Technology - Membrane & Filtration
Port Stanvac SWRO plant to operate on full capacity
Adelaide’s 273,972 m3/d (72.4 MGD) SA Water SWRO plant at Port Stanvac, which is currently operating at a minimum output of 10 percent of its capacity, may be called upon to provide a greater...
NCEDA to conduct conference for water reuse and desalination
The National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA) will hold an International Water Reuse and Desalination Symposium titled, Building Urban Water Resilience, in Brisbane on 4-5...
Service plan for new ERD announced
Another announcement made at the recent IDA World Congress was Energy Recovery’s (ERII) announcement that it will introduce a new “groundbreaking PX Pressure Exchanger”, which will be the “most...
A 50-yr-old supplier you haven’t heard of
When it was founded as aregional manufacturer’s representative in 1965, Wigen WaterTechnologiesfocused on commercial and industrial water treatment. According to Jeff Wigen—the company’scurrent...
Chemical dosing software released
“Our industry has come a long way in the last fifty years,but many people still rely on outdated information when designing or operatingRO systems,”Avista Technologies’ president Dave Walker told...
Biwater introduced new UF rack system
California-based Biwater introduced an open plat-form UF rack system at the IDA World Congress. Biwater’s Richard White told WDR that the rack accommodates a variety of different UF modules...
System integrates Strainer/UF in FRP vessel
Spain’s Fluytec launched its newest membrane filtration system in San Diego, two weeks ago. Designated the i-UF, for ‘integrated UF’, the system combines the company’s FRP filter housing expertise...
Mining submarine springs
Freshwater springs are a well-known phenomenon in many coastal areas where rainwater from onshore mountains seeps underground before the less saline, more buoyant water may eventually rise—often...
Has thermal desal had its day?
The latest data from the GWI DesalData/IDA Worldwide Desalting Plant Inventory suggests that in 2014 demand for thermal desalination fell to its lowest level since 1962. Just six new thermal...
New UFs for RO pretreatment introduced
This past May, WDR did a story on the ‘universal rack’ or ‘open platform’ MF/UF concept, in which a system OEM designs flexibility into their membrane racks to allow for the use of membrane modules...
