Evoqua Water Technologies, a leader in water and wastewater treatment products, systems and services for industrial, marine and municipal customers, has introduced the Vantage M41 Reverse Osmosis (RO) System for industrial applications to Asia. The energy and space efficient Vantage M41 is suitable for production of process ingredient water, rinse water, food ingredient water, safe drinking water, boiler fe ...

Yesterday evening Altaeros Energies, a Somerville-based wind power company announced that it has raised $7 million in new funding. The new funding comes from Japan-based telecommunications company SoftBank, a telecommunications giant which is the parent company of Sprint. SoftBank also owns the largest stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Altaeros, which was founded in 2010 at MIT, used high altitude winds t ...

Hanwha SolarOne is set to build a new solar photovoltaic module factory in South Korea. The company will invest $12 million in the facility which will have an annual manufacturing capacity of 230 megawatts of solar modules. The facility is scheduled to begin production by the second quarter of 2015. Hanwha SolarOne will hire around 200 new employees to work in the facility, including research and developmen ...

ABB has designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned a 1.2MV circuit breaker--the highest AC voltage level in the world--at the national test station constructed by the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), India's central transmission utility, at Bina, Madhya Pradesh. Once the ultrahigh-voltage switchgear is fully operational, it will have a switching capacity of 10.4GW--a switch capable o ...

Clean water is in short supply in Singapore and therefore innovative thinking is necessary, as the city-state ensures its access to the scarce resource. Grundfos has received a good 1.2 million euro to sophisticate a brand new technology in which the waste water is treated through sludge. The cleansed water can help ease the strain on the water resources in the area. At the beginning of next year, Grundfos ...

On the 1st of November 2014, Bangladesh suffered an electricity blackout that lasted 10 hours, making it one of the worst power failures in the country’s history. Although the current government has made significant improvements in the generation of electricity in recent years, which has increased from 4,130 MW in 2007 to 8,525 MW in 2013 , this was the fourth blackout and load shedding is still a reality w ...

Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation says that it is interested in developing a nuclear power plant (PLTN) project in Indonesia in the future. “We have met with officials from BATAN [National Nuclear Energy Agency] for this partnership,” Russian Federation senior trade expert representative Sergey Kukushkin said in Jakarta on Thursday as quoted by kontan.co.id. He said that places like Batam, Ba ...

IT IS a thrill trekking beside the upper Marsyangdi river in northern Nepal. On view are spectacular waterfalls and cliffs, snowy Himalayan peaks, exotic birds and butterflies. But just where tourists and villagers delight in nature, hydropower engineers and economists have long been frustrated; in such torrents they see an opportunity that for too long has been allowed to drain away. Himalayan rivers, fed ...

As the $26 billion water and wastewater treatment chemicals market shifts to Asia, international companies are re-positioning to maintain share and offset some of the advantages created for local Asian companies. These developments are reported in McIlvaine Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market. The 2015 revenues will increase to $26.4 billion of which more than 50 percent will be generated ...

In the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key, Envision Energy International signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with Infratil and Sensing City to build Smart Infrastructure projects in New Zealand and Asia. This document is one of the key bilateral agreements signed during Xi’s first state visit to the country, chartering the course for the future deve ...