Tag: Chemicals
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MIT details process to use brine as a resource
Researchers at MIT have published details of a process to recycle brine for use in desalination plants instead of disposing of it.
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Five Minutes With: Saravanan Padmanaban, Inge sales manager for the Indian subcontinent
Better regulation would support India’s water sector, says Inge’s new sales manager for the Indian subcontinent, Saravanan Padmanaban.
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UN urges desalination industry to improve on brine
The United Nations has called on the desalination industry to clean up its act on brine as the number of desalination plants worldwide continues to climb.
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Italmatch boosts portfolio with BWA Water Additives buy
Italmatch Chemicals is to acquire BWA Water Additives, adding to its portfolio of chemicals for water treatment and industrial processes.
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Five Minutes With: John Williams, global business development, membranes, Lanxess Sybron Chemicals
Returning to the membrane industry ‘feels like a very comfortable transition’, says Lanxess new business development hire John Williams
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Five Minutes With: Joe Gifford, Nanostone vice president of research and development
Joe Gifford, who is listed as an inventor on water technology patents in the US and globally, is Nanostone’s new vice president of research and development
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WorleyParsons acquires Jacobs’ energy, chemicals, and resources division
Australia’s WorleyParsons is purchasing the energy, chemicals, and resources (ECR) division of Jacobs in the US for $3.3 billion, comprising $2.6 billion in cash and 58.2 million WorleyParsons shares.
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Keppel poised to buy chemical company Ixom
Keppel Infrastructure is closing in on a deal to acquire Ixom, the Australian chemicals company controlled by Blackstone, reports Bloomberg.
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IDE Technologies ‘breaks recovery limits’ for BWRO brine
IDE Technologies has introduced new system MAXH2O, which is designed to improve recovery rates in brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) brine.
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Proton compares closed-circuit versus conventional RO
Proton anti-scaling software from Amercian Water Chemicals was first introduced at the AMTA Conference in 2014. The platform’s innovative approach to modelling membrane treatment systems which, unlike other anti-scalant predictors, accounts for ion complexes and ion activity in water, and differentiates between nano-filtration and reverse osmosis membranes, enabled it to improve on the accuracy of…
