Tag: Reverse Osmosis
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US$ 400 million funding agreed for Sorek desalination
The consortium building the Sorek seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant in Israel announced on 23 May 2011 that it has entered into agreements to obtain US$ 400 million in project financing to construct and operate the plant.
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Amiad disc filters in Chennai desalination pretreatment
Arkal disc filtration technology made by Amiad Filtration Systems has been selected as part of the pretreatment system for the seawater desalination plant currently being built for the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewage Board on India’s east coast.
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Liberatore becomes GE’s main membrane man
Frederick Liberatore, who has been leading GE’s process membrane business for the past two years, has been given an expanded role as commercial domain leader for spiral-wound and flat-sheet membranes – water and process technologies.
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Consolidated bidding for Mexican SWRO desalination
Consolidated Water Co (CWCO) has declared itself to be one of the tenderers for the El Salitral desalination plant in Baja California, Mexico. Bids are due by June.
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Fossil seawater causing desalination problem
Increasing salinity in a groundwater source for desalination in North Carolina has been traced to fossil seawater, not recent seawater intrusion, as had been feared.
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Acciona to build RO plant for Chile mines
Spain’s Acciona Agua has been selected by Grupo CAP to design, build, bring into service and operate for 20 years a seawater desalination plant to service mining operations in the Copiapó Valley in Chile’s Atacama Region III.
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ERI pumps and ERDs selected for Bahamas desalination expansion
High-pressure pumps and energy-recovery technology are to be provided for the 18,500 m³/d expansion to the Blue Hills seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant in the Bahamas by Energy Recovery Inc (ERI).
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ONEIC to manufacture its own RO desalination plants
Oman National Engineering & Investment Company (ONEIC) is planning to manufacture reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination plants in Oman as the demand for water in the country is expected to grow by about 8% each year until 2017.
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Fujairah F2 desalination plant inaugurated
The Fujairah F2 Power & Seawater Desalination plant was inaugurated in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 9 May 2011.
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Adelaide first water at end of July, says minister
The intake and outfall tunnels for Adelaide’s Aus$ 1.83 billion (US$ 2 billion) seawater desalination plant in Australia have been completed and first water is expected at the end of July.