Author: Water. Desalination + reuse

Canada’s H2O Innovation Inc announced on 6 April 2011 the opening of a 10,000 ft² (929 m²) manufacturing plant for its Indian joint-venture H2O Innovation India Ltd near Vadodara, Gujarat.

Ras Az Zawr to have DAF/DMF pretreatment from Enpure

Apr 5, 2011

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Pretreatment for the reverse osmosis (RO) section of the world’s largest seawater desalination plant at Ras Az Zawr (or Ras Azzour) in Saudi Arabia is to be by dissolved air flotation (DAF) and dual-media filtration (DMF).

VWS Westgarth bags Angolan offshore UF/SRP contract

Apr 5, 2011

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A multimillion dollar contract for design, supply and delivery of an ultrafiltration (UF) system and a sulphate-removal package (SRP) for offshore oilfield exploration in Angola has been won by UK-based VWS Westgarth, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies.

Hermasillo desalination plan rejected

Apr 5, 2011

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The water commission for the Mexican state of Sonora (Comisión Estatal del Agua – CEA) has apparently rejected the idea of a desalination plant for the state capital Hermosillo.

First funding made by Australian water-reuse centre  

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Australia’s Water Recycling Centre of Excellence (WRCE) has awarded Aus$ 200,000 (US$ 207,000) in funding to its first project – the development of a National Validation Framework for water reuse.  

Australian desalination centre launches new funding round

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Australia’s National Centre of Excellence In Desalination (NCED) has announced that its next funding round is now open for Expressions of Interest (EOIs)from Participating Organisations (NCED members).

Membranes reclaim aggressive produced water from California oilfield

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Increasingly, membrane technologies are finding a place in the oil and gas industry, in the USA and Australia in particular, for dealing with the difficult wastewaters that arise from the extraction process. This article describes how, in a Californian oilfield, a reverse-osmosis process has operated for two years at high pH for the removal of…

Giant S African power plant to have maximum water reuse

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Maximum water reuse for what will be one of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants in South Africa is to be provided by GE under a US$ 40 million contract.

Sinochem setting up seawater desalination industrial base

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