Tag: Research
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WateReuse to look at storage for direct water reuse
A request for proposals was issued on 10 October 2012 by the WateReuse Research Foundation for development of recommendations for optimising storage systems for direct potable water reuse.
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Nanomaterials for safer water reuse – Clarke Prize lecturer
Nanomaterials offer opportunities to develop next generation applications for drinking water disinfection and safer water reuse – this is the message that Dr Pedro Alvarez of Rice University will present in his 2012 Clarke Lecture in California on 2 November 2012.
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Can polymer replace titanium in thermal desalination?
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology & Advanced Materials in Bremen, Germany, have developed a heat-conducting polymer composite tube which they believe will soon be replacing titanium in thermal desalination plants.
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Veolia wastewater treatment lowers PPCPs and phosphorus
Veolia Water North America chose the Water Environment Federation’s annual WEFTEC conference in Chicago to release a study on 3 October 2012 showing successful removal of pharmaceuticals and phosphorus from wastewater using its Actiflo® Carb technology.
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Report lists important factors in indirect water reuse
Utilities considering “purple pipe” non-potable water-reuse schemes should be aware of a number of important factors which could influence their decision, an upcoming report from the WateReuse Research Foundation (WRRF) will say.
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Groundwater‑use big contributor to sea-level rise
Unsustainable groundwater use contributed 48 mm to the amount the global sea-level rose between 1951 and 2000, according to Japanese research published recently on human contributions to sea-level change.
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CH2M Hill reports to USEPA on industrial water use
Water reuse is one of a number of trends for water usage in American industry identified in a report just published by engineering company CH2M Hill for the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA).
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Almagordo operation success for solar-still technology
KII Inc and its Suns River brand announced on 21 September 2012 the successful start-up and operation of its patented solar-still technology to produce safe water for human uses.
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Testing starts on new French wastewater membrane
Testing has started on the first fibres to be developed under the French NEOPHIL project, which aims to develop a hollow-fibre membrane for urban wastewater treatment and reuse and set up a producing industry in France.
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UF/RO desalination pilot project for Dow/SWCC
The Dow Chemical Company and the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) of Saudi Arabia announced on 17 September 2012 a commercial agreement for research collaboration in desalination technologies.