Tag: Seawater
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Indian city ponders two more new desalination plants
The water agency for the Indian city of Chennai has submitted plans for two desalination plants to the state government for approval.
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New Texas desalination plant could reuse fracking water
A new desalination test facility in Loving County, Texas could be deployed in treating water used in hydraulic fracturing – tracking- for shale gas for reuse in the oil industry.
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GE and Saudi Aramco launch $200k technology competition
General Electric and Saudi Aramco have launched a $200,000 challenge to improve the energy efficiency of seawater desalination.
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Yemen poised to build first desalination plant
Yemen is set to build its first desalination plant. The $300 million project is a response to growing water demand as the country’s natural water resources have become dangerously depleted.
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Hitachi buys Cumberland
Japanese engineering giant Hitachi Zosen has acquired Dubai-based electrochemical company Cumberland, for an undisclosed sum.
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Combined cooling and desalination “limits environment impact”
Studies by a company proposing to construct a groundbreaking combination of desalination plant and data centre have shown the facility will cause only limited negative impact to the environment according to the researchers.
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Scientists report low energy, non-membrane desalination technique
A team of American and German researchers have reported an electrochemical method for desalination of seawater that uses no membranes and which they claim consumes only a small amount of energy.
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Research gives green light to proposed desalination plant
Studies by a company proposing to construct a “unique” combination of desalination plant and data centre have shown it will cause only limited negative impact to the environment according to the researchers.
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Hitachi to partner with Veolia on overseas desalination projects
Hitachi and Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies are to cooperate on desalination projects, mainly in emerging countries.
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Toyobo desalination membrane plant opened in Rabigh
The ACWA-Toyobo joint venture in Saudi Arabia, Arabian Japanese Membrane Company LLC (AJMC), opened its reverse-osmosis membrane production facility in Rabigh on 29 May 2014.