Category: Water reuse
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Chinese licensee joins Dow residential Filmtec program
Haier Group of China, a leading multinational home appliances and consumer electronics company, has become the latest official licensee to partner with Dow Water & Process Solutions in its newly launched Filmtec™ reverse osmosis (RO) ingredient branding program.
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Berman joins D&WR/IDA online symposium team
Tom Berman, research professor emeritus of the Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel, who is a leading expert on biofouling and transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) in reverse osmosis, has been added to the speakers for the International Online Symposium on Pretreatment for Seawater Reverse-Osmosis Desalination.
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Grant support for UK graphene membrane research
Graphene researchers at the UK’s University of Manchester have been awarded a £ 3.5 million grant that could bring new desalination membranes, safer food packaging and enhanced disease detection closer to reality.
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Finnish group claims lower cost of nano membranes
A technology to manufacture nanoporous membranes at “significantly lower” production costs was announced at the end of March 2013 by the Department of Energy & Materials Science at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland.
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Ahmad takes charge of inge sales for Asia/Pacific
Ultrafiltration (UF) membrane specialist inge GmbH has taken the decision to appoint a dedicated representative to reinforce its local presence in the Asia-Pacific region and boost its regional activities.
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Dow introduces home RO membranes in two sizes
Filmtec™ home drinking-water reverse-osmosis (RO) membranes were launched on 2 April 2013 by Dow Water & Process Solutions in 75 and 100 GPD (284 and 388 L/d) sizes.
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Finn Helmer appointed CEO of LiqTech International
Denmark’s LiqTech International Inc, manufacturer of silicon carbide membrane filtration technologies, announced the appointment of Finn Helmer as its new CEO on 27 March 2013.
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South Africans develop oil-water separation membrane
Researchers in South Africa have fabricated and tested a nanotube-infused membrane which could be used to treat polluted wastewater such as oil-containing waste from oil & gas operations.
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LiqTech ties up oil & gas agreement with FMC
Denmark’s LiqTech International Inc announced on 25 March 2013 that it had entered into an agreement with US oilfield equipment and services company FMC Technologies Inc for the use of LiqTech’s silicon-carbide membrane technology for oil & gas applications.
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IDA seeking Journal editor or co-editors
A search is under way by the International Desalination Association (IDA) for a new editor-in-chief or co-editors of the IDA Journal of Desalination and Water Reuse, the association’s respected scholarly publication.