Category: Disinfection
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A small world
In the time it takes to get a couple of projects underway RWL Water has emerged as a global player in water treatment. The company s energetic chief, Henry Charrab , talks about the attractions of the small as well as agility and foresight in the face of risk and how he still hasn t…
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A course for the future
The newly elected president of the International Desalination Association lays out his ambitions for the organization during his tenure including new territories and a stronger identity. This article first appeared in the November 2015 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.
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Indonesia moves to avoid water crisis
Indonesia is to develop seawater desalination projects in five islands of its Thousand Islands regency in a bid to head off a drought.
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IDE Americas wins Santa Barbara desalination deal
Water treatment firm, IDE Americas, has been awarded a design, build operate (DBO) deal to refurbish, operate and maintain the recommissioned Charles E Meyer reverse osmosis desalination plant in Santa Barbara, California.
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Algae: a tide of trouble
The water services provider at the industrial port at Sohar in the Oman has learned the hard way, how to combat the seasonal algal wave that can grind vital reverse osmosis desalination and other water treatment to a halt. Despite unprecedented assaults the notorious Red Tide has been tamed. This article first appeared in the…
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Larger flowmeters speak volumes
The bigger the water distribution network the more costly any metering inaccuracy. But the bigger the meter, the greater the difficulty in ensuring its accuracy. The author explores the surety offered by various measures taken to calibrate large flow meters. This article first appeared in the issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.
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The word on the sheet: biofilm has a script
How could an understanding of the chemical language of microbes unlock the enigma of biofouling? Studies looking at the communications between bacteria that lead to the build up of biofoulant reveal opportunities to scramble the messages and possibly remove this thorn in the side of membrane desalination. This article first appeared in the May 2015…
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Less is more
Since developing an energy-saving reverse osmosis membrane to address the once inherent quality compromise, Dow Water & Process Solutions has used it to spearhead its foray into the burgeoning global brackish reuse market. D&WR spoke to Dow s Americas market lead, Felipe Pinto, to find where the business is coming from and going to. This…
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Containerized plant resolves district’s drought difficulties
Membrane filtration company, H2O Innovation, has delivered a 3,200 m³/d containerized water treatment system to the Cambria Community Service District, California to “resolve promptly” the community’s difficulties amid its tenth year of drought. The system treats a mix of brackish water, freshwater and secondary effluent to be injected into a groundwater basin.
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Microbubble membrane cleaning stems fouling
In spring 2014 we published an article on how Genesys developed its microbubble-based membrane cleaning system. In this follow up Genesys presents results from a case study of the technology in a wastewater reverse osmosis plant. This article first appeared in the February 2015 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.