Tag: Research
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Aquaporin begins forward osmosis pilot project in Singapore
Aquaporin of Denmark and Darco Water Technologies of Singapore are to begin a joint pilot project on industrial wastewater treatment using forward osmosis (FO) technology.
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Desal at the centre of India-Israel state visit
Desalination and water policy was at the centre of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel last week (4 to 6 July, 2017).
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Cosin calls for better water education, warns of project delays
CEO of Almar Water Solutions Carlos Cosin has warned of potential delays to projects owing to a skills shortage in the water industry, and has proposed creating a new Masters in Water degree to plug the skills gap.
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Is water in the grip of a skills crisis?
In an engineering-heavy sector such as water, it’s a truism that well qualified people are thin on the ground. But is it more accurate to say that the global water industry in the grip of a skills crisis?
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California water board to fund $4.5 million of reuse research
Water Environment & Reuse Foundation (WE&RF) is to receive $4.5 million from California State Water Resources Control Board to research potable and non-potable water reuse.
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Water. desal + reuse introduces industry research project
Water reuse is growing rapidly as part of the water management mix, and now we want your views of this fast-growing sector.
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US nanoparticle researchers explore new ways to clean oily water
Researchers at the Cockerel School of Engineering at the University of Texas have published a new study on the use of nanoparticles to separate oil from water using electrostatic force and a magnet.
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The Long Read: The changing EPC landscape
There is a big shift going on in the water sector, and it’s exemplified by the Suez-GE deal. While the focus of services offered by engineers has always ebbed and flowed along a spectrum of consultancy, design work, systems integration, and delivery, nowadays customers’ decision-making processes are pushing at the boundaries of these traditional project…
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Graphene oxide membranes: ‘In an ideal world we will take five years to scale up’
"If everything goes to plan, my expectation is that we will have graphene oxide membranes in large scale production within the next five years," says Rahul Nair, professor of materials physics and Royal Society university research fellow at the National Graphene Institute and School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, at University of Manchester, UK.
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Adsorption pilot phase two will focus on ZLD
MEDAD Technologies, a specialist in adsorption, has worked to commercialise a multi-effect distillation adsorption desalination (MED-AD) system since spinning off from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2012.