Tag: Singapore
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Singapore’s Hyflux to sign desalination deal with Saudi’s SWCC
Hyflux is to deliver three seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants to Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) in a deal worth SAR 687 million ($183 million).
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The Long Read: Do we have the technology for potable water reuse?
Water reuse for drinking purposes is racing up the agenda in the US and elsewhere. Work to draw up new rules for potable reuse is advancing in states including California and Arizona, as well as in Canada and the European Union. Technologies are being piloted, and plants permitted.
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Hyflux and NEWRI to collaborate on biomimetric membranes
Water treatment specialist Hyflux has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI) to collaborate on commercialising advanced membrane technologies, particularly aquaporin-based biomimetic membranes, and nanofiltration applications.
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PUB shortlists four companies for Jurong Island desalination project
Singapore’s water agency PUB has shortlisted four companies to submit proposals for a desalination plant on Jurong Island, following a pre-qualification round.
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Singapore cuts the ribbon on new water reuse facility
Singapore’s water agency PUB officially opened the country’s fifth water reuse plant, BEWG-UESH, the second in the planning zone of Changi, on Tuesday 17 January 2017.
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IDA Fellowship Award goes to Holly Johnson Churman
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has awarded its Fellowship Award 2016-17 to Holly Johnson Churman, technology manager at Water Standard.
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Keppel to build and operate Singapore’s fourth desal plant
Keppel has beaten 15 local and international bidders for a contract to build Singapore’s fourth desalination plant at Marina East.
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IDA celebrates leaders in global water reuse with new awards scheme
The IDA has unveiled the winners of its inaugural Water Reuse and Conservation Awards, with recipients drawn from across Asia, Europe and the US.
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Adsorption desalination plant opens in Saudi Arabia
A new adsorption water desalination and cooling plant has opened in Solar Village near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Singapore University shares its work at the forefront of plasmonic photothermic technology
A conjoined approach to solving the problems of growing demand for energy and water would definitely be attractive. At the National University of Singapore, we have integrated the solutions to these two problems by designing a plasmonic solar thermal collector nanocomposite, comprising a Ag/SiO2 core, with a TiO2 outer shell as a photocatalyst.