Tag: Membrane
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Sinochem setting up seawater desalination industrial base
Sinochem Corp held a ground-breaking ceremony for a seawater desalination industrial base in Hangzhou, China, on 22 March 2011, coinciding with World Water Day
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Pentair to buy CPT division from Norit
Pentair Inc is to acquire the Netherlands-based Clean Process Technologies (CPT) division of Norit Holding BV in the second quarter of this year for € 503 million (US$ 705 million), plus net debt at closing.
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Jakarta water company to tender three UF plants
The Jakarta regional water supply company PAM Jaya is to tender three ultrafiltration (UF) water treatment plants in July/August 2011.
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Go-ahead for 113,500 m³/d Orange County GWRS expansion
Orange County’s world-renowned membrane-based Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) in California is to be expanded by another 30 MGD (113,500 m³/d) following approval by the board of the Orange County Water District (OCWD) on 30 March 2011.
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Vacuum-driven MD breakthrough promised by memsys
Vacuum-driven membrane distillation (MD) delivers high flux and true multi-effect distillation with very good energy recovery. The process runs at low temperature levels and is fully modular. This article describes the background of the development of the memsys company, membrane distillation, its specific advantages and potential applications, current and planned demonstration plants, and MD s…
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Orange County loses widely respected lab director
Orange County Water District (OCWD) in California announced on 21 March 2011 that Steve Fitzsimmons, director of its Advance Water Quality Assurance Laboratory, who had been a key figure in water quality testing for Water Factory 21 and gaining credibility for the Groundwater Replenishment System, died on 3 March 2011.
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Experienced SWRO desalination engineer joins GHD
Australian consultant GHD has recently appointed professional engineer and marine biologist Erik Tynes, as a senior process engineer in the company’s Perth office.
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Santa Paula: A case study in energy efficiency
Sometimes when a wastewater treatment works is found to be in non-compliance with regulations this can be the spur to producing a revamp which suddenly becomes a model for others to follow. Such is the case with the City of Santa Paula in California. As a result of the revised wastewater plant’s equipment selection and…
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RO-based advanced treatment plant for West Virginia mines
A 5 MGD (19,000 m³/d) membrane-based wastewater treatment plant is to be built to serve a number of coal mines in West Virginia, USA, as a result of government action following pollution violations.
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Carbon-nanotube process evolved for membrane distillation desalination
A new architecture for the membrane distillation process which immobilizes carbon nanotubes in the membrane pores has been developed by Professor Somenath Mitra of chairman of the department of chemistry and environmental science of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.