Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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‘The water business needs consolidating’, Dick Heckmann, PolyCera Membranes, board director
Richard ‘Dick’ Heckmann, founder in 1990 of US Filter, a business he sold nine years later for $8.2 billion, tells Water. desal + reuse why the water business needs consolidating, why he’s backing PolyCera Membranes, and why California is ‘the stupidest state on the planet’
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Five Minutes With: Joe Gifford, Nanostone vice president of research and development
Joe Gifford, who is listed as an inventor on water technology patents in the US and globally, is Nanostone’s new vice president of research and development
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REVOLUTIONIZING THE RECOVERY OF A BRACKISH WATER RO
October 4th 2018 12:00 Chile time The webinar will cover one of the greatest challenges currently facing the water treatment sector – brine management. A unique webinar focusing on the latest brine management technologies. Join us for a review of IDE’s MAXH2O brine management technologies and learn about: Brine volume minimization and ZLD technologies Our…
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World-first study of brine outfall shows minimal impacts
A first-of-its-kind study of the impacts to marine life of a desalination plant’s brine outfall into the ocean has found that the effect on the local ecology is minimal.
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Penn State models membrane’s internal structure with microscopy
A team of researchers at Penn State university has used the latest in microscopy to model the internal structure of a desalination membrane, seeking to improve the technology.
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IDE Technologies ‘breaks recovery limits’ for BWRO brine
IDE Technologies has introduced new system MAXH2O, which is designed to improve recovery rates in brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) brine.
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LG Chem wins brackish water business in California, US
LG Chem has entered the brackish water reverse osmosis (RO) market, winning contracts to supply its NanoH20 membranes from utilities in California, US.
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Amiad outlines contract on Tuas Desalination Plant
Amiad has outlined details of the ultra-filtration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membranes it supplied to Tuas Desalination Plant, which opened officially in June 2018.
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Proton compares closed-circuit versus conventional RO
Proton anti-scaling software from Amercian Water Chemicals was first introduced at the AMTA Conference in 2014. The platform’s innovative approach to modelling membrane treatment systems which, unlike other anti-scalant predictors, accounts for ion complexes and ion activity in water, and differentiates between nano-filtration and reverse osmosis membranes, enabled it to improve on the accuracy of…
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Suez and Rosneft to build on ‘exploratory agreement’
Suez’s new agreement with Russian oil and gas giant Rosneft, signed in May 2018, aims to support improved water treatment across the oil company’s vast portfolio.
