Tag: Desalination
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Korea and Iran in desalination deal
An agreement to construct a new 60 Ml/d desalination plant in Iran is one of three deals worth some US$ 1.6 billion signed by Iran and South Korea recently.
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Desalination’s ‘hidden assets’
Renewable hydropower generated at desalination plants and other existing infrastructure could bring economic and environmental benefits to Australia’s biggest cities, according to research findings from Griffith University.
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Xylem strikes US$ 1.3 million deal in Vietnam
Water technology firm, Xylem, has won a US$ 1.3 million contract to provide its treatment technology to a Saigon Water Corporation plant in Vietnam’s capital, Ho Chi Minh City.
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IDE buys out Hadera operator partner
Desalination developer, IDE, is buying out its partner in the Hadera desalination plant operating company in a NIS 80 million (US$ 20 million) deal.
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Study shows saline groundwater beats seawater
Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have found that water from saline groundwater coastal aquifers is a better raw source than seawater for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination owing to the groundwater’s lower membrane fouling and pre- treatment costs.
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Dow Saudi factory ships first elements
Dow Water & Process Solutions’ (DW&PS) has made its first shipment of its Filmtech reverse osmosis (RO) elements from its new Jubail Operations manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia.
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Cyprus mobile desalination dismantled
A €30 million (US$ 33 million) mobile desalination unit constructed to supply the city of Paphos on Cyprus’s southwest coast is being disassembled after years of near idleness, according to local press.
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Forward osmosis: mainstream or margins?
The authors have taken a look at findings in a recent BlueTech report tracking the prospects for forward osmosis as a player in conventional desalination and water reuse applications. This article first appeared in the February 2016 issue of Desalination & Water Reuse magazine.
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Drought stricken California county looks to nuclear plant desalination plant
California’s San Luis Obispo County board of supervisors has approved a sewage reclamation project that could add treated wastewater to an aquifer and the expansion of a desalination facility at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant as emergency water supply options.
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Mississippi researchers win funding for low-temperature desalination
Mississippi State University (MSU), is to use US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding to work on a low-cost desalination process.