Tag: Solar
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URS to assist El Paso desalination solar project
The Public Services Board in El Paso, Texas, on 10 November 2010 voted to hire URS Corporation as a consultant to assist with the choice of a solar energy system to power part of the Kay Bailey Hutchison desalination plant.
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EDS promotes learning on desalination and renewable energy
The European Desalination Society is promoting two sets of courses looking at desalination using renewable energies.
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Small Jamaican wind/solar desalination project funded
A project to use solar and wind power to run a small reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination system in Jamaica has received US$ 40,000 in funding from Global Environment Facility, with an additional US$10,000 in cofunding to come from the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica.
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IDA issues call for papers for Portofino conference
The International Desalination Association is seeking presentations from industry and related NGOs on how the organization and the desalination community, as a whole, can be more responsive to human needs for clean and affordable potable water.
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IDA finalises Huntington Beach desalination energy conference topics
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has finalised the speakers and topics for its new-style conference Desalination: An Energy Solution, which is being held on 2-3 November 2010 in Huntington Beach, California, the city likely to host the USA’s next large desalination plant after Carlsbad.
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Trailer-mounted UF/RO unit works off solar power
A trailer-mounted, solar-powered membrane-based water treatment/desalination unit, specially designed for supply after a natural disaster or for independent water supply in remote areas, is now available from the Swiss-based company Trunz Water Systems AG.
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SwissINSO moves to Lausanne science hub
SwissINSO Holding Inc, a company dealing in the application of solar-power to water purification/desalination and heating/cooling of buildings, is moving to Switzerland’s prestigious Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Science Park, the Swiss Silicon Valley.
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Giant solar-cell factory to have HERO water purification
The largest silicon solar manufacturing factory in the world is to use a high-efficiency reverse- osmosis (HERO) ultra-pure water treatment system supplied by GE. SunPower Corp selected GE to supply the new SunPower-AUO joint-venture solar-cell fabrication plant in Malaysia.
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Sustainable Réunion wastewater plant to use MF
Microfiltration will be used as part of a modern wastewater treatment plant on the island of Réunion to be built under a concession awarded by the Réunion North Interdistrict Community to a consortium led by Veolia Water.