Category: Pretreatment/cleaning
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Australian utility left seeking wastewater dump site as locals object
Australian utility, Water Corporation, remains without an alternative dumping site for wastewater from its desalination system in Denmark, Western Australia after its original choice of a temporary site was thrown out by the local community.
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Microbes could improve fracking clean-up
Research findings by the US Geological Survey (USGS) have indicated that bacteria in produced water could improve the way fluid from shale gas operations is handled and reused.
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Ras Al Khair bags best desalination plant prize
The Ras Al Khair project in Saudi Arabia has won the “Desalination Plant of the Year” award at the 2015 Global Water Awards.
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Wastewater leads membrane chemicals charge
Growth in the global membrane chemical market to 2020, will be led by the wastewater sector according to market analyst Future Market Insights (FMI). And desalination was expected to witness the highest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.4% in the global membrane chemicals market between 2014 and 2020.
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São Paulo is venue for 2017 IDA Congress
The International Desalination Association has chosen São Paulo in Brazil as the venue for the next World Congress in 2017.
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IDA picks São Paulo as 2017 World Congress venue
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has selected São Paulo, Brazil as the venue for its 2017 World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse. The event will take place in the second half of 2017. Specific dates and details about the venue are being finalized.
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Xylem wins major contract at Hong Kong’s Tai Po water treatment works
Water technology firm, Xylem has won a contact to provide clarification and filtration systems for an expansion of the Tai Po water treatment works in Hong Kong that will double its capacity to 800 Ml/d.
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One day left to register for the online masterclass – RO Membrane Fouling Control
If you have ever experienced, or if you experience in the future, a recurring, long-term, expensive, time-consuming, exasperating problem with an RO unit, it will likely be due to fouling by living and/or non-living particles. The most common fouling across all industries with RO units operating on surface water sources is biofouling/organic fouling.
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UK researchers unveils solar-powered brine treatment process
A UK academic has proposed a new solar energy-driven process to convert brine produced by desalination plants. The process also removes carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans ocean to reduce its damaging environmental impacts according to the researcher at Birmingham’s Aston University.
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Texas county backs desalination grant application
Commissioners in Hays County, Texas have backed a grant application that would fund a central Texas group’ s proposed study into the feasibility of building a desalination plant to supply water to parts of Hays and Travis counties.