Tag: Renewable Energy
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URS to assist El Paso desalination solar project
The Public Services Board in El Paso, Texas, on 10 November 2010 voted to hire URS Corporation as a consultant to assist with the choice of a solar energy system to power part of the Kay Bailey Hutchison desalination plant.
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EDS promotes learning on desalination and renewable energy
The European Desalination Society is promoting two sets of courses looking at desalination using renewable energies.
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Small Jamaican wind/solar desalination project funded
A project to use solar and wind power to run a small reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination system in Jamaica has received US$ 40,000 in funding from Global Environment Facility, with an additional US$10,000 in cofunding to come from the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica.
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Renewable-energy desalination community seeks to start association
The renewable-energy (RE) desalination community should organize itself into a body that will represent the sector and lobby for its interests, says a new report.
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MSF/FBE seawater desalination and fouling hypersaline wastewater treatment
The Multi-Stage Flash/Fluidised Bed Evaporator (MSF/FBE) is not strictly a new technology, but the applications suggested in this article are new. It is claimed to halve the costs of distillate production compared with most advanced conventional MSFs and is suggested as a way to expand existing MSF plants. Another application is the wind-powered MSF/FBE for…
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IDA publishes program for Gulf desalination and environment seminar
The International Desalination Association has published details of program sessions and topics for its seminar on Desalination and the Gulf: The Relationship between the Environment and Meeting the Region’s Water Needs, which will take place in Bahrain on 6-7 December 2010.
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Hand-operated pump can work RO treatment system
A handpump-operated reverse-osmosis water treatment system is currently being field-tested in Haiti by One Life Missions Foundation providing clean water for about 4,000 people a day in a refugee camp.
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Trailer-mounted UF/RO unit works off solar power
A trailer-mounted, solar-powered membrane-based water treatment/desalination unit, specially designed for supply after a natural disaster or for independent water supply in remote areas, is now available from the Swiss-based company Trunz Water Systems AG.
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SwissINSO moves to Lausanne science hub
SwissINSO Holding Inc, a company dealing in the application of solar-power to water purification/desalination and heating/cooling of buildings, is moving to Switzerland’s prestigious Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Science Park, the Swiss Silicon Valley.
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Twelve projects announced at Australian desalination centre opening
A project to apply wave energy to seawater desalination was one of 12 projects to receive awards from Australia’s National Centre of Excellence in Desalination (NCED) and announced at the centre’s opening on 23 July 2010.