Tag: Germany
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Energy Recovery partners with Duchting Pumpen on new energy savings agreement package
Pressure energy specialist Energy Recovery has signed a master agreement with Germany-based pumps manufacturer Duchting Pumpen to provide a new combined solution for desalination.
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Namibia plans feasibility study to underpin PPP desal project
Namibia is looking to build a new 70,000 m3/d desalination plant in Erongo Region under a public-private partnership (PPP), as the country gets close to finalising PPP legislation, reports New Era.
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Lanxess to double membrane production in 2017
Lanxess is to double the capacity of its membrane production facility in the city of Bitterfeld, Germany next year.
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EC-backed pilots to trial desalination by electrodialysis
A new European Commission-backed series of desalination pilots are about to kick off, as part of Horizon 2020, the European Union’s biggest ever research and innovation programme.
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PESU membranes in municipal water treatment applications
In his previous article (D&WR August/September 2009), Dr Maletzko dealt with the use of polyethersulfone (PESU) membranes in pretreatment systems for seawater reverse osmosis. Here he looks at applications for municipal water treatment and claims improved virus removal and twice the permeability of PVDF membranes. This article first appeared in the November/December 2009 issue of…
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Solar membrane distillation ideal for remote areas
Fraunhofer ISE develops solar thermally driven compact desalination systems based on membrane distillation for a capacity range between 100 and 500 L/d and larger system capacities up to 10 m³/d. A modular design of systems is important in order to resize them to a wide range of user profiles. Membrane distillation (MD) is a separation…
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IDA seeks nominations for new water reuse and conservation awards
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has invited nominations for three awards recognizing achievements in water reuse and conservation that will be presented at the association’s first ever conference devoted to water reuse.
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Global green group seeks to carve carbon emissions out of desalination
The Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance - H₂0 minus CO₂ initiative, launched at the current climate talks in Paris, has called on its 17-nation membership to use clean energy to power new desalination plants. The call was part of the alliance’s aim to tackle the water-energy nexus and climate change.
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Abu Dhabi rejects more desalination despite growing water stress
Environment Policy and Planning at Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has rejected upping desalination as a means to counter growing water scarcity in the emirate, opting instead for conservation and reuse.
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Microdyn-Nadir and Ovivo target US membrane bioreactor market
German filtration firm, Microdyn-Nadir, has struck a partnership with water treatment systems specialist, Ovivo USA, to service the US membrane bioreactor market with a combination of the German company’s membrane technology and Ovivo’s membrane bioreactor system (MBR) integration range.