Tag: Multiple Effect Distillation
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Global desalination market to grow 9% a year
The global water desalination market is set to grow at nearly 9% a year to 2018 according a report by market researcher, TechNavio.
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Russian nuclear giant musters experts to lead desalination drive
Russia’s nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, has formed a group of expert desalination advisors as part of its push to win customers for its thermal desalination technologies. The company is targeting world regions where clean water is scarce as a path to becoming “leaders in the global nuclear market,” according to Rosatom.
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New technology and long-term reliability in process and potable water production
The Rabigh desalination plant in Saudi Arabia has outstripped its design output and water quality for nearly ten years. Designer of the plant s multiple effect distillation heart, Aquatech, sought at the outset to rein in operating costs while maintaining the plant s reliability and resilience. This article first appeared in the August 2014 issue…
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Seawater desalination in China – Where is it now and where is it going?
The Chinese government chose the week of the International Desalination Association’s World Congress in Tianjin to publish the latest of a new series of desalination yearbooks, the China Yearbook Of Seawater Desalination 2012. It reveals how the government is aiming to have its own self-sustaining desalination industry within a fairly short time. D&WR s editor,…
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Veolia wins Az Zour MED desalination plant in Kuwait
Veolia Environnement announced on 13 January 2014 that its Sidem subsidiary had won the contract to build the seawater desalination plant at the Az Zour North complex in Kuwait for € 320 million.
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Sidem to build Kuwait’s Az-Zour MED desalination plant
A consortium of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) of South Korea and Sidem, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, has announced the signing on 12 December 2013 of a US$ 1.4 billion engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Shamal Az-Zour Al-Oula to build the first phase of the Az-Zour North Independent Water &…
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Solar/MED design aims to desalinate CSG water
A three-way partnership in Australia has entered a solar-powered desalination system for the coal‑seam gas (CSG) industry into the Australian Innovation Challenge being run by Shell and The Australian newspaper.
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Ceremony marks Yanbu 2 MED desalination completion
The completion ceremony for the Yanbu Phase 2 Expansion seawater desalination plant was held on 19 December 2012 by Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Doosan takes Yanbu 3 MSF plant in Saudi
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is to build the Yanbu Phase 3 Seawater Desalination Plant under a contract worth US$ 1 billion from the Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia.
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IDA backs Abu Dhabi water summit
The International Desalination Association (IDA) announced on 12 November 2012 that it would be supporting the 2013 International Water Summit in Abu Dhabi as a Knowledge Partner and would lead sessions on water and energy.