Technology - Reuse and ZLD News

Microdyn-Nadir to introduce new MBR membrane

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 of membrane area, the new ‘Bio-Cel L’...

GE Water to supply ZLD technology to Yulin chemical facility

GE Water will furnish its zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technology for Shaanxi Future Energy Chemical Company’s Hongdun coal-to-chemical facility in Yulin City, China. The system will employ a...

Team selected for Reuse project

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 the award of a progressive design-build contract...

Mitsubishi Electric develops compact eco-MBR

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

Mobile unit provides high-recovery BWRO

Last week, following a February partnership agreement in which Desalitech became a preferred supplier of RO systems for Pall’s mobile system fleet, the company announced that Pall has awarded it a...

Less injection means more treatment

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

CEOR model matches water quality, oilfield

Traditional primary and secondary production approaches often yield less than half of the oil present in conventional reservoirs. Tertiary recovery methods such as Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery...

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...

Power plant discharge limits reviewed

On 30 September 2015, the US EPA promulgated new rules, which set federal limits on the discharge of certain constituents in the wastewater from steam generation power plants. The rules—the Final...

Consultants picked for reuse projects

At its mid-December board meeting, the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency (MRWPCA), the lead agency on the Pure Water Monterey project, selected Kennedy/Jenks Consultants to design...