Tag: Concentrate Disposal
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Pacific Institute reports on intakes and brine disposal
A series of recommendations about the design of desalination intakes and outfalls has been published in a report by the Pacific Institute as part of its series on Key Issues For Seawater Desalination in California.
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WRRF seeks proposals for desalination discharge database
The WateReuse Research Foundation has issued a Request for Proposals (RfP) for collection of information on seawater desalination and establishment of a database of permitting requirements for discharges.
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Biwater lands Chino desalination concentrate reduction
A concentrate-reduction facility is to be built for the Chino Basin Desalter Authority in California by Biwater AEWT, involving installation of three new reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination units.
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Is evaporation the answer to inland concentrate disposal?
Increasing brackish water supplies and widening the reuse of wastewater by the use of membranes in the southwestern United States is running up against the limitation of concentrate disposal costs for inland sites. This article explores concentrate management and summarizes the current progress of ongoing research. This article first appeared in the May/June 2013 issue…
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What is the Alamagordo research facility for?
The Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in New Mexico, USA, has provided and continues to provide a testbed for many different varieties of desalination, which could provide future directions for the technology. The facility’s manager, Randall Shaw, outlines the purpose of the center and the research currently under way. This article first appeared in…
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Santa Cruz desalination EIR comment deadline in July
The draft environmental impact report (EIR) for the 2.5 MGD (9,500 m³/d) seawater desalination plant for the greater Santa Cruz area in California, USA, which was released on 13 May 2013, will be available for public comment until 15 July 2013.
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June start for Clearwater RO plant in Florida
Construction is due to start in June 2013 on the second reverse-osmosis water treatment plant for City of Clearwater, Florida, following a groundbreaking ceremony on 6 May 2013.
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WateReuse lists seven new research projects for 2013
Requests for proposals are to be issued in summer and fall 2013 for seven new research projects being undertaken by the WateReuse Research Foundation.
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Florida city breaks ground on brackish RO project
The Florida city of Tarpon Springs broke ground on 25 March 2013 on a 5 MGD (19,000 m³/d) reverse-osmosis Alternative Water Supply Project.
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Concentrate disposal reference report published by WRA
The WateReuse Association has published a report that it hopes will function as a knowledge base on desalination concentrate disposal for regulators, consultants and engineering companies involved in municipal desalination concentrate management.