Tag: South Africa
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MottMac buys up South African engineering firm
Johannesburg-based engineering specialist PD Naidoo & Associates has been acquired by global engineering firm Mott MacDonald.
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South Africans develop oil-water separation membrane
Researchers in South Africa have fabricated and tested a nanotube-infused membrane which could be used to treat polluted wastewater such as oil-containing waste from oil & gas operations.
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Feasibility started for South African desalination plant
A feasibility study is underway in South Africa’s Northern Cape for a 7,000 m³/d seawater desalination plant at Abraham Villiers Bay close to the town of Kotzesrus.
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Veolia supplies RO desalination to Mauritania mine
A 1,500 m³/d reverse-osmosis (RO) brackish-water desalination plant has been supplied to a mine in Mauritania by Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies South Africa, with a heat-exchanger to cool the water.
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Mossel Bay desalination usage quandary for council
The Mossel Bay Town Council in South Africa is debating what to do with its new 15,000 m³/d seawater desalination plant because all the town’s water supply dams are full.
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PWT signs three new overseas distributors
Three new distributors in Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa have been signed up by Professional Water Technologies (PWT), the business unit of Canada’s H2O Innovation Inc.
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Feasibility study sought for Durban desalination
Umgeni Water, a major bulk water supplier in South Africa, has issued a tender for a detailed feasibility study of a seawater desalination plant for Durban, according to a report in Business Day on 4 November 2011.
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Tianjin selected for 2013 IDA World Desalination Congress
Tianjin, China, is to be the venue for the 2013 World Congress on Desalination & Water Reuse to be held by the International Desalination Association (IDA).
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Cape Town action on desalination and water reuse
The City of Cape Town, South Africa, is planning to issue a tender for a feasibility study of a “large‐ scale” seawater desalination plant within the next month. The study will determine the most appropriate location and size for such a plant.
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Giant S African power plant to have maximum water reuse
Maximum water reuse for what will be one of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants in South Africa is to be provided by GE under a US$ 40 million contract.