Technology - Membrane & Filtration

Conwed Plastics celebrating golden years in manufacturing membranes

Another membrane-related company is celebrating its 50-year anniversary in 2016. Conwed Plastics, the Minnesota-based company that manufactures feed spacers for spiral-wound RO membranes, began...

RO OEM celebrates milestone

After reading last week’s year-in-review issue, which acknowledged several companies that celebrated 50years in the desalindustry during 2015, Julie Nemeth-Harn told WDR that Harn R/O is also...

New technology and products

Many companies broadened their technology offerings with new products. RWL Water introduced a new line of containerized, pre-engineered RO systems [7], Pall launched a newly packaged modular MF...

Forward Osmosis

Oasys Water released photos of its FO-outfitted Membrane Brine Concentrator (MBC) being installed in a ZLD system at a Chinese power plant [2]. The system, which was delivered under a BOT contract,...

Tuas 3 to include new desal technology

In 2008, Evoqua Water Technologies (then Siemens Water) won the Singapore Challenge, a competition initiated by the Singaporean government to cut the energy cost of desalination in half. Two years...

SWRO reaches delivery milestone

Despite two setbacks resulting from severe weather, Abengoa announced that its 100,000 m3/d (26.2 MGD) Skikda, Algeria SWRO plant reached a total production milestone of 200 million m3 (52.8...

Toray to supply UF membranes to Thailand's water filtration plant

Toray has received an order for its Torayfil hollow fiber UF membranes for a 110,000 m3/d surface water filtration plant in Bangkok, Thailand. The potable water facility, which will be the largest...

Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance release CO2 emissions on desal

In conjunction with last week’s 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), the Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance – H2O minus CO2 launched a multi-stakeholder platform to...

Lanxess' BWRO membrane elements successful desalting

Germany’s Lanxess reports that 400 of its low-energy BWRO membrane elements have been successfully desalting river water from a Danube tributary near Belgrade for the past year. Following...

Forward osmosis déjà vu

In 1987, Keith Lampi, Robert Salter and two colleagues developed a membrane filtration technology to dewater raspberry juice while working out of a garage in Corvallis, Oregon. Although they were...