Tag: Maintenance
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Mechanical pipe joints perform under pressure
Since their introduction nearly 100 years ago, mechanical grooved piping systems have provided a wide range of performance benefits for system designers, installers and end users, writes Len Swantek, director, global regulatory compliance, Victualic.
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Spiral scoops innovation award for its ‘disruptive’ automatic self-cleaning filter
Spiral Water has picked up an Innovation Award from BlueTech Research for its automatic self-cleaning water filter, a "disruptive" new filter technology according to Spiral chief executive Ashwin Gulati.
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Experience of ten years running the Okinawa desalination plant
At its inception, in February 1995, the Okinawa seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in southern Japan was the most advanced of its type. In March 1997, the plant’s full capacity of 40,000 m /d was completed and began full operation. Now, the desalination plant is an essential water-supply facility for Okinawa. For this reason, looking…
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Qatar backs Palestinian water projects
The Qatar Development Fund has signed up to back Middle East Desalination Research Center (MERDC) projects in Palestine and Jordan.
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Hyflux bags Suez Canal desalination deal
Singapore’s Hyflux has secured a letter of intent for an engineering procurement and construction contract for a 150,000 m³/d desalination plant in Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone.
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Sacyr-led group wins Oman deal
A consortium led by Sacyr subsidiary Valoriza Agua has won a US$ 1.2 billion, design, construction, operation and maintenance deal for a 250,000m³/d reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant in Sohar on Oman’s Batinah coast.
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Cyprus mobile desalination dismantled
A €30 million (US$ 33 million) mobile desalination unit constructed to supply the city of Paphos on Cyprus’s southwest coast is being disassembled after years of near idleness, according to local press.
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H2O Innovation to grow in Mexico
Canada-based water treatment specialist, H2O Innovation, is expanding its business activities in Mexico.
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Veolia in mineral recovery partnership at inland desalination plant
Texas-based company, Enviro Water Minerals (EWM), is to deploy its novel mineral recovery technology in a partnership with water and waste giant, Veolia, to produce potable water from brackish water desalination effluent.
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Modern Water in tie up with Bilfinger Deutsche Babcock
Water and wastewater treatment technologies firm, Modern Water has signed an agreement with construction, operation and maintenance services company, Bilfinger Deutsche Babcock Middle East. The deal covers the joint development and commercialisation of Modern Water’s proprietary forward osmosis technology, in multi-stage flash (MSF) desalination plants across the Middle East and Northern Africa.
