Category: Water reuse
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FCC appoints new chief
FCC Group - the parent of desalination company, FCC Aqualia - has appointed Carlos M Jarque as its new chief executive officer.
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STW and Sunstone join to market zero discharge technology
Water management firm, STW Water Process and Technologies, has expanded its role in its exclusive agreement with Sunstone Water Group to commercialize Sunstone’s patented wastewater effluent treatment technology to provide direct potable reuse (DPR) in municipal markets.
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March of continuous electrodeionization in ultra pure water use
Stringent boiler feedwater quality requirements arising from the advent of supercritical, high-pressure boilers has upped demands on water purification systems for steam generation significantly. And system designers still must contend with varying raw water characteristics dependent on location. The authors describe the challenges encountered at an oil industry site and the responses to them using…
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Nine water purification projects bag US$ 1.49 million in funding
The US Bureau of Reclamation has selected nine projects to receive US$ 1.49 million under its Desalination and Water Purification Research programme.
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Partnership launches ceramic trial
Netherlands-based PWN Technologies, in partnership with Indian water treatment firm VA Tech Wabag and Japanese membrane maker, Metawater, has launched a trial to demonstrate the effectiveness of ceramic membranes as pre-treatment for seawater reverse osmosis.
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Study demonstrates good vibrations for desalination
Researchers in Israel and China have reported how computer emulation findings suggest a novel nanotechnology-based strategy to improve water filtration. The research looked at minute vibrations of water-carrying carbon nanotubes called phonons which could enhance the diffusion of water through filters.
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IDA World Congress in California
A pivotal event in the global desalination and water reuse sector will be held at the US industry’s epicentre amid an historic drought when the 2015 IDA World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse convenes in San Diego, California at the end of August 2015. The “location, theme and timing could not be more appropriate,”…
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Texas wastewater plant includes GE pre treatment
The city of Abilene, Texas has completed its installation of GE’s membrane bioreactor technology, the LEAPmbr wastewater treatment system, as part of a major upgrade to the city’s Hamby Wastewater Treatment Plant.
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Masterclass webinar to look at combining reuse and desalination using forward osmosis
Award-winning researcher, Gaetan Bandin, will present the next Desalination and Water Reuse Masterclass Webinar on 30 June looking at opportunities and challenges for forward osmosis and pressure assisted osmosis (PAO) to combine water reuse and desalination.
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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.