2011 to prepare a detailed project report for a 200,000 m³/d desalination plant at Pattipulam, a few kilometres away from the 100,000 m³/d Nemmeli desalination plant due for completion in December.
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Dutch to build ceramic membrane demo plant in Singapore
PWN Technologies (PWNT) of the Netherlands is to build Singapore’s first ceramic membrane demonstration plant at Choa Chu Kang Waterworks.