Tag: Evaporation / Thermal
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Doosan set to build 2 MED plants in Yanbu
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction of South Korea is to receive an engineering, procurement and construction contract for two multi-effect distillation desalination (MED) units from Marafiq, the power and water utility company for Jubail and Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
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Aquatech buys majority stake in Indian chemical provider
Desalination and water-treatment specialist Aquatech International, based in Pennsylvania, has made a majority strategic investment in India’s WEX Technologies Private Ltd, a provider of performance water-treatment chemicals and services.
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Seafront lab for Indian desalination research
A desalination research laboratory is to be part of a seafront research facility to be set up in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh by India’s National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
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Aqua-Chem RO and distillers help US aid effort in Japan
A combination of mobile reverse-osmosis (RO) and ship-based RO and distillation plants all made by Aqua-Chem Inc is helping provide water for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
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High-performance SS steel challenges titanium on corrosion
Swedish stainless steel producer Outokumpu, has relaunched its high-performance stainless steel grade 654 SMO®. The grade, which offers superior corrosion resistance and mechanical properties, offers a cost-effective alternative for a host of applications where nickel alloys and titanium are presently employed.
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CDA/EDS seeking Qingdao desalination abstracts by 15 March
Abstracts for the 2011 Qingdao International Desalination Conference in China (20-23 June 2011) must received by 15 March 2011 with final papers by 10 May 2011.
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Doosan to build world’s largest MED desalination unit
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has signed an agreement with the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) in Saudi Arabia to co-build what will be the world’s largest single multi-effect distillation (MED) desalination unit.
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Industry Interview:
How IDE uses innovation to stay ahead of the fieldThe recent EuroMed conference in Tel Aviv organized by the European Desalination Society provided an ideal chance for the industry to meet the key players in the burgeoning Israeli desalination industry on their home ground. D&WR editor Robin Wiseman spoke to Avshalom Felber, CEO of IDE Technologies about technology and how his company kept at…
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Doosan to build Ras Azzour MSF units in Vietnam
Doosan Heavy Industries announced on 28 January 2011 that it would be building three of the eight desalination evaporators required for the giant Saudi Arabian Ras Azzour desalination plant at its Vietnam subsidiary, Doosan Vina.
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MIT droplet research could affect thermal desalination design
New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, on the action of droplets when hitting a surface reports a hitherto unknown mechanism for wetting transition that could have significant effects for thermal desalination.