Tag: Industrial
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Aqualogy starts up copper mine desalination plant in Chile
Aqualogy has inaugurated the operation and maintenance of a US$ 100 million reverse osmosis desalination plant built for the Mantoverde copper mine.
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Metito backs low-temperature distillation to challenge lead desalination technologies
Dubai-based water technology firm, Metito, is set to make a “significant investment” in clean-tech company Thermal Purification Technologies (TPTec), to develop TPTec’s patented low-temperature distillation (LTD) technology. Metito claims LTD could displace existing membrane and thermal desalination technologies.
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China opens laboratory to drive forward osmosis development
A pairing of leading players in China’s water and petrochemicals industries have launched a venture to develop forward osmosis in seawater desalination that they claim will: “open up a new way for zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in seawater desalination of seawater resources with low energy consumption.”
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Oman calls for tenders on desalination plant pair
Oman’s Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) has unveiled plans to open the construction of two water desalination plants to tender.
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Hitachi and Veolia duo wins US$ 240 million Iraq pretreatment contract
A consortium of Japanese and French industrial giants, Hitachi and Veolia Environnement, alongside Egyptian engineering firm, ArabCo, have won a ¥ 24 billion (US$ 240 million) order from the Iraqi government to build pretreatment facilities at a desalination plant in Basrah, Iraq.
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WABAG completes Namibia reclamation plant
Austria-based water engineering group, WABAG, has completed a water reclamation plant in Namibia’s capital Windhoek.
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Sonitec-Vortisand appoints MENA manager
Canada-based Sonitec-Vortisand has appointed Nikhil Bhatia, as regional manager for its newly formed subsidiary, Sonitec-Vortisand Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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Pall appoints industrial systems sale manager
Filtration company Pall Corporation has appointed Michael Moll as its manager of industrial systems sales for the western hemisphere.
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Brussels seeks options on how to up water reuse
A European Union (EU) public consultation on “policy options to optimise water reuse in the EU” is approaching its close as the bloc seeks to exploit a “significant potential for further development of water reuse” among member states.
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Scientists to probe outlet brine risks to sealife
Scientists have been commissioned to investigate whether brine waste from two proposed 150 Ml/d seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants could damage or alter the marine environment along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline in South Africa.