Category: Water reuse
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Graphene frameworks ‘can make desalination 100x faster’
New computational research on graphene sheets is showing that, when oxidized sheets are linked together as graphene oxide frameworks (GOFs), they can be used as a tunable desalination membrane.
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Doosan chooses BEL for Escondida pressure‑vessels
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has chosen BEL reverse‑osmosis (RO) membrane pressure‑vessels for its Escondida seawater RO project in Chile.
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Heat-responsive gels used to coat MF/UF membranes
Applying thermoresponsive microgels to micro- and ultrafiltration (MF and UF) membranes can allow flow to be influenced by temperature variations, according to new research from RWTH Aachen University and DWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Germany.
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Gulf red-tide early-warning system funding ‘soon’
A new early-warning system in the Gulf for harmful algal blooms (HABs), also known as red tides, using satellite imagery, remote sensing, and modeling could be one result of a conference on HABs held on 16‑17 April 2014 by the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC).
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AMTA schedules workshops up to 2016 conference
The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) has published a list of workshops and conferences up to and including its 2016 Membrane Technology Conference, which will be held with the American Water Works Association (AWWA) in San Antonio, Texas, on 1‑5 February 2016.
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NWMOA May workshop looks at wastewater MBRs
The Northwest Membrane Operator Association is to hold an operator workshop on membrane bioreactors (MBRs) in La Center, Washington, in May 2014 hosted by City of La Center.
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Next IDA Academy course set for Singapore water week
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has chosen Operational Aspects of Reverse Osmosis (RO) & Membrane Plants and Mega Projects to be the topics of the next two-day course for the IDA Desalination Academy.
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UF membrane cooperation agreed by inge and Aquasource
Germany’s inge GmbH and France’s Aquasource have agreed to enter into a strategic cooperation effective from April 2014, with each company focusing on their respective competences.
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Bureau of Reclamation seeks to fund desalination studies
Funding totalling US$ 1.5 million is being offered this year by the US Bureau of Reclamation for laboratory and pilot-scale studies of desalination and water purification systems.
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MEDRC to run two RO courses in May 2014
The Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) in Oman is running two three-day courses on operation of reverse-osmosis (RO) plants in May 2014: