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What’s next in desal?

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Desal-related R&D is at an all time high. Research centers from Saudi Arabia to Singapore, and Texas to Australia are looking for new ways to reduce costs, increase performance and mitigate environmental impacts. Meanwhile, companies hunt for technologies to acquire…

SWRO plant to double output

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Work began two weeks ago to increase the size of the Palmachim Seawater Desalination Plant from 45 million m³/y to 90 million m³/y. The project was built by Via Maris Desalination, a special purpose company created to undertake the…

MegaMagnum RO element downsized

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) has advised customers that it will no longer offer its 60-inch long MegaMagnum RO elements for brackish or seawater systems. The 18-inch diameter element, which had 3,050 ft2 (283m2) of active membrane area, will be…

Semipermeable or SUPERpermeable?

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

In last week’s Science, researchers at the University of Manchester presented yet another potential application for a material that the University humbly says “is going to revolutionize the 21st Century.” Already dubbed ‘a miracle material’, the report, entitled Unimpeded…

A Biofouling canary

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

INPHAZE Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based scientific instruments company, has developed a fouling monitor that can detect the onset of fouling and scaling in high-pressure membrane systems using high-resolution electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The monitor was developed by Professor Hans…

Chemical company has new home

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Bahrain’s Seera Investment Bank has announced the sale of BWA Water Additives, a UK-based specialty chemicals company, to Berwind Corporation, a Philadelphia-based, family-owned investment management company whose investment philosophy is said to favor long-term investments. The deal was valued…

Mahle Group acquires Innowa company

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Mahle Group’s Industry business unit – which combines all of the German company’s non-automotive activities – has announced the acquisition of InnoWa Membrane. InnoWa, also based in Germany, offers a range of polyethersulfone UF hollow fiber membranes for POU and…

Aurecon to conduct feasibility study at separate sites of South Africa

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Umgeni Water, South Africa’s state-owned water supplier, has awarded Aurecon a contract to conduct a feasibility study that will consider procuring up to 300,000 m³/d (79.2 MGD) of desalinated seawater from two separate plants for potable use in the cities…

Ministry of Water Resources release RFQ for consultants for Main Outfall Drain project

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources has issued an RFQ for consultants to evaluate the desalination and reuse options for treating brackish run-off from its Main Outfall Drain, an agricultural drainage system that discharges into the Shatt al-Arab River. Bids must…

Sydney Desalination plant expects to receive four bids

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Four groups expected to submit bids for the long-term lease for the 250 ML/d (66 MGD) Sydney Desalination Plant are Queensland Investment Corporation and RREEf, Trility and Acciona, Industry Funds Management, and a combination of Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund and…

Ravi Subramanian appointed as Regional Commercial Manager of Koch

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00

Koch Membrane Systems has appointed Ravi Subramanian as its regional commercial manager for Southeast Asia. He was formerly with Keppels and Dow and is based in Singapore. He may be contacted at ravi.subramanian@kochmembrane.com.

Carlsbad ‘final’ schedule taking shape

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Last week, San Diego County Water Authority’s staff told its Board of Directors that it was making progress towards finalizing a draft agreement with Poseidon Resources to purchase water from the Carlsbad Desal Project. Ken Weinberg, the Authority’s Director of…

Desal and Renewable Energy

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Two years ago, during a Tehran desal conference, an Iranian television station aired a live panel discussion in which the country’s desal future was being discussed. The moderator asked all of the usual questions about the energy efficiency of various…

Waste-to-energy plant will get RO

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Biwater AEWT has been selected to supply a 2 MGD (7,570 m³/d) BWRO system at Pinellas County Utilities’ waste-to-energy (WTE) facility in St Petersburg, Florida. The solid waste facility will use the RO system to treat water from an existing…

EPC contractor selected for BWRO

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00

Italy’s OSMO Sistemi has been selected to supply a 17,280 m³/d (4.6 MGD) BWRO system for Office National de l’Eau Potable’s (ONEP) Dakhla project in southern Morocco. Negotiations for the MAD100 million ($11.8 million) EPC project – which was initially…