Carbon Holdings, a company based in Egypt, engaged in developing petrochemical plants and projects, is planning to set up a petrochemical project named Tahir, at a cost of US$ 7 billion, in Ain Sokhna town in Egypt, ahram online reported. ...
About 18 months ago, I wrote about an MIT project in which computer models demonstrated that graphene could act as a filter in the desalination of water through the reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO is slightly less energy intensive than the ...
Miguel Galvez of NBD Nanotechnologies is recipient of 2013 Emerging Leaders Achievement Award. The International Desalination Association has announced the recipients of the Best Papers and Emerging Leaders Achievement Awards ths month's ...
Tags: IDA, 2013 Emerging Leaders Achievement Award, Miguel Galvez of NBD
This review of strategies for improving the performance of polyamide thin-film composite (PA-TFC) reverse osmosis (RO ) membranes looks in particular at surface modifications and the incorporation of nanoparticles. Polyamide thin-film ...
What's the biggest hurdle for a technological revolution in China's water desalination sector? It's certainly not a lack of potential market. In a country where water shortages have already crippled economic development, processing ...
This article reviews polymeric membrane fabrication techniques for pressure-driven membrane processes and membrane distillation, looking at the membrane structure–property relationship and how structure parameters affect membrane ...
The desalination performances of capacitive deionisation (CDI) and membrane capacitive deionisation (MCDI) cells have been investigated under different working voltages and feed concentrations, and assessed in terms of adsorption capacity ...
An osmotic microbial fuel cell (OsMFC) containing a forward-osmosis membrane, is hydraulically coupled with a microbial desalination cell (MDC) with ion-exchange membranes, for greatly improved desalination efficiency. It also achieves more ...
Tags: Microbial Fuel Cell, Cell, Electrical, Electronics
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 ...
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 ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
A new series of compact, pre-engineered seawater and brackish water reverse osmosis systems that incorporate Hyflux's proprietary Kristal® ultrafiltration pre-treatment technology has been introduced to meet challenging water treatment ...
Researchers have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic (PV) system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2000 times and converting 80% of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide ...
Tags: Swiss Funding, IBM, Electronics
This techno-economic evaluation and review of desalination costing aspects discusses factors that contribute to water cost variation. The impact of recent technology improvements on water cost variation is also discussed; the paper includes ...
Tags: techno-economic evaluation, Water Desalination, energy consumption
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been utilised to enhance the performance of water desalination technology. In particular, the smooth channels of CNTs facilitate improved flux in desalination. The application of CNTs in desalination is expected ...
Tags: Carbon nanotubes, water desalination technology, desalination
A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed that the GCC population will soar by 30% to 53.5 million people who will form an increasing strain on the region’s supplies of electricity, food and water. The report said that ...
Tags: GCC Population, Economist Intelligence Unit, 53.5 million