President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Tuesday, could significantly expand the list of companies categorized as part of U.S. critical infrastructure sector, security experts said Wednesday. The executive order ...
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Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems ...
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German Water Partnership, as a partner of Wasser Berlin International (WBI), will carry out and contribute to a variety of activities and events within the framework of the trade fair, the international congresses and the fora on water and ...
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Syrinix has been shortlisted for the Water Industry Achievement Awards (WIAA) in partnership with Thames Water. The companies are championing Syrinix’s TrunkMinder system in the category of Most Innovative New Technology of the Year. ...
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Xylem Inc. has won a contract to develop a customised water treatment system for the town of Taralga, situated 140 kilometres south west of Sydney, Australia. Xylem will produce a containerised solution using GE ZeeWeed membrane ...
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This paper provides an updated review on the boron problem, and discusses methods for boron removal as well as comparative studies on technologies for water deboronation. This review paper by Polish researchers – in a Special Issue ...
Headworks BIO Inc. has been awarded a contract by Claude Resources Inc. to supply its Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) technology to treat underground mine water at the Seabee Gold Mine in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Headworks BIO is ...
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Matias Amor has joined Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) as regional sales manager, Water and Wastewater for Spain and Portugal. He will be responsible for increasing Koch Membrane Systems’ commercial growth in this region and developing ...
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Aquatech, the wastewater treatment recycle and reuse company, has been granted a permit to operate a central treatment facility in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA. The facility, designed using Aquatech’s MoSuite™ set of ...
German company MICRODYN-NADIR has installed membrane bioreactor technology to ensure that wastewater from a hospital meets the highest possible effluent standards and eliminates micro pollutants. The chemical industry faces many ...
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With the February edition of World Pumps due for publication, here’s a preview of what’s inside Application stories are concentrating this issue on water & wastewater with projects from around the world including improvements ...
Membrane technology is emerging as an increasingly viable solution to water and wastewater treatment due to its production of high-quality effluent, according to analysis from consultants Frost & Sullivan. Intense R&D efforts have ...
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This review surveys reports on boron transport and removal using ion-exchange membranes. The economic feasibility of boric acid separation by electrodialysis cannot be questioned, but ED borate removal is limited by the necessity for ...
Tags: Boron Transport, Removal Using Ion-Exchange Membranes, Machinery
The organisers of WWEM 2012, the Water Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring event, have announced that visitor numbers were up by 22% in comparison with 2010. On behalf of the organisers, Marcus Pattison expressed his delight with this ...
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This review paper considers the removal efficiency of treatment processes for antibiotics in urban wastewaters. The removal efficiency is dependent on antibiotics’ physicochemical properties, and on the treatment process operating ...