Tag: Seawater
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Singapore desalination pressure-vessel contract for ROPV
Pressure-vessel producer ROPV announced on 12 September 2011 that Hyflux had awarded the company a contract to supply pressure vessels to the Tuaspring Desalination Plant, Singapore’s second and largest seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant.
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Chlorine can increase AOC in desalination – study
Addition of chlorine or antifouling chemicals in desalination pretreatment can increase levels of assimilable organic carbon (AOC) and accelerate problems, according to the results of a study presented at the 26th Annual WateReuse Symposium in Phoenix, USA, on 12 September 2011.
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Westgarth wins another offshore SWRO contract
VWS Westgarth has been awarded a contract by SBM Inc for the design, procurement and supply of equipment and provision of construction technical assistance for a single lift module seawater sulphate reduction package (SRP) system for SBM’s existing installation, FPSO (Floating Production, Storage & Offloading vessel) Xikomba off Angola.
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Prequalification invited for Ghubrah IWP in Oman
Submissions have been invited by Oman Power & Water Procurement Company by 17 November 2011 for qualification to tender for the development of an independent water project at Ghubrah (Ghubrah IWP) in Muscat governate.
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West Pilbara desalination project aborted
An Aus$ 370 million (US$ 380 million) desalination plant in West Australia’s West Pilbara region has been deferred, state water minister Bill Marmion announced on 9 September 2011.
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Boll & Kirch shows latest seawater filters
Boll & Kirch (Bollfilter) demonstrated its latest seawater filtration technology and sulphate reduction packages at Offshore Europe 2011 in early September.
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Inima wins Mexico’s El Salitral desalination plant
Spain’s OHL Medio Ambiente Inima (Inima) has been awarded a contract for the design, construction, finance and operation and maintenance of a seawater desalination plant in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
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IDE claims ‘green’ first with RO desalination system
A different pretreatment filtration technology and a new membrane cleaning system are at the heart of IDE ProGreen™, a technology claimed by IDE Technologies to be the first green reverse-osmosis (RO) system for water desalination.
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Isobarix offers retrofit ERD for PX devices
Desalination energy-recovery device (ERD) originator, Isobaric Strategies Inc (Isobarix), launched a retrofit Isobarix unit at the International Desalination Association’s World Congress in Perth in early September to be used as a substitute for the existing PX-65 series from Energy Recovery Inc (ERI).
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ERI chief calls for less plant downtime
The new CEO of Energy Recovery Inc (ERI), Tom Rooney, in an interview with Desalination & Water Reuse (D&WR) at the International Desalination Association’s World Congress in Perth, Australia, on 7 September 2011, revealed that the company was now focusing on the issue of plant utilization.