Technology - Membrane & Filtration

PV-powered desal report available

Abundant solar resources, combined with large amounts of brackish groundwater, can make the coupling of solar power and desalination an attractive water supply alternative in areas without access...

Akkim Water Solutions announce PVDF hollow fiber UF membrane module

Akkim Water Solutions, a Turkish water treatment chemicals business and subsidiary of Akkök Holding, has announced its introduction into the low-pressure water filtration market with a...

Texas firm focuses on membrane cleaning

Throughout his 40-year desalting career, Stuart Mitchell spent most of his time in the field—the first 15 years in operations and service roles and the rest as a sales engineer with large membrane...

SWRO water declared ‘drought-resilient’

State regulators certified the water supply from theCarlsbad Desal Plant as drought-resilient, reducing the regional impacts ofemergency water-use mandates the state imposed in June2015. The State...

Automatic SDI Measurement

RODI Systems EZ-SDI has been offering a manually initiated microprocessor controller to automatically conduct silt density index (SDI) tests since 2001. The company has now added a fully automated...

Loop tests are early corrosion indicator

Although desktop studies using solubility models are useful in considering corrosion control of water distribution piping, the simulations may not accurately predict the actual consequences of a...

MF/UF upgrade to reduce phosphorus

MWH Constructors and its recently acquired Slayden Construction subsidiary has been awarded a $125 million design-build contract to upgrade the tertiary membrane filtration system at the city of...

Ceramic UF module

Among the first-time exhibitors at the recent Membrane Technology Conference (MTC) was RODI Systems, a New Mexico-based supplier of pre-engineered membrane systems focused on the commercial and...

Desalitech supplied RO system to Novelis

Boston-based Desalitech said that it has furnished two ReFlex RO systems to the Atlanta-based Novelis’ aluminum sheet manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China. The two 50 GPM (3.2 L/s) BWRO...

Facility available for pilots, demos

Moving from the lab to the field can be one of the biggest challenges that a technologist faces when developing a new product or process. Getting ‘real world’ experience is critical to the...