Tag: Fouling
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American Water/Drexel U to research desalination fouling
The WateReuse Research Foundation has provided a grant to American Water Works Company Inc (American Water) for a joint research project with Drexel University, Philadelphia, to measure and reduce biological fouling on membrane filters in desalination applications.
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Japanese anti-fouling RO chemical gets NSF certification
Tokyo-based Kurita Water Industries Ltd has obtained certification from NSF International for an anti-fouling reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination membrane treatment chemical, which can be used while the plant remains in production.
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Jack August to give AWWA/AMTA keynote speech
Dr Jack L August Jr, historian and executive director of the Barry Goldwater Center for the Southwest and visiting scholar in legal history at Snell & Wilmer LLP will be keynote speaker at the AWWA/AMTA Membrane Technology Conference & Exposition, which opens in Pheonix, Arizona, next week.
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Pilot vapour-recompression plant tackles oil and gas water
A pilot project to treat produced water from oil and gas operations in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, has been initiated by Purestream Technology of Salt Lake City, USA, using its advanced vapour recompression (AVARA) system.
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H2O Innovation commissions pathfinding Indian membrane plant
Canada’s H2O Innovation announced on 31 January 2011 that its Indian joint venture, H2O Innovation India Ltd, had commissioned the 7,000 m³/d membrane water treatment system it had designed for Larsen & Toubro Heavy Engineering (L&T) in Gujarat state.
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Agnihotri elected to board of ThermoEnergy Corp
Dr Dileep Agnihotri, the CEO and president of Advanced Hydro Inc, a company set up to commercialise a novel antifouling membrane coating technology at the University of Texas – Austin, has joined the board of ThermoEnergy Corp, a Massachusetts-based company engaged in development and sales of municipal and industrial wastewater-recovery and clean power-generation technologies.
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WRRF releases four desalination / reuse studies
Four new research reports related to desalination and water reuse were released on 28 December 2011 by the WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF):
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EDS desalination course dates for 2012 published
The European Desalination Society (EDS) has published dates for its series of courses for 2012, which will take place in February, April and June.
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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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IDA lifetime achievement award for Toray’s Kurihara
A lifetime achievement award to Dr Masaru Kurihara of Toray Membranes was awarded by the International Desalination Association at its awards banquet which closed the IDA World Congress in Perth, Australia on 8 September 2011.