Tag: Desalination
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Israel aids Pacific island with mobile desalinator
Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs is supplying a truck-mounted desalination facility to the Marshall islands in the Pacific ocean to help tackle the islands’ severe water shortage.
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Launch of Teshie-Nungua desalination project postponed
Ghana’s government has postponed the commissioning of the Teshie-Nungua desalination water project.
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Oman calls for tenders to build its largest desalination plant
Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has opened pre-qualification for the selection of a private developer to build Oman’s biggest independent water desalination project with a capacity of 531,000 m³/d.
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IDE claims production record at Ashkelon
Water treatment firm, IDE Technologies, has claimed that its seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant at Ashkelon, Israel, has reached a world record with 1 billion m³ of potable water produced since the start of its operation in 2005.
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Wastewater drive to boost membrane use in GCC region says analyst
Government identification of wastewater treatment in the municipal sector as a priority area in water production will be a key revenue generation source for membrane elements in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries according to market analyst Frost & Sullivan. And the demand for water in the region was set to double within twenty years…
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US researchers develop lean energy membrane-based system
Researchers at Humboldt State University, USA are developing a portable prototype pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) seawater desalination (SWRO) system that exploits the osmotic pressure differential between brine waste from SWRO and wastewater. In turn the system deploys the PRO energy in the SWRO.
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Delayed Torrevieja plant pays penalty
The close-to-complete largest desalination plant in Europe at Torrevieja, Spain has lost € 55 million (US$ 63 million) in funding because it has failed to meet operational deadlines according to recent reports.
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Santa Barbara gets OK for desalination restart
A California state board has approved a permit to allow the city of Santa Barbara to restart its seawater desalination plant.
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UK researchers unveils solar-powered brine treatment process
A UK academic has proposed a new solar energy-driven process to convert brine produced by desalination plants. The process also removes carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans ocean to reduce its damaging environmental impacts according to the researcher at Birmingham’s Aston University.
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Texas county backs desalination grant application
Commissioners in Hays County, Texas have backed a grant application that would fund a central Texas group’ s proposed study into the feasibility of building a desalination plant to supply water to parts of Hays and Travis counties.