Tag: Solar
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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.
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IDE named in Fortune’s top 50 Change the World list of companies
IDE Technologies is ranked second in this year’s Fortune top 50 Change the World list of companies, behind GlaxoSmithKline and ahead of General Electric.
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Interview: IDE Technologies CEO Avshalom Felber
Above all, IDE is a solutions provider. So says chief executive Avshalom Felber, the former financial whizz turned water industry leader, as he outlines the company’s unique mix of thermal and reverse osmosis (RO) technologies, operational expertise, and contractual nous.
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Dubai prepares to add desalination capacity at Jebel Ali power station
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has unveiled details of a contract handed to an unnamed company to develop a new desalination facility at Jebel Ali power station.
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Water scarcity stokes civil unrest in rural India
The Times of India is reporting a series of protests about a lack of drinking water by groups of hundreds of people in rural areas of southern India.
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MIT researchers host Reddit Ask Me Anything session on photovoltaic EDR system
Researchers at MIT have developed a solar-powered electrodialysis system that could "provide 250 million people in India with safe and affordable water," MIT News reports.
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Review of global green energy shows solar pv is on the rise
The world now adds more renewable power capacity than it does fossil fuel capacity each year, with 147 GW of renewable energy capacity added in 2015.
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Global demand for desalination to rise each year until at least 2020
Desalination capacity is expected to grow by 8 per cent annually to 140 million m3/d by 2020, new research shows.
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Solar membrane distillation ideal for remote areas
Fraunhofer ISE develops solar thermally driven compact desalination systems based on membrane distillation for a capacity range between 100 and 500 L/d and larger system capacities up to 10 m³/d. A modular design of systems is important in order to resize them to a wide range of user profiles. Membrane distillation (MD) is a separation…