Tag: Saudi Arabia
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Water scarcity can make nuclear option attractive to some countries
Nuclear power and desalination have been seen as symbiotic technologies for a long time. The combination is viewed as an attractive option for countries that have nuclear capability but which also lack sufficient potable water. The author reviews recent advances in IAEA member states to improve reactors with regard to desalination. He also looks at…
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Doosan to build world’s largest MED desalination unit
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has signed an agreement with the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) in Saudi Arabia to co-build what will be the world’s largest single multi-effect distillation (MED) desalination unit.
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Fluid dynamics secret to pressure-booster record
At the EuroMed conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, in October 2010, those on the FEDCO booth at the exhibition were all wearing big smiles. The reason was the performance achieved by the company s turbocharger energy-recovery device (ERD) for the Jeddah III seawater reverse-osmosis desalination project. A condition of the contract was that the ERD…
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Doosan to build Ras Azzour MSF units in Vietnam
Doosan Heavy Industries announced on 28 January 2011 that it would be building three of the eight desalination evaporators required for the giant Saudi Arabian Ras Azzour desalination plant at its Vietnam subsidiary, Doosan Vina.
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Titanium supplier chosen for Ras Azzour desalination plant
Uniti LLC, a US-Russian industrial titanium venture jointly owned by Allegheny Technologies Inc and Verkhnaya Salda Metallurgical Production Association, announced on 16 December 2010 that it has been chosen to supply a significant portion of the commercially pure (CP) titanium to be used in the Ras Azzour desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.
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Ceramic nanofiltration company gets big investor
ItN Nanovation AG, a start-up company in Saarbrucken, Germany, making nanofiltration ceramic products for the water industry, announced on 9 December 2010 a framework investment agreement with the US investment fund YA Global Master SPV Ltd, part of the Yorkville Group.
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Parkson breaks new ground with Saudi MBR plant
A 2,000 m³/d wastewater-reuse plant based on membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology has just been commissioned in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia, by Florida-based Parkson.
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Fedco pressure-booster beats 80% efficiency
“We’re now ready to go after any project in the world,” Eli Oklejas, president of Fedco, told D&WR, after he had announced that a performance test on the company’s hydraulic pressure booster (HPB) energy-recovery device for desalination had surpassed 80% efficiency.
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GE signs Saudi Arabian wastewater-reuse MOU
GE has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on wastewater reuse with Miahona, a subsidiary of the Arabian Company for Water & Power Development Ltd.
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B&V puts forward four water-reuse recommendations
Four key recommendations have been put forward by Dan McCarthy, president and CEO of Black & Veatch’s global water business, for overcoming global barriers to reuse of water as part of an integrated water industry portfolio.