Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Saudi EDR plant to be retrofitted as RO
A project to retrofit the first stage of the existing electrodialysis-reversal plant at Quayiah Water Treatment Plant in Saudi Arabia into a 2,500 m³/d reverse-osmosis unit has been won by Technology Experts Co (TE) of Riyadh.
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Floating Saudi desalination barges relaunched
Saudi Arabia’s two floating water desalination barges have been moved from Shuquaiq to Yanbu, and the first was relaunched on 7 July 2010 by Fehied F Al-Shareef, governor of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and Engineer Nabil Azmaruli, general manager of the General Directorate of Water in Al-Madina.
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BEL Iberica gets ASME authorization
BEL Composite Iberica SL, the Spanish subsidiary of membrane pressure-vessel manufacturer BEL Group Ltd announced on 6 July 2010 that it has recently been certified by the ASME Board with an ‘RP’ Stamp certification.
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Singapore company wins UF reuse plant in UAE
Boustead Singapore’s subsidiary Salcon has won an AED 55 million (US$ 5.6 million) contract to design, engineer and construct a new ultrafiltration wastewater reuse plant.
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Indians providing MBR wastewater treatment in Africa
Indian water technology provider Shivsu Canadian Clear International Ltd has won orders worth US$ 6 million from private organizations and governments in Africa to set up membrane-based industrial wastewater treatment plants in Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
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T-Rack UF system further improved
German membrane water treatment manufacturer inge watertechnologies AG has further improved its T-Rack system for its Multibore® ultrafiltration (UF) modules, making it more compact.
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Kemira collaboration seeks new desalination and reuse processes
Improved membrane desalination and wastewater reuse processes is the objective of a new research cooperation effort between global water chemicals company Kemira Oyj and the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre (SMTC) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
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Keppel to build membrane-distillation demonstration plant
A membrane-distillation desalination demonstration plant powered by waste heat is to be built as part of research by the Keppel Environmental Technology Centre (KETC) in Singapore, using Keppel’s Memstill technology.
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Ozwater conference papers due 2 September 2010
Papers have been invited on behalf of the Australian Water Association, an affiliate of the International Desalination Association, for the Ozwater ’11 conference on 9-11 May 2011.
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Singapore funds more desalination research
Desalination membrane improvements and a combined heating, cooling and desalination system are among six research proposals granted about Sing$ 1 million (US$ 710,000) in research funding on 30 June 2010 by Singapore’s Environment & Water Industry Programme Office (EWI).