Desal Data News | Malta

KSB to install energy recovery system to Pembroke desalination plant

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00

Pump producer KSB has installed its first commercial large-scale energy recovery system at Malta’s Pembroke seawater desalination plant. The system is installed on a 3,800 m³/d (1 MGD) SWRO train and consists of two SalTec isobaric pressure exchanging devices, a…

Pressure Exchanger Cuts Desalination Costs on Malta

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00

In early July 2008, an isobaric energy recovery system developed by KSB started operation in the Pembroke seawater desalination plant on Malta. Consisting of two SalTec DT250 operating in parallel, the system uses hydraulic power transmission to reduce energy costs…

20+ year old membranes still desalting

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00

Consultant Richard Morris returned to Glasgow last week after visiting the major rehabilitation of the three SWRO plants currently underway, and told WDR that all of the original DuPont B-10 membranes are being replaced with spiral wound Toray elements, Codeline…

Rewarding torture and blackmail with nuclear energy

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:00:00

So now we know how to do it. After years of mysteries wrapped inside enigmas, we now know how any country, regardless of its international reputation, can lay its hands on nuclear energy for absolutely free… so long as the…

Transition

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00

Long-time desalter Mike Lamendola, president and owner of San Jose-based Seawater Systems, died last Sunday from complications of liver cancer. Mike’s involvement with desalination extends back to the late 1970’s and his days with Polymetrics and Malta’s early SWRO plants.…

Transition

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00

Friday Wisdom: Malta warming

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:00:00

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction…

Friday Wisdom: Malta warming

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:00:00

Malta highly vulnerable to climate change

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00

BBC World Service environment reporter Matt McGrath was in Malta to see how the rising waters are making life more difficult on the Mediterranean island. Malta is described as one of the most crowded spaces in the world and highly…

Malta to face severe water shortage

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00

Malta should brace itself for a "major problem" in energy security as a result of global warming, climate experts have warned. The water table will be depleted, as an increasing population demands more water in tropical temperatures, amid a widely…

Well attended Euromed 2004 short on speakers, Turkey next in 2006

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:00:00

More than 200 registered at third Euromed 2004 conference organized by European Desalination Society at Marrakech, Morocco, from May 31 to June 3. Conference followed theme of previous events held in Djerba, Tunisia (2000) and Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (2002)…

Membrane Desalination Technologies workshop

Thu, 02 Oct 2003 00:00:00

Irv Moch, pres. of I. Moch & Associates, and Mohamad A. Saad, pres, Masar Technologies, will conduct full-day training workshop on Membrane Desalination Technologies in Practice on Friday, October 3, at conclusion of IDA Congress. Guidelines for effective control of…

Malta seawater RO technology on a commercial scale successful project

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:00:00

"Malta was the first country to demonstrate successfully the application of seawater RO technology on a commercial scale with the production of 20,000 cu.m/day in 1982. Subsequently, the installation of new plant boosted desalination capacity to 120,000 cu.m/d, equivalent to…

Two MVC unit for Granadilla power station contract awarded to IDE

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:00:00

IDE Technologies won contract for two Mechanical Vapor Compression units, each 750 tons per day (198,150 GPD), for Unelco/Endesa combined cycle power station in Granadilla, Tenerife, Canary Islands. IDE client is project contractor Tecnicas Reunidas SA of Madrid, Spain. Fredi…

Saudi Arabian A&E and Zuhair Fayez partnership

Thu, 05 Dec 2002 00:00:00

Saudi Arabian A&E firm Zuhair Fayez partnership consultants wants to locate U.S. co. specializing in multi-effect distillation systems to help with upcoming 8000 cu.m/day Saudi Aramco BOOT project. "Our expectation from this co is to supply the 8000 cu.m/d MED…