Tag: Reverse Osmosis
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Purification plant donation may slow Sri Lankan kidney disease spread
A recently commissioned reverse osmosis water purification plant donated by water treatment company Puritas will help to curb the spread of chronic kidney disease in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka according to the plant owner. Some 400,000 people in the region are understood to be currently affected with the disease.
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Comparing Desalination and Recycling for Water Supply Augmentation
The quest to secure new and durable supplies of potable water is being pursued in a growing number of regions of the world as existing supplies diminish and populations grow. The authors describe here a means to appraise options that accounts for all of the chief factors in any locality that might influence a decision…
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Spain’s Inexa to build Arab shipyard desalination plant
Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard company (Asry) has awarded a US$ 8.6 million contract to Gulf Marketing House for the completion and upgrading of a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant at Asry’s yard in the Bahrain capital, Manama. Under the build-operate-transfer deal Spanish engineering firm, Inexa, will construct the plant.
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Water leads as membrane market to hit US$ 39.2 billion by 2019
The global membrane separation market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.8% from 2013 to reach US$ 39.2 billion in 2019 with water and wastewater leading the charge according to a recent report.
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Spanish opposition calls for end to paralysis of giant desalination project
Opposition politicians in Alicante, Spain have called on the country’s central government to implement the completion of two, long-delayed reverse osmosis desalination plants to avoid urgent problems in the province amid a current drought.
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Venezuela’s largest desalination plant to start this year
Venezuela state-owned oil firm PDVSA expects by the end of the year to start operating a US$ 200 million seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant to provide water for oil refineries on the Paraguaná peninsula and drinking water for local communities.
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Torishima wins pump deal for Chilean reverse osmosis desalination
Japanese pump manufacturer Torishima Pump has received an order for high-pressure pumps and booster pumps for a new reverse osmosis desalination plant being built in Copiapo, Chile.
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Delayed Tarpon Springs reverse osmosis plant nears completion
Construction of a long-awaited US$ 45 million brackish water reverse-osmosis plant at the US city of Tarpon Springs, Florida is close to completion a few weeks behind schedule.
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Nine desalination studies bag US$ 1.4 million funding
Nine research projects and pilot studies will share US$1.4 million in funding under a desalination and water purification research programme set up by the US Bureau of Reclamation.
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LG Chem seeks global player status in reverse osmosis membranes
South Korean petrochemicals company LG Chem has unveiled plans to become a global player in the market for reverse osmosis membranes for desalination.