Technology

Evoqua Water Technologies’ Memcor product group is exhibiting its double-ended, submerged UF system at this week’s MTC. The new product is designated as the Memcor CSII Ultrafiltration System,...

Late last week, the Israeli National News carried a story under the headline “Desalination found to cause fatal heart disease”. The story said that researchers from Bar Ilan University and Tel HaShomer Hospital had concluded that patients with heart disease that lived in areas served by the country’s seawater desalination plants were more likely to die than heart disease patients in...

Technologies designed to remove total dissolved solids (TDS) can be broadly categorized based on the intended end result: those whose primary...

Australia’s Osmoflo has been awarded a contract to supply an integrated UF/RO system to treat wastewater from the Stone & Wood Brewery in...

LANXESS has released its new condensate polishing module for its LewaPlus integrated design software. The new module enables more reliable and...

Since the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA) was established in 2009, the Australian government has funded $20 million...

Obtaining pricing information on projects is always difficult and sometimes impossible. And when price breakdowns are available, it can be just as...

Porifera’s new dprShieldTM treatment process is one of six new water technologies to have been recommended to receive a $1 million applied research...

Following a 26 January bid opening, where bid prices exceeded budget expectations, the 5-year DBO tender for a 22,500 m3/d (6 MGD) SWRO plant at...

Germany’s Microdyn-Nadir said that it would introduce a new, larger MBR membrane module at the IFAT in Munich later this month. With 480 m2...

In the Spring issue of UK-based Genesys International’s company newsletter, there was a story intriguingly entitled “Autopsies of the Quarter”. The...

GE Water will furnish its zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology for Shaanxi Future Energy Chemical Company’s Hongdun coal-to-chemical...

Germany’s Microdyn-Nadir said that it would introduce a new, larger MBR membrane module at the IFAT in Munich later this month. With 480 m2...

At a 7 April board meeting, directors of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) agreed to select a team led by J.F. Shea for...

Last week, following a February partnership agreement in which Desalitech became a preferred supplier of RO systems for Pall’s mobile system fleet,...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation said that it has developed a compact, low-energy/high-flux MBR in conjunction with Tokyo City University. According...

Three days after the state experienced its third largest earthquake—a 5.1 magnitude tremor in Fairview, which researchers agree is due to...

With the ink barely dry on last week’s issue of WDR, reports that the Triton artificial gill was a fraud began to arrive. It seems that the...

In the mid-1960s, John Kessler’s interest in osmosis was piqued while reading a newsletter that explained why sharks don’t drink water. It seems...

Aquaporins—the protein channels that facilitate highly selective water transport through biological membranes—have long been studied as the perfect...

Over the past two weeks, several new desal technologies were announced with varying degrees of fanfare. It is unlikely that any desalter with an...