Tag: Australia
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Hurley appointed president/CEO of Parkson
Florida-based Parkson Corporation announced the appointment on 24 April 2012 of Shamus M Hurley as its new president and CEO. Hurley, who served for the last five years as CEO of Kinetico – a leading manufacturer of residential and commercial water treatment systems – replaces Zain Mahmood.
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Direct reuse could reduce flood risks says researcher
Use of direct potable reuse (DPR) of wastewater could have saved the Australian city of Brisbane from severe flooding in 2011 and mitigated recent flood risks in the state of New South Wales (NSW), according to an environmental engineer at the University of New South Wales.
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Zero purchase for Melbourne desalination water next year
The government of the Australian state of Victoria has placed its first order for water from the Melbourne desalination plant at Wonthaggi – for zero cubic metres for the next financial year.
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Support for indirect water reuse in Western Australia
Western Australia’s Water Corporation announced on 23 March 2012 that a survey it conducted had revealed that three out of four people support moving to a full recycling scheme.
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Ceramic membrane at heart of new bioreactor
An above-ground bioreactor that uses a ceramic membrane invented by scientists at the Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has been successfully commercialised and sold to the private sector.
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New licensee for membrane stormwater filter
Humes Water Solutions of Queensland, Australia, has become a licensee of the Jellyfish ® Stormwater Filter made by Imbrium™ International of the USA and Canada.
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MD desalination pilot successfully used with waste heat
Results from an Australian trial to demonstrate the potential for a membrane distillation (MD) process to use waste heat from heavy industry to desalinate saline effluent have shown the system can produce high-quality water at temperatures as low as 30°C without an increase in greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Multinational consortium works on water-splitting prototype
Scientists from Australia, Germany and the USA met in Wollongong in early March to move towards establishment of a global consortium to research effective strategies for water splitting.
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Australian researchers report portable CDI trial
A portable capacitive deionisation (CDI) desalination unit being developed and tested by the University of South Australia has demonstrated sufficient salinity and hardness removal ability.
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Furukawa notes red-tide lessons
Clear messages need to be taken from the recent workshop on red tides held in Oman, according to veteran desalter David Furukawa, chief scientific officer of the Australian National Centre for Excellence in Desalination (NCEDA).