On Feb. 9, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office announced 10 winners of the third stage of the Waves to Water Prize, unlocking the door to the next stage of the prize, CREATE. The five-stage, $3.3 million contest aims to accelerate innovation in small, modular, wave-powered desalination systems capable of producing clean...
Published on Science History Institute By Jacob Roberts, Kenton G. Jaehnig An archives collection at the Science History Institute gives a glimpse of Americans’ early efforts at desalination, a technology that nations around the globe have come to depend on. In the spring of 1961 the southern and western United States was just starting to recover...
Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) is pleased to announce the start of the request for proposals (RFP) phase as an important step for Ras Al-Khair (RAK) privatization, where a number of (7) strategic qualified companies and consortiums have been invited to submit their bids to participate in the plant, The winner Bidder will own (60%)...
Mungia, Spain – 12th January 2021, TALIS, the leading global provider of premium valves, hydrants and other solutions for water flow control, today announced project awards totalling more than 7 million Euros, to supply equipment to multiple desalination facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. TALIS will supply several BELGICAST Centric Butterfly Valves and BELGICAST Dual Plate...
Italmatch Biolab Industrial will use Italmatch’s raw materials and technology and Biolab’s local manufacturing infrastructure to produce and sell additives and final solutions for Industrial Water & Process Treatment in the Gulf Region with strong focus on Desalination and O&G local markets. Genoa – December 23rd, 2020 – Italmatch Chemicals Group, a leading global specialty chemical group focused on...
The makeup of produced water generated from oil, natural gas, or coal-seam-gas (CSG) production and other sources creates many challenges for water reuse or discharge to the environment. Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are essential to treatment, but not all industrial applications warrant identical approaches. Whether an RO membrane decision-maker works for an organization generating produced...
Published on IDRA Global Connections Fall 2020 Issue By Mr. Roch Cheroux Sydney is a city of waterways – our iconic harbour, rivers and famous beaches shape our identity and lifestyle. Sydney is also the economic, cultural and employment heart of NSW, and arguably Australia – it is also the largest city in the world’s...
Published on IDRA Global Connections Fall 2020 Issue By Ms. Menatalla Sadek Growing up in Egypt, we have always been taught that we were privileged with a country that was gifted with it all: a perfect location right in the middle of three continents, access to the magnificent Mediterranean Sea on our northern coast; and...
LG Chem has been selected as the RO membrane supplier of the Al Khobar II project, one of the largest RO seawater desalination projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With 600 million liters per day (MLD) or 158 million gallons per day (MGD) production capacity, it is the largest project win in LG Chem’s...
Published on IDRA Global Connections Fall 2020 Issue An Interview with Dr. Peter Fiske, Executive Director of the US National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) What has been the biggest gap in US advanced water treatment research identified by NAWI? Does this have international applications? NAWI identified 6 key challenges in water treatment research, all of which, I think, have international...
