Tag: Seawater
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West Basin looks to hire out its desalination test facility
West Basin Municipal Water District in southern California, which is running towards the end of its seawater desalination testing period, is looking to rent out its Ocean Water Desalination Demonstration Facility to manufacturers and other parties interested in making use of its setup.
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Lanxess promises seawater membranes for 2014
Membrane manufacturer Lanxess is looking to unveil a low-pressure desalination membrane in July with seawater membranes to follow in 2014.
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Second Chennai SWRO plant commissioned
The Nemmeli desalination plant in Tamil Nadu, India, was commissioned on 22 February 2013 by the state’s chief minister, Selvi J Jayalalithaa. It is the second seawater reverse-osmosis (RO) plant to provide drinking water for the city of Chennai.
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SWCC’s Rabigh plant will be largest SWRO desalination
The approval of the world’s largest seawater reverse-osmosis plant in Saudi Arabia was reported by the government-controlled Saudi Press Agency on 11 February 2013.
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Napolitano seeks to reauthorize US desalination act
A bill, HR 745, to reauthorize the 1996 Water Desalination Act was introduced in the US House of Representatives by California representative Grace Napolitano on 15 February 2013.
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NanoH2O membranes chosen for Palmachim expansion
Two additional 36,000 m³/d trains are to be added to the Palmachim seawater reverse- osmosis (RO) desalination plant in Israel using QuantumFlux (Qfx) high-rejection membranes manufactured by NanoH2O Inc.
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Cadagua consortium’s Oman job worth US$ 300 million
More details were released on 13 February 2013 by Ferrovia of Spain about the contract announced in November 2012 for a consortium involving its subsidiary Cadagua for the Al Ghubrah desalination plant in Oman.
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IDA publishes Academy programme for March 2013
Full details of the courses to be presented in the next session of the International Desalination Association (IDA) Academy in March 2013 have been published on the IDA website.
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IDE to design PRO power-generation pilot in Norway
The Norwegian renewable-energy company Statkraft has made an agreement for IDE Technologies to design and later purchase and construct a 2 MW osmotic power-generation pilot plant in close cooperation with Statkraft.
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Disk-filters to protect Ashdod UF membranes
Filtration manufacturer Amiad has signed a contract, valued at US$ 1.67 million, to provide an Arkal Super Galaxy automatic disc filtration system (SpinKlin R) for the protection of ultrafiltration membranes at Israel’s 100 million m³/year Ashdod Desalination Plant.