Tag: Research
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GE and Aramco launch desalination energy challenge
GE ecomagination and Aramco Entrepreneurship launched a worldwide open technology challenge on 15 April 2014 to speed up efforts to improve the energy-efficiency of seawater desalination.
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Bureau of Reclamation seeks to fund desalination studies
Funding totalling US$ 1.5 million is being offered this year by the US Bureau of Reclamation for laboratory and pilot-scale studies of desalination and water purification systems.
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WRRF finds metrics perception divide in water-reuse studies
A difference in the way agencies carrying out water-reuse case-studies view metrics compared with a more general set of stakeholders has been identified by a study carried out by the WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF).
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Alamagordo adds projects, hosts desalination contest
Three more desalination research projects have been added to the program being undertaken at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility (BGNDRF ) in Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.
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MEDRC to run two RO courses in May 2014
The Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) in Oman is running two three-day courses on operation of reverse-osmosis (RO) plants in May 2014:
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Arkansas researchers join NSF membrane collaboration
Grants totaling US$ 900,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and industry partners has enabled University of Arkansas (UA) engineering researchers to join the Membrane, Science, Engineering & Technology Center, a multi‑campus collaboration supported by the NSF.
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WateReuse reports: minimizing concentrate and overtreating
The WateReuse Research Foundation has recently released two new reports:
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AMTA/AWWA 2015 membrane conference abstracts invited
The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) and the American Water Works Association have issued a call for papers for their fourth joint Membrane Technology Conference to be held in Florida in 2015.
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B&V’s Rimer joins board of WateReuse Research Foundation
Alan Rimer, director of water reuse for Black & Veatch, was recently elected to the WateReuse Research Foundation board of directors.
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Hyflux sells half-share of Singapore membrane R&D firm
Singapore’s Hyflux Ltd announced on 11 March 2014 that it had agreed with Marmon Water (Singapore) Pte Ltd (MWS) to sell to MWS its entire 50% equity interest in Hyflux Marmon Development Pte Ltd (HMD), a company devoted to membrane/media filtration research.