Company News: 2009
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., $0.50/m3. DXV's cost will ALWAYS be lower than on-shore, high-pressure desal because both technologies use the same filters. It's the method of holding the filters that differs."
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Water Desalinization Report - A new approach to Deep sea RO
August 18, 2008
"Using vertically–oriented, flat sheet membrane elements, DEMWAX employs the natural pressure differential that occurs at depths of more than 850 feet (260m) to overcome the osmotic and transmembrane pressures required to drive the process."
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US$ 6.25 million equity investment for Desalitech
May 16, 2012 5:00 pmReverse-osmosis (RO) innovator Desalitech Inc has secured an equity investment of
U$$ 6.25 million led by Liberation Capital LLC, which will be used for business
expansion and working capital.
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Papers called for IDA's 2013 World Congress
May 15, 2012 5:00 pmA call for papers was issued on 14 May 2012 by the International Desalination
Association (IDA) for its 2013 World Congress Desalination: A Promise for the Future.
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New website launched by BEL Composites
May 15, 2012 5:00 pmMembrane pressure-vessel supplier BEL Composite, a part of BEL Group Limited, announced on
14 May 2012 that it had launched an improved website.
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ALADYR conference in Antofagasta in October
May 15, 2012 5:00 pmChile's desalination association, La Asociación Latino Americana de Desalación y Reuso del Agua
(ALADYR), which was formed in 2010, is holding its third International Desalination Conference on
1‑2 October 2012.
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West Basin seeking powerplant site for desalination plant
May 14, 2012 5:00 pmTwo power companies are in talks with Southern California's West Basin Municipal Water District over
the 20 MGD (75,700 m³/d) desalination plant planned by the district.
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IPO in summer for China's H2O Solutions
May 14, 2012 5:00 pmShanghai-based H2O Solutions announced on 11 May 2012 that the company, which
specializes in nano-membrane purification and multi-charged plate desalination technologies, was
taking its stock public in the summer of 2012.
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NRDC report urges control and reuse of fracking wastewater
May 14, 2012 5:00 pmThe US Environmental Protection Agency and individual states should ban or more strictly regulate
the discharge of shale gas wastewater (SGW) from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to publicly owned
treatment works (POTWs). They should also update pollution control standards for centralised waste
treatment facilities (CWTs) that accept SGW.
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Fernandez to boost ACWA's PPP push in MENA
May 14, 2012 5:00 pmLeading Spanish economist Luis Fernandez has joined environmental solutions provider ACWA
Emirates as chief officer concessions for the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region to provide in-depth support for the company's drive into the public-private partnership (PPP) sector.
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Australian government cuts desalination funding
May 14, 2012 5:00 pmThe Australian government has cut its funding for the National Urban Water & Desalination Plan -
Water For The Future - by Aus$ 25.7 million
(US$ 25.7 million) in 2011-12 under the recently announced national budget.
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Abigroup to build Kooragang wastewater reuse plant
May 14, 2012 5:00 pmConstruction of the Kooragang Industrial Water Scheme (KIWS) in New South Wales, Australia, is to
be carried out by Abigroup under an Aus$ 40 million (US$ 40 million)
contract.
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Veolia's new anaerobic MBR uses X-Flow UF
May 13, 2012 5:00 pmAn anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) was introduced on 9 May 2012 by French water giant
Veolia.
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EIB assists Gaza desalination progress
May 13, 2012 5:00 pmThe desalination project for Gaza backed by the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) took a small step
forward at a meeting in Barcelona on 4 May 2012.
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Sydney Desalination Plant leased for US$ 2.3 billion
May 13, 2012 5:00 pmThe New South Wales state government in Australia accepted on 10 May 2012 a binding
offer for refinancing the Sydney Desalination Plant (SDP) from a consortium of Ontario Teachers'
Pension Plan (OTPP) and Hastings Funds Management.
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Morillon to direct MEDRC training
May 7, 2012 5:00 pm
Michel Morillon, former CEO and CTO of the 80,000 m³/d Sur seawater reverse osmosis desalination
plant project in Oman, has joined the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) as director
of training.
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Xylem launches open-channel UV system
May 7, 2012 5:00 pmAn open-channel ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system that uses a minimum of energy has been
launched by Xylem under its Wedeco brand.
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Azerbaijan beginning Caspian Sea desalination
May 7, 2012 5:00 pmAzerbaijan has begun a project for desalination of seawater from the Caspian Sea, a government
minister said on 4 May 2012.
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US$ 10.6 million grant for water-reuse schemes
May 7, 2012 5:00 pmThe US Bureau of Reclamation announced on 4 May 2012 the selection of seven projects in the Mid-Pacific Region to receive more than US$ 10.6 million in WaterSMART Title XVI water
recycling and reuse funding.
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Panglisch heads inge's research department
May 5, 2012 5:00 pm
Dr Ing Stefan Panglisch joined inge GmbH (now part of BASF) in Greifenberg in mid-April to head up
the research and development department.
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Membrane-distillation patent awarded to NJIT professor
May 5, 2012 5:00 pm
A researcher at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been awarded a patent for direct-contact and vacuum membrane distillation technology.
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Overview of Santa Cruz desalination project published
May 5, 2012 5:00 pmA new two-page factsheet on the proposed desalination project for the Californian City of Santa
Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District (SCWD) has been published by the agencies.
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