Next year municipal drinking water plants around the world will spend just under $2 billion for cross-flow membrane equipment and systems. This is in addition to an expenditure of $3 billion to desalinate seawater. These are the conclusions ...
This Special Issue of Desalination brings together 15 papers on radioactive decontamination of water, including individual studies as well as comprehensive reviews of the latest technology developments in this field. This Special Issue on ...
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Desalination has become an essential tool to enable effective management of water strategies in the 21st century. To celebrate 50 years of Filtration+Separation we take a look back at the last 50 years of desalination by discussing major ...
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Mallard Creek Polymers, (MCP) continues to expand the markets for the company’s extensive product line of Acrylic Polymer Emulsions. The most recent success comes from Performance Coatings R&D and sales personnel focus on new ...
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A new system for chemical cleaning and repair of used reverse osmosis membranes (CCR-ROM) has been designed. The system consumes fewer chemical reagents and produces less waste water. Researchers at Sichuan University in China have ...
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Veolia Water is to design, build and operate Saudi Arabia's largest ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Sadara Petrochemical Complex in Jubail City. The new 178 000 m3 per day plant will supply the Sadara ...
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PWN Technologies and METAWATER have entered a strategic alliance to seek out and develop business opportunities for the supply of ceramic membrane systems. The agreement was recently signed by Jonathan Clement (CEO of PWN Technologies) ...
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This study develops a biofouling indicator for seawater desalination using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes in a southern California desalination pilot plant. Chlorophyll is identified as a sensitive indicator for membrane biofouling. One ...
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Nearly 80 percent of the investment in desalination this year will be for membrane treatment as opposed to thermal. The $8 billion which will be spent on membrane systems represents a large market for suppliers of valves, pumps and ...
Dow Water & Process Solutions has introduced DOW FILMTEC ECO Reverse Osmosis (RO) elements. Dow Water & Process Solutions says that it has focused its research on energy efficiency in current RO membranes and found that through ...
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LANXESS has expanded its range of membrane separation elements for reverse osmosis (RO)-based water treatment to include new low energy (LE) elements. "The operating pressures of the LE membrane elements are around 20-40% below those of ...
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Electrodialysis-based technologies were used to treat an industrial saline water, with both electrodialysis (ED) and bipolar membrane electrodialysis (EDBM) shown to be technologically feasible to desalinate the saline water at the lab ...
LUXE Linear Drains uses architectural grade, 100% stainless steel to produce a modern, stylish collection of linear channel drains and tile tray inserts for showers, tub to shower conversions or wetrooms in any residential or commercial ...
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Thousands of projects to purify drinking water for municipalities are in planning and construction. Most of these projects are to replace plants as old as one hundred years. The number of projects generated by demand growth is ...
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In an effort to expand certification and training efforts in the tile and stone industry, the Ceramic Tile Education Foundation (CTEF) Board of Directors recently appointed Bart Bettiga as its Executive Director. Bettiga, who is also the ...
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