Tag: Scaling
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Brazilian offshore SRP system awarded to VWS Westgarth
VWS Westgarth has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by SBM Atlantia for of a seawater sulphate-reduction package (SRP), using Dow FilmTec membranes, in a Brazilian offshore oil and gas field.
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Korean membranes chosen for Iranian process water
CSM fouling-resistant reverse-osmosis membranes, manufactured by Woongjin Chemical of South Korea, have been selected for the Fajr Phase II Project in Iran to help reduce biological fouling and scaling.
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Polymer brush layer is key to new fouling-resistant membrane
A new class of fouling-resistant reverse-osmosis (RO) membranes has been announced by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) which are claimed to have low mineral-scaling propensity and high permeability.
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Pretreatment course scheduled by EDS for May 2010
The European Desalination Society (EDS) on 15 January 2010 announced a four-day course on Pretreatment, membrane fouling and scaling to be held in Genoa, Italy, on 31 May – 3 June 2010.
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UCLA’s mobile desalination test successful
Field trials during April and May 2009 of a small modular membrane-based water supply system by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have proved that the plant can be used to test brackish water or seawater for use in a full-scale desalination plant.
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New deionizer reduces hardness to 2ppm
Siemens chose the Singapore Water Week to introduce its VNX-HH electrodeionization (EDI) module with higher feedwater hardness tolerance.
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Desalination course just misses quake
Earth tremors felt during the European Desalination Society’s fouling and scaling course in L’Aquila, Italy, last week, were obviously precursors of the major earthquake that struck the town at 03:30 on 6 April causing over 190 deaths.
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First MOT plant produces water in Gibraltar
The first desalination plant to employ Manipulated Osmotic Technology (MOT) has produced its first water in Gibraltar. Modern Water, the UK company that installed the plant, also announced on 15 September that it has an agreement to install another MOT plant in Oman.