Tag: Wastewater Reuse
-
Fybroc expands 2530 Series seawater pump
US pumpmaker Fybroc has expanded its 2530 Series line for desalination and other applications beyond the recently introduced 4x6x13 size to now also include a 4x6x10 pump size.
-
New website for Germany’s inge
German provider of ultrafiltration (UF) technology inge watertechnologies AG has a new website at www.inge.ag.
-
Australian government rebate for domestic water reuse
Australian households will be eligible for a rebate of up to Aus$ 500 (US$ 315) each for the purchase of a rainwater tank or a greywater reuse system under a new government program announced by the Minister for Climate Change & Water, Senator Penny Wong, on 30 January 2009.
-
Membrane retrofit enables feedwater switch
Use of Dow’s latest fouling-resistant desalination membrane technology successfully enabled a Dutch industrial water treatment plant to switch its feedwater from a river estuary to municipal sewage effluent.
-
American Water to research water reuse methods for WRF
An extensive review of methods for detecting and measuring micro-organisms in reused water or wastewater treatment effluent is to be undertaken in the USA by American Water on behalf of the WateReuse Foundation (WRF), the foundation announced on 30 January 2009.
-
Workshop on membrane water technologies set for March
A workshop on alternative water resources, such as brackish-water desalination and wastewater reuse is being organised in Thessaloniki, Greece on 5 March 2009 by the Center for Research and Technology Hellas and the Berlin Centre of Competence for Water.
-
FO/RO system can treat difficult wastes
A method of combining forward osmosis (FO) with reverse osmosis (RO) desalination to treat difficult effluents has been developed by Catalyx, a product development company based in California.
-
Understanding microbes could increase MBR efficiency, conference told
A thorough understanding of the physiology of micro-organisms found in membrane bioreactors (MBRs) used in advanced wastewater treatment and water reuse would greatly improve the overall efficiency of these systems, a conference in Singapore was told on 23 January 2009.
-
WRF seeks desalination and reuse funding proposals
The WateReuse Foundation on 21 January 2009 issued a request for preproposals for funding consideration under its 2009 Unsolicited Research Program, which funds researchers proposing projects designed to meet the future needs of the water reuse and desalination community.
-
Texas A&M researches desalination for oil production water
A membrane filtration process for treatment and desalination of wastewater created during oil and gas drilling is being researched at Texas A&M University in the USA under a recent agreement between the university and oilfield service company M-I Swaco.