Tag: Singapore
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Private players are reshaping desalination says report
Private water companies are “reshaping global desalination” with nine of the top ten capacity additions in 2015 coming from private sector players according to market researcher Bluefield Research.
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Black & Veatch picks up deals in Hong Kong and Singapore
Consultant, Black & Veatch, has won contracts to provide key roles in two planned desalination projects in Hong Kong and Singapore. Both projects, according to Black & Veatch, will set new design and energy-use benchmarks for water treatment plants.
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Global green group seeks to carve carbon emissions out of desalination
The Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance - H₂0 minus CO₂ initiative, launched at the current climate talks in Paris, has called on its 17-nation membership to use clean energy to power new desalination plants. The call was part of the alliance’s aim to tackle the water-energy nexus and climate change.
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Singapore’s PUB set to adopt power saving desalination by Evoqua
Technology developed in Singapore by US firm, Evoqua, uses half the amount of electricity required by conventional seawater reverse osmosis the firm has claimed.
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LG Chem bags five orders worth US$ 8 million
LG Chem has acquired new orders for water purification filters totalling US$ 8 million under exclusive deals with five desalination projects. The projects are at sites in Israel, Spain, Malta, Egypt and Mexico, the company said.
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PUB picks HSL Constructor for Singapore’s third plant
HSL Constructor will build Singapore’s third desalination plant in Tuas, the country’s water supply agency, PUB, has announced. And PUB has awarded a consultancy services tender for a fourth desalination plant.
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Abu Dhabi rejects more desalination despite growing water stress
Environment Policy and Planning at Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has rejected upping desalination as a means to counter growing water scarcity in the emirate, opting instead for conservation and reuse.
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Singapore desalination plant upgrade will use ceramic membranes
An upgrade planned for later this year at Singapore’s Choa Chu Kang Waterworks will use ceramic membranes in a first for the country.
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Emirates Singapore venture poised for bond issue
Emirates SembCorp Water and Power – the joint venture, behind the Fujairah 1 independent water and power plant - is considering issuing a project bond to refinance its debt.
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Plastics group ponders suppliers for 100 Ml/d desalination project
Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group is considering several major international suppliers for its NT$ 5 billion (US$ 150 million) project to build Taiwan’s first large-scale desalination plant. The 100 Ml/d facility will be constructed on the site of one of Formosa’s naphtha crackers at Mailiao, Yunlin County to alleviate the impact on the naphtha plant of…