Tag: Solar
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Bidding for largest solar desalination plant opens soon
Tenders for the world’s largest solar-powered seawater desalination plant in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, will be invited next month by utility company Utico Middle East.
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ZLD trials at Alamogordo for KII/Suns River solar still
KII/Suns River has provided D&WR with more information about its extended work at the Brackish Ground Water National Research Facility (BGNDRF) in Alamogordo, New Mexico, during the next several months.
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Commercialization moves nearer for memsys MD system
In what memsys CEO, Götz Lange, calls “a clear step towards commercialization of the company’s membrane distillation (MD) technology”, the Germany/Singapore based company has announced the formation of a Business Development Unit.
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SWCC signs renewable energy agreement with KACARE
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) signed an agreement on 3 October 2013 with the King Abdullah City for Atomic & Renewable Energy (KACARE) to study and develop uses of atomic and renewable energy (solar photovoltaic (PV), solar thermal and wind) in water desalination.
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Solar/MED design aims to desalinate CSG water
A three-way partnership in Australia has entered a solar-powered desalination system for the coal‑seam gas (CSG) industry into the Australian Innovation Challenge being run by Shell and The Australian newspaper.
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Saudi solar desalination push nears end of Phase 1
The first of three phases of the King Abdullah Initiative for Solar Water Desalination is expected to be operational by the end of this year, according to reports from Saudi Arabia.
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EDS unveils course on desalination and renewable energy
The European Desalination Society (EDA) has announced a four‑day intensive course on Wind and Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Powered Desalination Systems (Reverse Osmosis and Electrodialysis Reversal) to be held in the Canary Islands.
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MEDRC announces solar desalination course
The Middle East Desalination Research Center is to hold a course on Solar Desalination in October 2013 at its Muscat, Oman, training facility.
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Floating MD plant wins Munich desalination challenge
A floating membrane distillation design was this year’s winner of the TUM DeSal Challenge, an initiative of the department of thermodynamics at the technical university in Munich (TU München), Germany, and open to school and university students.
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International projects to feature in NCEDA workshop
Reports from major international projects will form the basis of a Desalination Workshop to be held in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2013 by the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA).