Tag: Energy
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Energy study results set for WRRF webcast
Energy-minimization strategies and renewable-energy utilization guidelines for desalination and advanced water treatment technologies are to be the subject of the webcast by the WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF) on 25 October 2011.
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USBF/MBR system allows Canadian wastewater reuse
A wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) expansion featuring an upward sludge blanket filter (USBF) combined with a membrane bioreactor (MBR) has been completed at Snug Cove on Bowen Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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Big energy-savings as giant MBR opens near Seattle
What is claimed to be the world’s largest membrane bioreactor (MBR) installation was opened on 24 September 2011 at the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant near Seattle in the US Pacific Northwest.
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Bitumen producer using GE evaporation technology
GE’s produced-water evaporation technology has been chosen for Phase 1 of the Algar Lake Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) project near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, which will produce 5,000-6,000 barrels/d of bitumen.
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NASA, space flight, water recycling and forward osmosis
For manned space vehicles and especially for the International Space Station, America’s National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has had to invent and adapt many technologies. Not least among these are those aimed at life support and water supply in particular. In developing these, forward osmosis (FO) is playing a prominent part. NASA Research in…
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ERI chief calls for less plant downtime
The new CEO of Energy Recovery Inc (ERI), Tom Rooney, in an interview with Desalination & Water Reuse (D&WR) at the International Desalination Association’s World Congress in Perth, Australia, on 7 September 2011, revealed that the company was now focusing on the issue of plant utilization.
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Desalination and reuse in Water Leaders’ Blue Paper
Key ideas from the Water Leaders Summit at this year’s Singapore International Water Week have been captured in the latest Water Week 2011 publications, Blue Paper and Solutions.
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DWEER ERDs chosen for Singapore desalination plant
Singapore’s new 318,200 m³/d Tuaspring seawater desalination plant will use DWEER™ devices to recover energy from the high-pressure brine stream of the reverse-osmosis process.
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Osmoflo wins industrial water-reuse project
Australia’s Osmoflo has won a tender to design, build, operate and maintain a Aus$ 5 million (US$ 5.3 million) water-recycling plant and reticulation system at the Nyrstar Port Pirie smelter north of Adelaide in South Australia.
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Acciona Agua commissions Fouka desalination in Algeria
The commissioning of the Fouka seawater desalination plant in Algeria, which reached full operational capacity in July, was announced by Acciona Agua on 8 August 2011.