Company News
California startup makes plans to install second desal device
September 19, 2009
Tustin, Calif-based DXV Water Technologies is planning to move into the second installation of its deep-sea desalination device in a matter of weeks.
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Deep-sea desal device prototype installed
September 14, 2009
NEWPORT BEACH, CA — A prototype of a deep-sea desalination device has been installed at the bottom of the San Joaquin Reservoir here, The Orange County Register reported September 3. The prototype relies on the intense pressures found deep in the ocean to push seawater through an array of membranes, then pump the purified water to the surface.
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Torrents of fresh water — from the ocean deep?
September 3, 2009
A pair of Tustin entrepreneurs is now testing a deep-sea device they say could radically change the way salt is separated from seawater – vastly reducing the cost by using far less energy than present-day systems.
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Depth Exposed Membrane for Water Extraction
August 19, 2009
DXV Water Technologies designed a novel membrane system that uses natural pressure, a very low recovery rate and gravity flow of feedwater past the membrane surface, microfiltration or ultrafiltration resulting in an elegant, efficient system.
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California Water Crisis Hearing on August 21st
August 2, 2009
DXV Water Technologies to present at California Select Committee hearing on regional solutions to the water crisis
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Water Chats -- DXV Desalination
February 11, 2009
"Because DXV's system uses 1/3 the energy of current systems, it produces water at half the total cost (capital costs are the same), i.e., $0.50/m3. DXV's cost will ALWAYS be lower than on-shore, high-pressure desal because both technologies use the same filters. It's the method of holding the filters that differs."
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Water Desalinization Report - A new approach to Deep sea RO
August 18, 2008
"Using vertically–oriented, flat sheet membrane elements, DEMWAX employs the natural pressure differential that occurs at depths of more than 850 feet (260m) to overcome the osmotic and transmembrane pressures required to drive the process."
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Industry News
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SWMOA calls for papers for Vegas in February 2011
July 20, 2010 5:00 pmThe South West Membrane Operator Association has scheduled its 2011 Annual Symposium for Las Vegas, Nevada, on 7-9 February 2011.
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SCMA warming up for September conference
July 20, 2010 5:00 pmThe South Central Membrane Association (SCMA) is gearing up for its imminent 2010 Annual Conference & Membership Meeting, which will take place during 27-29 September 2010 on South Padre Island, Texas.
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Israel working on Gaza desalination plan - Lieberman
July 20, 2010 5:00 pmIsrael's foreign affairs minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said on 18 July 2010 that Israel was working on a plan to build desalination plants and water purification infrastructure, as well as power stations, in the Gaza Strip.
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Revised dates for IDA desalination energy conference
July 20, 2010 5:00 pmThe International Desalination Association (IDA) has rescheduled its conference on Desalination: An Energy Solution, which was to have taken place in California in September, to 2-3 November 2010 at the same venue, the Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa, Huntington Beach.
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Nitto Denko and Mitsubishi win Singapore MBR order
July 19, 2010 5:00 pmMicrofiltration (MF) membranes for Singapore's largest membrane bioreactor (MBR) plant at the Jurong Water Reclamation Plant are to be supplied by Nitto Denko/Hydranautics and Mitsubishi Rayon Co.
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Current desalination plants will last Australia until 2026, says WSAA
July 19, 2010 5:00 pm
The water provided by Australia's six major desalination plants, if they are upgraded to their full capacity, will be sufficient to meet additional urban water demand to 2026, even using the most aggressive population growth projections.
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Industry Interview - Dan McCarthy - From research to commissioning: how B&V has it all covered
July 29, 2010 10:00 amWith another prestigious water project opened in May in the shape of the 228,000 m /d Sembcorp NEWater Plant in Singapore, the list of references for major desalination and water reuse projects involving global engineers Black & Veatch in various capacities grows ever more quickly.
John Gould, chairman of Faversham House Group and the publisher of D&WR, took the opportunity of a recent meeting to interview B&V Water's president and CEO, Dan McCarthy.
This article first appeared in the May/June...
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Environmentalists challenge Cambria desalination test wells
July 19, 2010 5:00 pmEnvironmental group LandWatch San Luis Obispo County is challenging in the courts the decision of the California Coastal Commission to allow the US Army Corps of Engineers and other local agencies to construct test beach wells for the proposed Cambria desalination project.
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Consumption cut will delay next Queensland desalination plant
July 14, 2010 5:00 pmDesalination is probably the only viable option for the next major source of water in southeast Queensland, Australia. However, at current consumption rates, this may not be before 2027, natural resources minister Stephen Robertson said on 15 July 2010.
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New appointments for D&WR Editorial Board members
July 13, 2010 5:00 pmTwo members of the Editorial Board of Desalination & Water Reuse have taken up new appointments.
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AMTA/SEDA 2011 joint desalination conference set for Miami Beach
July 12, 2010 5:00 pmThe American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) will be holding its 2011 conference and exposition together with the Southeast Desalting Association in Miami Beach, Florida during 18-21 July 2011.
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Carlsbad water-purchase deal near to conclusion
July 12, 2010 5:00 pmThe water-purchase contract between San Diego County Water Authority and Poseidon Resources Inc relating to the Carlsbad desalination plant in southern California could be tied up by the end of July.
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Kurihara to lead Japanese search for cost-cutting desalination
July 12, 2010 5:00 pmThe Japanese Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program) has granted ¥ 2.924 billion (US$ 33 million) to the Mega-Ton Water System project to research and develop new technologies in the water supply industry.
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New Mexico city seeking 4 MGD desalination plant
July 12, 2010 5:00 pmThe city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA, is looking to use a 4 MGD (15,000 m³/d) desalination plant to provide a safe dependable supply from brackish water wells.
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New Pall membrane filter for semiconductor fabrication
July 12, 2010 5:00 pmA next-generation, highly asymmetric membrane technology for semiconductor fabrication that advances wet chemical filtration performance to a level of 10 nanometers and reduces energy costs was announced on 7 July 2010 by Pall Corporation.
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Saudi EDR plant to be retrofitted as RO
July 7, 2010 5:00 pmA project to retrofit the first stage of the existing electrodialysis-reversal plant at Quayiah Water
Treatment Plant in Saudi Arabia into a 2,500 m³/d reverse-osmosis unit has been won by
Technology Experts Co (TE) of Riyadh.
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Floating Saudi desalination barges relaunched
July 7, 2010 5:00 pmSaudi Arabia's two floating water desalination barges have been moved from Shuquaiq to Yanbu, and
the first was relaunched on 7 July 2010 by Fehied F Al-Shareef, governor of the Saline Water
Conversion Corporation (SWCC) and Engineer Nabil Azmaruli, general manager of the General
Directorate of Water in Al-Madina.
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KMS supplies first large-diameter SWRO system
July 29, 2010 10:00 am
The port facilities for Chile's Minera Esperanza copper/gold mine will soon be provided with drinking water from an innovative new seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) system supplied by Koch Membrane Systems (KMS). The system is the first full-scale large-diameter membrane RO system for seawater that KMS has developed.
The system uses KMS MegaMagnum high capacity seawater membranes, made from a unique thin-film composite...
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BEL Iberica gets ASME authorization
July 5, 2010 5:00 pmBEL Composite Iberica SL, the Spanish subsidiary of membrane pressure-vessel manufacturer BEL Group
Ltd announced on 6 July 2010 that it has recently been certified by the ASME Board with an 'RP'
Stamp certification.
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Singapore company wins UF reuse plant in UAE
July 5, 2010 5:00 pmBoustead Singapore's subsidiary Salcon has won an AED 55 million (US$ 5.6 million) contract to
design, engineer and construct a new ultrafiltration wastewater reuse plant.
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