Tag: Reverse Osmosis
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Modern Water desalination trial in Oman extended
Modern Water plc announced on 23 June 2010 that it had agreed an extension to the trial of its desalination plant with the Omani Public Authority for Electricity & Water. Modern Water has agreed a tariff to continue to provide water to the local community for a further six-month term.
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Giant solar-cell factory to have HERO water purification
The largest silicon solar manufacturing factory in the world is to use a high-efficiency reverse- osmosis (HERO) ultra-pure water treatment system supplied by GE. SunPower Corp selected GE to supply the new SunPower-AUO joint-venture solar-cell fabrication plant in Malaysia.
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Water authority seeks to buy Carlsbad desalination water
The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) in California voted on 24 June 2010 to work on a contract with Poseidon Resources to purchase water from Poseidon’s Carlsbad Desalination Project.
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Karachi cantonment plans 2 MGD desalination stopgap
Karachi’s Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) is planning to establish a 2 MGD (9,000 m³/d) reverse-osmosis desalination plant to mitigate some of the 7 MGD (32,000 m³/d) water shortage in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), CBC CEO Muhammad Hayat Mahr told a meeting in the Pakistan capital on 23 June 2010.
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Sorek desalination plant will reach 300 million m³/year
Israel’s government on 20 June 2010 approved construction of the Sorek desalination plant, which could end up as one of the largest in the world.
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Membrane antiscalant receives sodium benzoate infusion
Professional Water Technologies, the California-based business unit of H2O Innovation, has developed a new method of infusing its dendrimer antiscalant technology, developed for reverse-osmosis and membrane filtration markets, with sodium benzoate, a bacteriostatic and fungistatic preservative widely used in food and beverage applications.
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Korean membranes chosen for Iranian process water
CSM fouling-resistant reverse-osmosis membranes, manufactured by Woongjin Chemical of South Korea, have been selected for the Fajr Phase II Project in Iran to help reduce biological fouling and scaling.
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RO included in Czech powerplant water treatment upgrade
Wabag Brno has begun modernisation of the water treatment plant at the Prunéřov power station in the Czech Republic, involving clarification, filtration, reverse osmosis, softening and demineralisation.
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Olympics facilities manager appointed as Tri-Tech VP
Former Siemens engineer, Weidong Bi, who managed membrane-bioreactor and reverse-osmosis plants for the Olympic Games in China, is one of three senior executive appointments announced by Tri-Tech Holding Inc on 3 June 2010.
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Membrane market will be US$ 2.8 billion by 2020, says report
The total market for membrane-based water treatment will grow from US$ 1.5 billion in 2009 to US$ 2.8 billion in 2020, according to a new report from Lux Research.