Category: Water reuse
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Hot Standby Operation – Gold Coast Desalination Plant
Much political capital has been made in Australia over its implementation of a desalination programme that has seen the country construct six major seawater reverse-osmosis plants. In still-dry Western Australia, Water Corporation s two plants are seen as a boon. With full dams elsewhere, desalination plants have had to be mothballed. This article looks at…
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Modern Water opens new office in Shanghai
UK company Modern Water announced on 26 November 2013 the formation of Modern Water Technology (Shanghai) Co Ltd and the opening of its new office in Shanghai, China.
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Dow UF/RO membranes help Hippo in Texas shale play
A water recycling project in Texas to convert produced water into freshwater, brine, and hydrocarbon streams has since June been using a Hippo® mobile water treatment plant from Omni Water Solutions equipped with Dow ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis membranes.
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Toray takeover of Korea’s Woongjin Chemical agreed
Japan’s Toray Industries Inc announced on 6 November 2013 that Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc (TAK), its Korean subsidiary, had agreed the same day with Woongjin Holdings Co Ltd and others to purchase a 56.2% stake in Woongjin Chemical Co Ltd for Won 430 billion (US$ 406 million).
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Large surface area for new ultrafiltration module
An ultrafiltration (UF) module with 91 m² of membrane surface area was launched on 11 November 2013 by Membrana GmbH, part of Polypore International Inc.
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2014 Oman conference to look at HABs and desalination
An international conference on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) & Desalination is to be held in Muscat, Oman, in April 2014.
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Chinese company displays reinforced UF fibre
An ultrafiltration (UF) module featuring a reinforced PVC fibre was displayed in early November at the Aquatech exhibition in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on the stand of the Chinese company Litree.
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Acid/alkali/solvent membranes aim at industrial use
Speciality ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membranes were shown for the first time at last week’s Aquatech exhibition in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Israeli company AMS Technologies.
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MBR technologies help expand Queensland treatment plant
A sewage treatment plant in Queensland, Australia, will double its capacity to 1,000 m³/d with the help of membrane bioreactor technologies provided by GE.
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EDS announces membrane course in Rome in 2014
The European Desalination Society has announced a three-day intensive course on Membrane Technology, Process & System Design to take place in Italy next March.