Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Execution of a Chinese desalination project at minus 20°C
How do you design a thermal desalination plant where the driven force is steam with a wide range of pressures? And how can the project cope with hostile environmental conditions such as temperatures that drop below minus 20 C? This article describes how IDE Technologies overcame the challenges of building a multi-effect distillation plant in…
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Scholarship announcement soon from Australian desalination research centre
Australia’s National Centre of Excellence in Desalination (NCED) is set to announce its second round of PhD Supplementary Scholarships on 21 June 2011, having assessed 13 applications.
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El Salitral desalination bids to close in July
The Comisión Estatal del Agua (CEA) in the state of Baja California, Mexico, is expecting between five and eight firm offers when tenders close on 22 July 2011 for the El Salitral seawater desalination plant in Ensenada.
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Amiad filters provide pretreatment in Brazilian UF reuse project
Disc filters are to be supplied by Amiad Filtration Systems Ltd to protect ultrafiltration membranes in the Aquapolo tertiary wastewater treatment and reuse project in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Self-cleaning FRP filters introduced for salty water
A range of self-cleaning filters in fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) designed for brackish, brine and seawater applications such as desalination has been introduced by Forsta Filters in the USA.
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KMS promotes Singh to VP of technology
Manwinder (Manny) Singh has been promoted to senior vice president, technology, by desalination membrane supplier Koch Membrane Systems Inc (KMS).
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Desalination pretreatment choices launched by ITT
A choice of custom-designed reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination pretreatment systems is being launched by ITT Corporation in the USA this week at the American Water Works Association’s conference in Washington, DC, prior to a global launch at the International Desalination Association World Congress in Perth, Australia, in September.
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Aquatech awarded SWRO plant in Ras Al Kaimah
Aquatech is to build a 15 MIGD (68,000 m³/d) seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination facility at Ghalilah for the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
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Ovivo to be ‘selective’ about desalination projects
Releasing its fourth quarter financial results on 9 June 2011, Canadian water/pulp and paper group GLV Inc reported progress in its Ovivo water treatment group, formed when the company took over Christ Water Technology AG in 2009, but expressed reservations about its desalination operations.
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Argentine spacecraft to map ocean salinity
An Argentine-built spacecraft is set to blast off on 10 June 2011 from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California carrying instrumentation to measure the saltiness of the world’s oceans.