Tag: Australia
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Row erupts over payments to Sydney desal plant
A row has erupted over payments to Sydney Desalination Plant after it emerged that the facility remains out of action following storm damage in December 2015.
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Australian industry-led proposal for water research gets the green light
A proposed new industry-led water research centre in Australia has passed its first hurdle by being shortlisted for funding by the Australian government.
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China’s CCCC tables a $650 million bid for IDE Technologies
Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) has bid $650 million for IDE Technologies, reports Engineering News-Record.
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ACWA Group hires new chief to drive Middle East growth
ACWA Group has appointed Fadey Kassim as chief officer of sales and strategy to drive growth in the Middle East, particularly in the municipal and industrial water reuse segment.
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Water industry investment fund secures $300 million institutional backing
Resonance Industrial Water Infrastructure, an investment fund focusing on water projects, has raised $300 million from institutional investors in the UK, US and the Nordics.
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Australia’s Water Corporation weighs the options for climate-independent water
Australia’s Water Corporation is looking at "a range of options" for its next climate-independent source of water for western Australia, as it reaches the halfway mark of a 10-year strategy to ensure a climate-independent water supply.
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Boron nitride nanotube membranes outstrip carbon copies
One approach to improve the desalination process would be to design a more efficient membrane. Embedding nanotubes in the membrane is one area of research. Investigation of water transport through nanotubes in the past has primarily focused on carbon nanotubes, where the water has been found to flow extraordinarily fast in addition to rejecting salt…
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Gold Coast’s twin intake/outfall tunnels save space and environment
A key part of the anti-drought strategy in Queensland, Australia, has been the construction of a 125,000 m³/d seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant, located at Tugun on the Gold Coast, due to start producing water in November 2008. This plant will supply up to 20% of the average demand for the Brisbane/Gold Coast Region. The Gold…
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Sydney’s SWRO desalination project – working towards sustainability
Sydney’s desalination project will produce 250,000 m /d of drinking water, which equates to approximately 15% of Sydney’s supply. Sydney is currently solely reliant on surrounding dams for water. Seawater desalination will form a supplementary water source with water from the plant directly injected into Sydney’s drinking water network. In planning for the plant, Sydney…
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Large Diameter RO Desalination Elements
In recent years, increasing the diameter of spiral elements has been studied as a method of lowering the cost of membrane treatment. It has been shown that the installed cost of a reverse osmosis (RO) plant can be reduced by up to 27% using larger diameter elements.Large diameter elements provide savings in footprint and building…
