Tag: Carbon Footprint
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Seagrass is important store of organic carbon
Designers of seawater desalination plants should take care their project does nothing to decrease the amount of seagrass in the vicinity, as the plant is an important store of carbon.
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IDA energy task force to run WWF6 session
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has organized a session titled Desalination: The Sustainable Solution And Hope For Future Generations at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France, during 12-17 March 2012.
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Two desalination/reuse research RFPs issued by WRF
The WateReuse Research Foundation announced on 23 February 2011 two requests for proposals (RFPs) for research related to desalination and water reuse under the foundation’s Solicited Research Program and Feasibility Studies Program.
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Trekkopje SWRO opened at Namibian uranium mine
The 55,000 m³/d Trekkopje seawater desalination plant in Nambia was opened opened on 16 August 2010 in the presence of Namibia’s minister of agriculture, water and forestry, John Mutorwa, and former president, Same Nujom
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Carlsbad legal challenge loses Surfrider Foundation.
One of the two groups staging a last-ditch challenge to the Carlsbad desalination plant, Surfrider Foundation, has abandoned its legal challenge to the California State Lands Commission’s approval of the project.
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Innovations in IDA Congress technical program
Round-table sessions and touch-screen availability of poster presentations will be used for the first time in the International Desalination Association’s World Congress in Dubai on 7-12 November 2009, IDA announced on 19 October 2009.
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ERI wins ninth Algerian supply contract
UTE Cap Djinet, a consortium consisting of Spanish contractors Inima and Aqualia, has selected PX Pressure Exchanger energy-recovery devices from Energy Recovery Inc for a large desalination plant to be built in Algeria.
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First Water Standard vessel will use ERI units
Water Standard plans to use the PX Pressure Exchanger energy-recovery device made by Energy Recovery Inc (ERI) in its first Seawater Desalination Vessel (SDV), the two companies announced on 19 May 2009. Florida-based Water Standard builds and operates vessels that deliver desalinated water to clients onshore and to the offshore energy industry.
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ERI wins Adelaide desalination energy-recovery contract
AdelaideAgua, the consortium which is to design, build and operate the 150,000 m³/d seawater desalination plant at Port Stanvac, near Adelaide, South Australia, has selected Energy Recovery Inc’s PX Pressure Exchanger energy-recovery devices for the plant, ERI announced on 5 May 2009.