Tag: Algae
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Abunayyan resigns as chair of ACWA Power Barka
Mohammad Abdullah Abunayyan has resigned as chairman and board director of ACWA Power Barka in Oman, citing personal reasons.
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Nanobubble specialist Moleaer raises capital, seeks people
Moleaer, the California, US-based water technology firm that developed the XTB Nanobubble Generator has raised $6 million to support overseas expansion.
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BASF’s new Bascal HP 100 wetting agent on show at IDA World Congress 2017
BASF has introduced a new wetting agent to help overcome dry patches that can occur in multi-effect distillation (MED) desalination plants.
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How we delivered Az Zour North phase one
"With hindsight we were very lucky to get everything through on time and that our construction partner Hyundai Heavy Industries was on time. Fortunately we escaped a lot of those little wrinkles that need sorting out during construction, and can drag on and on, and so we kept to time," says Andy Biffen, chief executive…
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Spiral scoops innovation award for its ‘disruptive’ automatic self-cleaning filter
Spiral Water has picked up an Innovation Award from BlueTech Research for its automatic self-cleaning water filter, a "disruptive" new filter technology according to Spiral chief executive Ashwin Gulati.
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Blue-green algae is a growing threat to US water supplies say scientists
Blooms of blue-green algae on lakes and other bodies of water are poorly monitored and underestimated as a risk to recreational and drinking water quality in the US and may be a threat to health globally according to recent research.
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Researchers seek algal bloom case studies
The Middle East Desalination Research Centre (MEDRC) is calling on the desalination industry to submit case studies that might be included in a guidance manual on marine algal blooms.
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Singapore’s PUB draws curtain on algae
Singapore’s national water agency PUB has for the first time installed silt curtains at the waters off Tuaspring and Singspring desalination plants, to protect them from damaging fouling of their reverse osmosis membranes by mounting levels of algae in the water.
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Ras Al Khaimah seawater desalination has algae shield
Northernmost of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ras Al Khaimah, has opened a 68 Ml/d seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) project in Ghallilah on the emirate’s west coast that is equipped to “overcome the red tide phenomena” – the seasonal proliferation of algae that blights the emirates’ coastline.
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Suez Environnement lands US$ 200 million Middle Eastern deals duo
Suez Environnement has won a desalination contract in Abu Dhabi worth more than US$ 180 million and a separate water reuse deal in Oman taking the total value of the Middle East wins to more than US$ 200 million.
