Tag: Forward Osmosis
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Combining Forward Osmosis with Reverse Osmosis
A combination of forward osmosis with reverse osmosis could facilitate the treatment of some high fouling wastewaters. The system uses brine to draw water from the wastewater without high pressure or turbulence. Key element is the membrane’s ability to allow rapid passage of water without much internal concentration polarization. The diluted draw solution can then…
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Oasys opens new office in Dubai
Forward osmosis specialist, Oasys Water, recently opened a new office in Dubai to bring on “industrial water treatment innovations in the Middle East.”
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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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Modern Water in tie up with Bilfinger Deutsche Babcock
Water and wastewater treatment technologies firm, Modern Water has signed an agreement with construction, operation and maintenance services company, Bilfinger Deutsche Babcock Middle East. The deal covers the joint development and commercialisation of Modern Water’s proprietary forward osmosis technology, in multi-stage flash (MSF) desalination plants across the Middle East and Northern Africa.
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Scientists say pressure retarded osmosis is commercially unviable
Researchers have concluded that pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) was commercially “dead” primarily due to biofouling.
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Researchers reconsider osmotic power prospects
Researchers at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia claim to have demonstrated sound prospects for harnessing the energy created in salinity gradients – where, for example, freshwater meets the sea. Earlier studies failed to provide convincing indications that the vast theoretical potential of this renewable source of power could realise an economical return.
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Mining firm strikes funding deal for desalination plant at planned mine
Mining firm, White Mountain Titanium, has agreed a deal with US private equity company, Nexo Capital Partners, to fund, construct and manage a desalination plant to form part of White Mountain’s planned Cerro Blanco mining project in Chile.
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Low-energy desalination trials delayed
Trials of four new energy efficient desalination systems from leading water technology players that could “revolutionise the industry” have been delayed from their summer 2015 start with October forecast as the date when all will be in pilot operation.
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Oasys furthers advance in China
US-based forward osmosis specialist, Oasys Water, has unveiled its latest advance in its bid to expand in China with its partner in the region, Beijing Woteer.
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Masterclass webinar to look at combining reuse and desalination using forward osmosis
Award-winning researcher, Gaetan Bandin, will present the next Desalination and Water Reuse Masterclass Webinar on 30 June looking at opportunities and challenges for forward osmosis and pressure assisted osmosis (PAO) to combine water reuse and desalination.