Tag: Hybrid Plant
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Saudi plans two more giant desalination plants
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has unveiled plans to build two huge sea water desalination plants including a vast 1.5 million m³/day capacity hybrid plant with 30% of its production coming from reverse osmosis and the rest from thermal desalination.
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Largest desalination plant produces its first water
Production of water has started at what will be the largest desalination facility in the world, the 1,025 million m³/d Ras al-Khair (Ras Azzour) seawater plant northwest of Jubail in Saudi Arabia.
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Topics and presenters announced for IDA Academy course
The next International Desalination Association (IDA) Academy course, to be held at the International Water Summit in Abu Dhabi on 21‑22 January 2014 will feature Integration of Hybrid Technologies with Renewable Energy to Improve the Sustainability of Water Desalination and Sustainable Operation with Advanced Membrane Filtration.
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ERI pressure-exchangers chosen for Fujairah expansion
Acciona Agua has chosen Energy-Recovery Inc to provide its PX® Q line of energy-recovery devices (ERDs) for the Fujairah 1 Expansion desalination project in the UAE.
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Groundbreaking for Fujairah 1 IWPP in UAE
The US$ 200 million expansion project for the Furjairah 1 Independent Water & Power Plant (IWPP) in the UAE broke ground on 30 June 2013.
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Acciona to build Sembcorp’s Fujairah 1 expansion
Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries has signed a 20‑year water purchase agreement with the Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Company (ADWEC) which will enable it to expand its Fujairah 1 Independent Water & Power Plant (IWPP) by 30 MIGD (136,000 m³/d).
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Time to upgrade Carlsbad SWRO design to NF-SWRO Hybrid ?
The Carlsbad seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in California has been endeavoring to get started for more than a decade. During this wait, which now looks as if it could end this summer, has technology passed it by? Engineering proposals are now being invited for the similar plant at nearby Huntington Beach. The author puts…
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IDA announces final academy details for Singapore
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has announced details of its inaugural set of courses and faculty for the new IDA Desalination Academy, which will officially be launched in conjunction with the 2012 Singapore International Water Week.
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How Saltworks has scaled up its desalination process
Saltworks was featured in D&WR after founders Ben Sparrow and Joshua Zoshi demonstrated a working, bench-scale desalination system powered by concentration gradients at the 2009 International Desalination Association (IDA) World Congress in Dubai. Many expressed skepticism about their suitcase demonstration kit, but, two years on, they are still here and doing fine. This article first…
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Fujairah F2 desalination plant inaugurated
The Fujairah F2 Power & Seawater Desalination plant was inaugurated in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 9 May 2011.