Category: Pretreatment/cleaning
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Researchers unveil new, tough membrane material
An industry-academia collaboration, led by professor Toshinori Tsuru at Japan’s Hiroshima University, has developed a new desalination membrane which the researchers claimed can withstand extraordinarily high concentrations of chloride and the cleaning agent, hypochlorite.
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US water recycling research bodies to merge
US research bodies, Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) and the WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF), have unveiled plans to merge both organisations.
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Researchers publish radioactive strontium stripping method
Researchers at Japan’s Okayama University have described a system for removing radioactive strontium from aqueous solution based on its adsorption onto a naturally-occurring insoluble metamorphic mineral.
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Masdar steps up ties with China
Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is stepping up its research collaborations, knowledge exchange and industrial partnerships, with China.
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Texas loan boosts Gulf of Mexico project
Texas has agreed a US$ 2 million loan for the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) to fund a study into site and transport options for a power and water project including a seawater desalination plant on the Texas Gulf coast. The project will provide additional water supplies and add diversity to the region’s water sources.
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Arizona centre opens to address water scarcity
The University of Arizona’s Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Centre has opened with a brief to “help enable researchers, public officials, and industry leaders to work together in developing new technologies and more energy sustainable solutions to address water scarcity,” according to founding member and sponsor, Dow Water and Process Solutions.
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GE testing ice water desalination technology
Industrial conglomerate, GE, is testing a desalination system based on a salt and ice mixture that, according to the firm’s researchers, produces fresh water at 80% of the cost of conventional thermal desalination.
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IDA seeks host for 2019 World Congress
The International Desalination Association is inviting bids to host the 2019 IDA World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse.
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Plastics group ponders suppliers for 100 Ml/d desalination project
Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group is considering several major international suppliers for its NT$ 5 billion (US$ 150 million) project to build Taiwan’s first large-scale desalination plant. The 100 Ml/d facility will be constructed on the site of one of Formosa’s naphtha crackers at Mailiao, Yunlin County to alleviate the impact on the naphtha plant of…
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H₂O Innovation bags Clearlogx
Membrane filtration company, H₂O Innovation, as acquired all of the assets of control technology specialist, Clearlogx, that relate to its control technology and its specialty coagulants.