Tag: Reverse Osmosis
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Middle East pump sales to top US$2 billion next year
The Middle East will spend nearly $2.2 billion for pumps next year according to market researcher the McIlvaine Company.
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Joint venture wins Perth groundwater replenishment contract
Western Australia’s Water Corporation has awarded a contract to design, construct, and commission a full-scale advanced water replenishment plant (AWRP) to a joint venture between CH2M Hill,and engineering company Thiess. The project will help secure Perth’s drinking water supplies through 2060
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Desalination drives nanofiltration market growth
Desalination is one of the primary forces behind nearly three quarters of a 15% growth forecast in the nanofiltration (NF) market worldwide that will take it above US$ 445 million by 2019 according to market researcher BCC Research.
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Chinese firms form desalination plant joint venture
Water technology firm Beijing Origin Water and Chinese state-owned a water supplier Qingdao Water Group have established the Qingdao Water Origin Science Development joint venture (JV) to build a 100,000 m³/d seawater reverse osmosis plant in the northeastern Chinese province of Qingdao.
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Acciona wins Italian jobs
Spanish infrastructure company Acciona has won a contract to supply potable water through seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination on the Italian islands of Pantelleria, Linosa and Lampedusa.
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Tunisia desalination project completes feasibility check
Tunisia’s National Water Company has completed a feasibility study for a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant to be located at Zaarat, in the south east of the country. The plant will be constructed in two 50,000 m³/d phases.
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Santa Barbara OKs US$644k desalination study funding
US city, Santa Barbara, has approved US$ 644,000 to fund studies needed before its dormant desalination plant can reopen. Without the plant the city faces a potential water supply crisis.
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Dow signs Fluor to build new Saudi desalination component factory
The Dow Chemical Company has appointed Fluor Corporation to build a new factory to manufacture reverse osmosis components for desalination plants in Saudi Arabia.
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Tata power plant installs cooling water reuse
India’s largest power company, Tata Power, has installed a reverse osmosis plant at its Power House #6 power station in Jamshedpur to recover and reuse blow-down water from cooling towers.
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US research challenges value of forward osmosis in seawater desalination
Researchers in the US have claimed that forward osmosis desalination of seawater is significantly less energy efficient than reverse osmosis