Tag: Research
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Chilean solar desalination demo precurses pilot project
A demonstration solar-powered desalination plant was installed in mid‑March 2013 in Arica, Chile, by Fundación Chile, in advance of a pilot project for irrigation purposes.
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Guadalupe-Blanco desalination feasibility award in May?
Interviews will be taking place on 1-2 May 2013 with the seven groups left in competition for the feasibility study for the Regional South Central Texas Power & Seawater Desalination Project proposed by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA).
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Berman joins D&WR/IDA online symposium team
Tom Berman, research professor emeritus of the Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel, who is a leading expert on biofouling and transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) in reverse osmosis, has been added to the speakers for the International Online Symposium on Pretreatment for Seawater Reverse-Osmosis Desalination.
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Grant support for UK graphene membrane research
Graphene researchers at the UK’s University of Manchester have been awarded a £ 3.5 million grant that could bring new desalination membranes, safer food packaging and enhanced disease detection closer to reality.
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Finnish group claims lower cost of nano membranes
A technology to manufacture nanoporous membranes at “significantly lower” production costs was announced at the end of March 2013 by the Department of Energy & Materials Science at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland.
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WateReuse lists seven new research projects for 2013
Requests for proposals are to be issued in summer and fall 2013 for seven new research projects being undertaken by the WateReuse Research Foundation.
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Alamagordo completes first stage of RO project
The City of Alamagordo in New Mexico, USA, announced on 26 March 2013 that it had completed Phase 1 of its Westside Infrastructure Improvements Project, which will eventually include a 6 MGD (22,700 m³/d) desalination plant.
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South Africans develop oil-water separation membrane
Researchers in South Africa have fabricated and tested a nanotube-infused membrane which could be used to treat polluted wastewater such as oil-containing waste from oil & gas operations.
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WateReuse Association develops ERD comparison tool
A spreadsheet tool to evaluate commercially available energy-recovery devices (ERDs) used in desalination or treatment of brackish water, seawater and wastewater effluent has been developed under a WateReuse Association (WRA) project just reported.
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MEDRC offering desalination scholarships
Graduate students from the Middle East / North Africa (MENA) region are being offered the opportunity to study at universities from around the world while participating in a Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) research project.