Desalination
New VP for Cummins Filtration
Steph Disher, VP of Cummins Filtration. (Photo: Business Wire). Cummins Inc has named Steph Disher as vice president of Cummins Filtration. Disher has been leading the Filtration business since August 2020, through the challenges of the global Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing supply chain constraints. Cummins is currently exploring strategic alternatives for the Filtration business. “Steph […]
Read MoreToray awarded membrane order for Saudi desalination plant
Toray Industries Inc is to supply reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for Saudi Arabia’s Rabigh 3 desalination plant. The 600 000 m3/day desalination plant will be the largest SWRO plant in Saudi Arabia and one of the largest in the world. Toray Membrane Middle East LLC (TMME), Toray’s local subsidiary in Dammam, will provide the RO […]
Read MoreNew dates for IDA World Congress
IDA helps ensure clean water sources for future generations. In consideration of the Australian Government’s vaccination and border reopening plan, the International Desalination Association (IDA) has decided to postpone the 2022 IDA World Congress and Exhibition, previously scheduled for May 29-June 2, 2022. The new date is 9-13 October, 2022, which will ensure an in-person […]
Read MoreDuPont to deliver membranes for Sorek B desalination plant
IDE Water Technologies has selected DuPont’s FilmTec membranes to provide the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) filtration for the Sorek B desalination plant in Israel. The 25-year, 200 million m3/year facility will be the largest desalination plant in Israel and one of the largest in the world when it comes online in 2023. DuPont is providing […]
Read MoreIDA 2022 World Congress – call for extended abstracts
The 2022 IDA World Congress and Exhibition will provide knowledge-sharing and interaction for participants on both technical and business topics related to the use of desalination and water reuse solutions for a secure water future. The International Desalination Association (IDA) has called for extended abstracts for its 2022 World Congress on the theme of Charting […]
Read MoreIDA announces new dates for desalination conference
The 3-day Specialty Conference on Innovation in Desalination has been moved from September 2021 to February 2022. The International Desalination Association (IDA), Desalination Technology Research Institute (DTRI) and the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) have announced that the 3-day Specialty Conference on Innovation in Desalination will be held on 7–9 February 2022, at the Ritz […]
Read MoreMarch’s top filtration news stories
The most-read news stories on the Filtration+Separation website in March 2021 were Toray’s new PVDF ultrafiltration membrane with a high virus removal rate, the launch of Amiad’s disc filtration system and the filtration industry’s response to Covid-19. 1. Toray develops virus-removing UF membrane Toray Industries has developed a new polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) ultrafiltration (UF) […]
Read MoreToyobo develops hollow fibre FO membrane system
The hollow fibre forward osmosis (FO) membrane reduces the discharge of concentrated seawater and utilises the energy generated within the system. Toyobo has jointly developed an environmentally friendly water treatment system equipped with a hollow fibre forward osmosis (FO) membrane for desalination plants. The company worked with the Abu-Dhabi based Sustainable Water Power Consultants (SWPC) […]
Read MoreIDA partnership for new speciality conference
The conference will include a visit to the SWCC desalination and technology demonstration facilities.. The International Desalination Association (IDA) will partner with the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) – Desalination Technology Research Institute (DTRI) for an international specialty conference on Innovation in Desalination, taking place 27–29 September 2021, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This event will […]
Read MoreIDA postpones World Congress until 2022
The 2022 IDA World Congress and Exhibition will provide knowledge-sharing and interaction for participants related to the use of desalination and water reuse solutions. After close consultation with its Australian government partners, the International Desalination Association (IDA) has decided to postpone the 2021 IDA World Congress, which was originally scheduled for 7–11 November 2021 to […]
Read MoreAlfa Laval secures SEK75mn decanter order in Singapore
Alfa Laval has won a SEK75 million order to supply decanters to a wastewater treatment plant in Singapore. The decanters will be used for dewatering and thickening of domestic and industrial sludge in the water reclamation plant. The order has been booked in the Decanters unit of Alfa Laval’s Food & Water division. Delivery is […]
Read MoreRensa acquires US air filtration company
Rensa Filtration has acquired Air Filters Inc (AFI), a Texas, USA-based full-line filtration manufacturer. AFI specialises in custom and high-volume manufacturing to meet any air filtration need, from filters to custom parts. Products include pleated air filters and HEPA filters as well as a complete line of Aire-Loc fore-market metal HVAC and HEPA housings. AFI’s […]
Read MoreToray to provide membranes for desal plants in Bahrain and UAE
Japan’s Toray Industries Inc has secured orders to supply reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for the Al Dur 2 Desalination Plant in Bahrain and the Umm Al Quwain Desalination Plant in the United Arab Emirates. Toray Membrane Middle East LLC (TMME) based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia will supply the RO membranes and provide technical services to […]
Read MoreIDA World Congress returns to Australia
The centrepiece of the Congress is its Technical Programme covering all aspects of desalination and water reuse. The International Desalination Association’s (IDA)World Congress 2021 will take place from 7–11 November 2021 in Sydney, Australia, a decade on from its 2011 World Congress in Perth. The 2021 IDA World Congress and exhibition will provide knowledge-sharing and […]
Read MoreHengst strengthens filtration management team
Volker Plücker has joined Hengst as group vice president Industrial Filtration. Plücker was most recently CEO of the Filtration Group’s acquired Mahle Industrial Filtration business. He has also served as CEO of Weber Hydraulik and headed up Mann+Hummel’s industrial filtration business for 12 years. Plücker is now part of the Hengst management team and will […]
Read MoreToray joint research could boost RO systems
The research findings could help enhance the water permeability and substance removal capabilities of RO systems. (Image: Shutterstock) Toray Industries has announced joint research findings that could help enhance the water permeability and substance removal capabilities of reverse osmosis (RO) systems. The company undertook the research with the Bioengineering Laboratory and Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory […]
Read MoreLanxess introduces new normalisation software
The PerforMem program, developed by LANXESS, can be used to evaluate the performance of a reverse osmosis system and quickly identify faults. (Image: LANXESS) Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has developed PerforMem, software for analysing reverse osmosis which automatically imports system data from templates in standard process control systems and normalises large volumes of data. When […]
Read MoreExecutive team changes at Xylem
Xylem has appointed two new commercial and segment leaders to its executive team. Hayati Yarkadas is the new senior vice president, and president, Water Infrastructure & Europe Commercial Team, while Matthew Pine has been appointed SVP and president, Applied Water Systems & Americas Commercial Team. Yarkadas was most recently president of Performance Materials at Trinseo, […]
Read MoreMembrion raises funding for commercial production
Membrions silica gel-based membranes. (Image: Membrion) Membrion, a manufacturer of lower cost, high performance ion exchange membranes, has received a total of US$6 million funding to begin commercial production of its silica gel ceramic membranes at its new production facility in Seattle. The company has developed Molecular Self Assembly (MSA) technology that uses readily available, non-toxic […]
Read MoreSaltworks commissions membrane concentrator
used together, the technologies within the membrane concentrator can concentrate highly scaling brines to 130,000 mg/L total dissolved solids. Saltworks Technologies has begun commissioning a membrane concentrator which makes extensive use of turbocharged reverse osmosis. The turbocharging relies on four elements: BrineRefine technology to remove scaling ions, which enables downstream processing at extremely high recoveries; […]
Read MoreInge secures its biggest-ever contract
Inge GmbH’s ultrafiltration technology has been chosen as a pretreatment stage for a seawater desalination facility in Singapore. The replacement project is Inge’s biggest contract to date. The contract covers 68 Inge T-Rack 3.0 trains equipped with more than 7000 dizzer XL type modules. These will replace old UF membranes from another manufacturer at the […]
Read MoreIDA announces strategic partnership
Officials from the IDA and the Chinese Society of Seawater Desalination and Water Reuse at the signing ceremony. The International Desalination Association (IDA) recently signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Chinese Society of Seawater Desalination and Water Reuse. The partnership agreement was signed at the opening ceremony of the West Lake International Water Conference, […]
Read MoreKKR and XPV Water Partners form wastewater treatment platform
Investment firm KKR and Canada’s XPV Water Partners have established a platform to provide end-to-end nutrient management solutions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities. Through the acquisitions of Environmental Operating Solutions Inc (EOSi) and Nexom Inc the platform aims to address nutrient contamination of water globally by building a diversified and growing portfolio of […]
Read MoreIntelliquip acquired by FPX
FPX, the B2B selling cloud vendor, has acquired Intelliquip, the front-end sales CPQ (Configure, Price and Quote) solutions developer for the fluid handling equipment industry. In acquiring Intelliquip, FPX broadens its offering of purpose-built solutions that simplify the selling of complex manufactured goods and adds more than 70 customers worldwide. Founded in 2000 and based […]
Read MoreSIDEM Barrel launched at IDA World Congress
The SIDEM Barrel at the Veolia Oman Sur treatment plant. SIDEM, a Veolia company, recently introduced its new modular reverse osmosis technology called the Barrel, at the IDA World Congress in Dubai. The Barrel is an integrated solution, a multi RO element vessel where the RO process implementation is identical to the one the company […]
Read MoreToray to provide membranes for Brazilian SWRO plant
Toray is to supply its Romembra reverse osmosis (RO) and Torayfil ultrafiltration (UF) membrane technologies for a new seawater desalination facility in Brazil. Steel producer ArcelorMittal selected Fluence Corp for the design, engineering and construction contract through an international tender process. The US$10 million plant, which is expected to be operational by the fourth quarter […]
Read MoreTRSDC and KAUST announce Brains for Brine winners
Mr. Martin Stahl, TRSDC (far right) presented the award to the winners of the Brains for Brine Challenge at Aquatech 2019. (Image: TRSDC) The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) recently announced three winners of their international Brains for Brine Challenge. Launched in April 2019, the competition challenged […]
Read MoreToyobo and SWCC to pilot test brine concentration membrane technology
Japan’s Toyobo Co Ltd and Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a joint pilot test aimed at realizing the practical application of a new brine concentration (BC) membrane technology that uses concentrated brine discharged by seawater desalination plants. Along with Toyobo’s consolidated subsidiary Arabian Japanese Membrane […]
Read MoreSaltworks’ RO advances commercially available
The advanced RO accomplishments involve the combination of specialised RO membranes and process-control innovations. Saltworks has announced that recent advancements in its reverse osmosis technology are now commercially available. The company says it is changing the cost equation for brine management and minimal liquid discharge. In the MLD and near ZLD space, advanced reverse osmosis […]
Read MoreIDA – sustainability and water management workshop
Dr Corrado Sommariva, will be the instructor at a workshop covering sustainability and water management at the IDA Congress. The founder and CEO of Sustainable Water and Power Consultants (SWPC), Dr Corrado Sommariva, will be the instructor at a workshop covering sustainability and water management on 20 October, during the IDA World Congress at the […]
Read MoreInge provides ultrafiltration technology for Qatari mega project
A mega project to produce municipal drinking water from seawater in Qatar will install Inge® Multibore® UF technology. The project, which involves expanding the existing Facility D IWWP plant in Economic Zone 3, south of Doha, will require 5500 dizzer XL type modules in a T-Rack® 3.0 configuration, installed in 48 trains of UF racks. […]
Read MoreIDA presents Dr Adriana Marais as keynote speaker
Dr Adriana Marais will make the keynote address at the IDA World Congress. Theoretical physicist, Dr Adriana Marais will make a keynote address entitled, Off-World: Above and Beyond, at the IDA World Congress opening day ceremonies on Monday 21 October. Dr Marais is founder of Off-World, director of the Foundation for Space Development, and an […]
Read MoreFilinvest and Hitachi to set up water solutions JV in the Philippines
Philippine conglomerate Filinvest Development Corporation (FDC) and Hitachi Aqua-Tech Engineering Pte Ltd have signed a 60:40 joint venture agreement for a new water solutions company that will provide water solutions across the Philippines. Filinvest-Hitachi Omni Waterworks Inc, the planned joint venture company, will have its head office in Taguig City, the Philippines. The business will […]
Read MoreIDA presents Advanced Programme for World Congress
The Advanced Programme for the IDA World Congress has now been announced. The IDA has published its Advanced Programme for its 2019 World Congress, hosted by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). The Advanced Programme includes a detailed schedule of the Technical Programme, a full agenda for the Leaders’ Summit and comprehensive information regarding […]
Read MoreFiltration Mergers & Acquisitions Review: Q2 2019
Filtration-related M&A deals between April and June 2019 included: • Caloris Engineering buys US fabricator Seitz Stainless Caloris Engineering LLC, a US provider of membrane, evaporation and drying technology, acquired the Avon, Minnesota-based equipment fabricator Seitz Stainless. Easton, Maryland-headquartered Caloris Engineering offers evaporators, dryers and membranes for the food and beverage manufacturing sector, while Seitz Stainless fabricates […]
Read MoreRegistration for IDA Leaders’ Summit now open
The IDA Leaders Summit includes access to invite-only networking events and to the entire IDA World Congress. IDA’s first-ever exclusive Leaders’ Summit is now open for registration and includes access to invite-only networking events and to the entire IDA World Congress. The Leaders’ Summit will take place at the IDA World Congress from 20-24 October at […]
Read MoreJuly’s top filtration stories
The assembled highly hydrophobic hollow fibre membrane modules in a TS-30 Minimum Liquid Discharge (MLD) system. Photo: Memsift Innovations Pte Ltd, Singapore. Memsift’s first commercial EPC contract, SPX Flow’s plans to sell its Power and Energy business and Eaton’s automatic self-cleaning strainer were the most popular news stories on the Filtration+Separation website in July. 1. […]
Read MoreToray releases new TORAYFIL membrane module
The new TORAYFIL HFU-B2315AN is a pressurised PVDF UF membrane module for applications such as drinking water and pre-treatment of seawater RO systems. Toray Industries’ new TORAYFIL HFU-B2315AN is a pressurised PVDF ultrafiltration (UF) membrane module for applications such as drinking water, water reuse and pre-treatment of seawater RO systems. Toray’s new membrane module applies […]
Read MoreIDA training opportunities at 2019 World Congress
The IDA is offering training opportunities during its World Congress in October. The organisers of the 2019 IDA World Congress, entitled Crossroads to Sustainability, are offering two training opportunities during the Congress. The Congress will take place from 20-24 October at the Dubai World Trade Centre and there will be training for the Reverse Osmosis […]
Read MoreHoyer motors used in RO technology
The Norwater factory where Hoyer motors are being used in reverse osmosis systems. Motors supplied by a Danish supplier, Hoyer Motors, are being used in reverse osmosis systems in Norway. Norwegian company Norwater produces freshwater systems to vessels and rigs in the marine, fish farming and offshore industries. It provides fresh water for the salmon farming […]
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