Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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New Ovivo Middle East base
Desalination and water treatment company Aqua EPC LLC, which was bought this year with the rest of the Christ group by the Canadian company GLV, has moved its Middle East office.
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November deadline for Singapore papers
Papers have been invited for the Water Convention held as part of the Singapore International Water Week, 4-8 July 2011.
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New Zealand district to install Zeeweed MBR system
Rotorua District Council, New Zealand, is to install advanced bacteria-removing membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for the upgrade to its wastewater treatment plant using GE’s Zeeweed 500d ultrafiltration technology.
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MSF/FBE seawater desalination and fouling hypersaline wastewater treatment
The Multi-Stage Flash/Fluidised Bed Evaporator (MSF/FBE) is not strictly a new technology, but the applications suggested in this article are new. It is claimed to halve the costs of distillate production compared with most advanced conventional MSFs and is suggested as a way to expand existing MSF plants. Another application is the wind-powered MSF/FBE for…
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BEL, Dow and Hydranautics to supply Sorek
BEL Composite Industries Ltd has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract to supply nearly 2,000 units of 16-in side-port pressure vessels for the Sorek seawater desalination plant in Israel.
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Cadagua lands RO desalination plant in UAE
The UAE’s Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA), responsible for supplying water and electricity in the northern emirates, has given Spanish contractor Cadagua a letter of intent for the award of a reverse-osmosis desalination plant in Al Zawrah, Ajman.
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Impregilo launches desalination joint venture with Chinese
Impregilo, Italy’s largest construction company, which owns desalination specialist Fisia Italimpianti, signed a letter of intent on 7 October 2010 with Shanghai Electric Group, Mandarin Capital Partners (MCP) and China Development Bank Securities (CDBS) to cooperate in the desalination industry.
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Russians award Aqua-Chem SWRO contract
The Russian government has ordered the second phase of a 10,000 m³/d seawater reverse-osmosis desalination system from Matrix, a division of Aqua-Chem Inc of Florida, USA.
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Water-cycle intensity may be increasing, say researchers
Researchers based primarily in California have published a global assessment of freshwater discharge to the oceans which suggests that the rate of the hydrological cycle may be increasing.
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Desalination for Peace motif for record-breaking EuroMed conference
“I believe that desalination is a key issue in peace,” said Uri Shani, chairman of Israel’s Water Authority, at the opening ceremony of the EuroMed 2010 – Desalination for Clean Water & Energy Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 4 October 2010.