Tag: Japan
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Singapore desalination plant upgrade will use ceramic membranes
An upgrade planned for later this year at Singapore’s Choa Chu Kang Waterworks will use ceramic membranes in a first for the country.
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Plastics group ponders suppliers for 100 Ml/d desalination project
Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group is considering several major international suppliers for its NT$ 5 billion (US$ 150 million) project to build Taiwan’s first large-scale desalination plant. The 100 Ml/d facility will be constructed on the site of one of Formosa’s naphtha crackers at Mailiao, Yunlin County to alleviate the impact on the naphtha plant of…
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PUB and Mitsubishi join to test water recycling technology
Singapore’s national water agency, PUB. has contracted Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation to build a demonstration-scale plant to test energy saving technologies that may be deployed at the proposed Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP).
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Grundfos reforms in bid to double Asia Pacific revenues
Danish pump manufacturer, Grundfos, has unveiled an organisational restructure in its Asia Pacific operations where it is looking to “double revenues over the next five years.” The reshuffle will “improve customer service, enhance organisational efficiency, and drive the next phase of growth in the Asia Pacific.”
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Qatar prepared for soaring water demand
Requirements for water and power in Qatar are expected to soar by more than 50% by 2022 according to estimates from the state owned utility the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa).
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Japanese duo bags Qatar power and water contract
Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) has selected a Japanese consortium of Mitsubishi Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), named K1 Energy, to build an electricity and water plant comprising a 590,000 m³/d desalination facility and a 2.4 GW gas-fired power station at Umm Al Houl, 20km south of the city of Doha.
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Acciona venture wins Qatar deals
Spanish desalination firm, Acciona Agua, has won two major desalination contracts in Qatar worth US$ 525 million as part of a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation and Toyo Thai Corporation.
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Qatar to set up US$ 500 million reverse osmosis desalination plant
Qatar utility, Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) is set to establish a US$ 500-million, reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant that will produce freshwater at 136 Ml/d.
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Japanese-led consortium bags US$ 120 million Saudi desalination deal
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has awarded a US$ 120 million contract for the expansion of the Shuaiba 2 seawater desalination plant to a joint venture including ACWA Holding and Japanese engineering firms Itochu Corporation and Sasakura.
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Ghana poised to start up first desalination plant
Ghana is poised to start up its first seawater desalination plant in the capital, Accra, by February, 2015.