Category: Disinfection
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Oman team examines solar evaporation modulation
Aspects of desalination using concentrated solar power (CSP) are to be researched on Caledonian College of Engineering (CCE) in Oman backed by a grant of RO 146,900 (US$ 381,000) from the Research Council.
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IM&E at desalination intakes studied by WateReuse Assoc
The WateReuse Association has just published a report on The Impingement Mortality and Entrainment (IM&E) Reduction Guidance Document for Existing Seawater Intakes, for which the principal investigator was Timothy W Hogan of Alden Research Laboratory Inc.
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WateReuse foundation requests research funding bids
The WateReuse Research Foundation is seeking preproposals by 18 February 2014 for funding consideration under its 2014 Tailored Collaboration (TC) Research Program (reserved for subscribers).
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Bureau of Reclamation seeking desalination research plans
The US government’s Bureau of Reclamation is seeking new technologies to study through its Desalination & Water Purification Development Program, it announced on 3 February 2014.
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RED-powered power pilot to start trials in February
Salinity gradient power generation by reverse electrodialysis (RED) is making good progress, according to an announcement on 24 January 2014 by FujiFilm Manufacturing Europe BV and REDstack, a Dutch spinoff company from Wetsus.
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WERF to investigate One Water management concept
The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) has launched a research program to assist agencies to work towards the One Water concept – water from all sources should be managed cooperatively to meet economic, social and environmental needs.
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EDR researcher wins 2013 Channabasappa Scholarship
The International Desalination Association has awarded its 2013 Channabasappa Scholarship to Leila Karimi, a PhD candidate at the Institute for Energy & the Environment, Chemical Engineering Department, New Mexico State University (NMSU).
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IDA president calls for new thinking on sustainability
The president of the International Desalination Association (IDA), Dr Abdullah Al-Alshaikh, described the transition to sustainability as “one of the most important paradigm shifts of the modern era,” when he addressed the International Water Summit (IWS) in Abu Dhabi on 21 January 2013.
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World Bank to help energy/water development link
The World Bank is to help developing countries to better plan and scale-up their energy demand in tandem with water resource management.
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WRRF seeks proposals for DRP research projects
The WateReuse Research Foundation announced on 14 January 2014 the availability of US$ 400,000 in funding under its Solicited Research Program & Feasibility Studies Program for two direct potable reuse (DPR) research projects.