Author: Water. Desalination + reuse
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Large Diameter RO Desalination Elements
In recent years, increasing the diameter of spiral elements has been studied as a method of lowering the cost of membrane treatment. It has been shown that the installed cost of a reverse osmosis (RO) plant can be reduced by up to 27% using larger diameter elements.Large diameter elements provide savings in footprint and building…
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Desalination Concentrate Disposal: Salt Production For Zero-Discharge System
Since large-scale desalination started, the question of how to dispose of the reject material produced by the process has occupied the minds of engineers and economists. The quantity of brine discharged from desalination plants is increasing, and this trend will be maintained for the near future. The minerals extracted must have a value, but how…
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Sydney’s SWRO desalination project – working towards sustainability
Sydney’s desalination project will produce 250,000 m /d of drinking water, which equates to approximately 15% of Sydney’s supply. Sydney is currently solely reliant on surrounding dams for water. Seawater desalination will form a supplementary water source with water from the plant directly injected into Sydney’s drinking water network. In planning for the plant, Sydney…
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Solar powered desalination plant to open in Dubai this month: reports
A 50-cubic-meter-per-day desalination plant powered by solar energy is set to be launched in Dubai later this month, according to Utilities- me.com.
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Red Sea-Dead Sea secures EIB backing
The landmark Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project has come a step closer to reality with Jordan signing a technical cooperation agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Agence Française de Développement.
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Welcome to Water Planet
It’s 9am in California and Eric Hoek is speaking from his car. Fresh from dropping his two pre-schoolers off for the day, the former UCLA engineering professor turned CEO is ready to concentrate on his other ‘babies’ – the two divisions of Water Planet, the water tech company he started with private investment following his…
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Accelerate H20 launches demonstration hub in El Paso
Accelerate H20 has launched a demonstration hub for technologies to reuse and reclaim water in El Paso, Texas.
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Desalination capacity expanded in Barbados
The capacity of an existing desalination plant in Barbados will be expanded by three million gallons, according to local media outlet Nation News.
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Qatari research aims to
The Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC) and Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop two pilot projects that could ‘radically reduce the cost and energy use’ of desalination.
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Qatar backs Palestinian water projects
The Qatar Development Fund has signed up to back Middle East Desalination Research Center (MERDC) projects in Palestine and Jordan.