Tag: Research
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Foundation seeking desalination PR toolkit
The WateReuse Research Foundation wants to develop a public communication toolkit to assist project sponsors in the preparation of an education and outreach plan associated with the implementation of desalination projects.
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Pall to design navy inshore desalination system
The US Navy’s Office of Naval Research has contracted Pall Corporation for a multi-phase project to develop an advanced shipboard desalination system specifically for operations in coastal waters.
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MIT’s McGovern wins IDA 2012 scholarship award
The International Desalination Association has awarded its 2012 Channabasappa Memorial Scholarship to Ronan McGovern, a PhD candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
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Pacific Institute report lists California desalination plans
The Pacific Institute (PI) has published a list of all the currently proposed seawater desalination plants in California, USA, as a precursor to a new desalination report in 2013.
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New Produced Water Research Centre holds first event
Australia’s new Produced Water Research Centre (PWRC) is to hold a workshop on Saline Effluents at the centre at Sydney’s Macquarie University in early October 2012.
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RFP issued for industrial water-reuse research
The WateReuse Research Foundation has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a research project to promote water reuse in industry by using experience from existing projects.
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Tool evaluates energy-usage for desalination and reuse
The WateReuse Association has just published a report on the Water-Energy Simulator (WESim), an easy-to-use analytical tool that allows users to evaluate the energy and greenhouse-gas (GHG) implications of water management decisions.
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IDA opens online 2013 Congress paper submission
The International Desalination Association (IDA) is now accepting papers for its World Congress in Tianjin, China, in October 2013.
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Electrode desalination without an applied current
A group of European researchers have evolved a desalination technology by creating an ion adsorption/desorption cycle without using an applied cell voltage.
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Foundation identifies future imperatives for water utilities
Seven key imperatives have been identified by the Water Research Foundation (WRF) in the USA in a report published on 11 July 2012 to help water utilities understand better what the future may hold.