Tag: Reverse Osmosis
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Santa Barabara votes to reopen desalination plant
Santa Barbara city council has approved a loan to reopen its mothballed desalination plant.
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MIT spinout cracks fracking water waste
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spinout, Gradiant Corporation, is working toward making hydraulic fracturing (fracking) a water-neutral process, by making water reuse more economical. Fracking produces millions of litres of wastewater and much of it is discarded into deep injection wells, and clean water has to be purchased.
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California city ponders desalination revival
California’s city of Morro Bay is poised to apply to the state Coastal Commission to operate continually its currently idle reverse osmosis desalination plant. The city let its operating permit expire in 2000, and the plant – built in 1992 – has not operated since then except for occasional emergency use.
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Dubai utility accepts bids for solar desalination project
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has accepted seven bids to develop a pilot solar-powered reverse osmosis desalination project.
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Study demonstrates good vibrations for desalination
Researchers in Israel and China have reported how computer emulation findings suggest a novel nanotechnology-based strategy to improve water filtration. The research looked at minute vibrations of water-carrying carbon nanotubes called phonons which could enhance the diffusion of water through filters.
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GE wins desalination plant deal for Caribbean island
GE is to supply its Procera water filtration equipment package for a seawater desalination plant expansion project in Hato on the Caribbean island of Bonaire, a Netherlands- governed municipality, 80 km north of Venezuela.
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Low-energy desalination trials delayed
Trials of four new energy efficient desalination systems from leading water technology players that could “revolutionise the industry” have been delayed from their summer 2015 start with October forecast as the date when all will be in pilot operation.
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Xylem bags Singapore UV deal
Water technology specialist, Xylem, has won a US$ 500,000 contract to supply a major municipal water reclamation facility with ultraviolet (UV) disinfection solutions.
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IDE among top twenty smartest companies
In its 50th year in business Israel-based desalination company, IDE Technologies, has been ranked by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) Technology Review as among the top 20 smartest companies.
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Gold miner opts for desalination to supply planned Mexican mine
The gold mining arm of energy firm, Chesapeake, has opted to use desalinated seawater to supply water for its proposed Metates gold and silver mining project in Durango state, Mexico. It has tendered for proposals to build and operate a 55Ml/d desalination facility to supply the mine with fresh water.