Desalination

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  • Latest trends in optimising desalination technology
    Australia has invested $10 billion in six major seawater desalination plants around its coastline in as many years to waterproof its capital cities - at the same time providing a significant boost for renewable energy.
  • Clean and green water infrastructure
    Australia is experiencing an evolution in water infrastructure. Desalination plants and water-recycling facilities are just some of the major water infrastructure projects being built across the country. For government and designers, the challenge is how to create water infrastructure that improves access to water while minimising environmental footprint.
  • Brainstorming a path for desalination
    Some of the latest and most innovative ideas in sustainable and cost-effective desalination practices were raised and discussed at the inaugural National Desalination Research Roadmapping Workshop, held in Perth on 29 and 30 October.
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News (17)
  • Desalinated water for greening Flemington
    If Flemington racecourse looks a lot greener and the roses more colourful this Spring Racing Carnival, the answer is several metres below the surface.
  • $2.7m in grants to Victorian desal researchers
    Almost $2.7m in grants from government and industry partners has been received by Victoria University researchers for three innovative desalination projects.
  • IDA World Congress 2011 opens 4 September in Perth
    The IDA World Congress 2011 on Desalination and Water Re-use opened in Perth on 4 September with a program focus of ‘Sustainable Solutions for a Thirsty Planet’.
  • Desal research facility opens in WA
    The WA government has opened Australia’s first Desal Discovery Centre and dedicated Desal Research Facility at Murdoch University’s Rockingham campus and has also announced funding of $3.8m in new desalination research.
  • Desal Discovery Centre to open in Western Australia
    A new centre will explain the benefits and opportunities desalination offers to Australia as a fully sustainable new source of water independent of drought and climate change.
  • Advancing desalination technology
    The National Centre of Excellence in Desalination has awarded nearly $3 million in funding to research projects investigating ways to advance desalination technology.
  • Chinese desalination plant to use Norit technology
    Norit X-Flow has been selected to supply the ultrafiltration pretreatment technology for the Qingdao desalination project facility that will process 100,000 cubic metres of water per day.
  • National Centre of Desalination appoints Chair
    Graeme Rowley, former Executive Director of Operations at Fortescue Metals Group, has been announced as the inaugural Independent Chair of the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination.
  • Milestone for state infrastructure project
    AdelaideAqua has commenced work on the Adelaide desalination plant, part of the $1.37 billion Adelaide Desalination Project at Port Stanvac, south of Adelaide — a milestone towards delivery of first water in December 2010.
  • Seawater desalination project to produce 200,000 cubic metres of fresh water per day
    Energy Recovery has announced the award of another large-scale energy recovery contract for seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination in Algeria.
  • Desalination for long-term water security
    The CEO of the National Water Commission, Ken Matthews, has released a report showing that desalination technologies will play an increasingly important role in securing Australia’s water supplies. 'Emerging trends in desalination' is a report released by the National Water Commission that details the merits of desalination technologies and the significant role they play in securing water supply.
  • Energy savings for mining project in Australia
    Energy Recovery will supply energy recovery devices for a seawater reverse osmosis desalination project in Australia.
  • Event focuses on sustainable water solutions for cities
    The Singapore International Water Week is the global platform for water solutions that will bring together policymakers, industry leaders, experts and practitioners to address challenges, showcase technologies, discover opportunities and celebrate achievements in the water world.
  • Membranes used in desalination
    According to Tom Pankratz, a director of the International Desalination Association (IDA) and editor of the weekly Water Desalination Report, membranes that employ nanofiltration or reverse osmosis technologies to remove salt from water also effectively and consistently remove most organic compounds classified as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and endocrine disruptors (EDCs).
  • Energy-efficient desalination not a pipe dream
    The delivery of energy-efficient desalination received a boost with the establishment of a major new research collaboration between CSIRO and nine of Australia's leading universities.
  • Funding for desalination vessel
    Water Standard Company has received up to US$250 million in equity funding to develop its solution to help ease the world’s growing water crisis.
  • Contract awarded to supply motors and drives to desalination plant
    ABB has secured key contracts to supply motors and drives to the Gold Coast desalination plant. The plant, which is owned by the Queensland state government and Gold Coast City Council, claims to be the largest desalination plant on the eastern seaboard and is located at Tugun on the Gold Coast.
Case Study (8)
  • Desalination in Israel
    Increased water conservation and water use efficiency are a priority for countries worldwide. A vital process, in a number of countries, is to boost the supply of potable water by desalination. However, large-scale desalination typically requires large amounts of energy as well as specialised, expensive infrastructure, making it very costly compared to the use of fresh water from rivers or groundwater.
  • Water for good
    A huge new desalination plant in Lonsdale will provide South Australia with up to 100 billion litres of water each year for decades to come. Adelaide Aqua (a consortium of four Companies, United Utilities, Acciona, Abigroup and McConnell Dowell) has been contracted to design, build, operate and maintain the plant for the next 20 years.
  • Water treatment for coal seam gas industry
    QGC, an Australian coal seam gas explorer and producer, has signed a contract with a consortium of GE and Laing O’Rourke for the construction of a water-treatment plant in south-west Queensland that will support the region’s rapidly growing coal seam gas industry. Coal seam gas is a form of natural gas trapped in coal beds by water and ground pressure. High salinity water is produced as part of coal seam gas extraction, which must be treated in an environmentally responsible manner.
  • ‘Smart’ automation helping to secure Sydney’s water future
    The construction of Sydney Water’s new desalination plant at Kurnell, south-east of Sydney, is in full swing and is said to be on track to become operational this summer. The automation and control of this innovative project is based on Profibus technology. Endress+Hauser was selected to be one of three key members of the main automation alliance to engineer and supply all general instrumentation to the plant.
  • Mobile water treatment systems
    Two Pall mobile military water treatment systems, supplied to the Australian Army as part of a fleet of 18 systems, have been deployed as part of Operation Padang Assist, the Australian government’s humanitarian response to the recent earthquakes in Indonesia. Two water points established by the Australian Department of Defence on the beach of Padang are using the Pall-designed and -manufactured systems to convert seawater into potable water for up to 75,000 households. The water filtration systems are mobile, self-contained and can be transported by air, sea or land.
  • Wind-powered desalination plant
    An Australian-based developer of new wind-powered desalination plants is set to play a role in addressing the country’s severe water shortage.
  • Large KSB pumps for Western Australia
    In April 2009, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Germany, booked an order for four large water pumps to be supplied to a new pumping station in Western Australia.
  • Desalination energy efficiency
    "New discoveries in microbiology and nanotechnology applied to reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology will allow increased energy efficiency of desalination and water recycling plants around the world", said Dr David Garman
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