Construction on a desalination plant began yesterday for south China's city of Sansha, as part of a larger project that will also include a rainwater purification system. The project, which will be capable of processing 1,000 cubic meters of seawater daily, will supply residents on Yongxing Island, where the municipal government is seated, said a spokesman from the local economic planning body. The desalina ...

Sumitomo of Japan has won an order from the state-owned Oman Power and Water Procurement Co. to build a desalination plant in Oman with Malakoff Corp. Berhad of Malaysia and Cadagua SA of Spain. The plant, scheduled to start operations in September 2014, will supply water for daily use equivalent to the amount consumed by about 800,000 people, the Japanese trading company said in a statement today. The proj ...

VA Tech Wabag will commission the Rs 1,033-crore seawater desalination plant it is building for Chennai Metrowater by the month end, according to an authorised source. The 100-million-litre-a-day project nearing completion on the East Coast Road about 35 km to the South of Chennai weathered the impact of Cyclone Nilam earlier this week. The facility is unscathed except for some water logging and debris that ...

KSB (Germany) are planning to launch their new compact unit for reverse osmosis with seawater desalination in early 2013.Called the SALINO Pressure Center, the unit will consist of an axial piston pump and an axial piston motor, arranged on a common shaft. Driven by the diaphragm return flow, the axial piston motor transfers its power directly to the pump shaft. These means three functions will be fulfilled ...

Biothane (Netherlands), specialists in anaerobic technologies and a part of Veolia, have announced they have been awarded a contract in Indonesia to provide a food & beverage (F&B) manufacturer with a wastewater treatment plant. The solution offered is the Biothane UASB (Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket). The Biothane UASB is a solution aimed at treating highly concentrated effluents, which can be a ...

Vietnam was awarded $50 million in funds from the World Bank for wastewater treatment plant improvements to help curb pollution at its industrial parks. At least eight wastewater systems in industrial parks in Nam Dinh, Ha Nam, Dong Nai and BaRiaVungTau, four of the country’s most industrialized provinces, will be constructed with the funding. Industrial parks discharge as much as 1 million cubic meters of ...

The government of China’s Jiangxi Province has just released the 12th Five-Year New Energy Development Plan spanning 2011 to 2015. It reveals that the province plans to focus on the development of non-fossil energy sources including hydraulic, wind, solar, biomass and geothermal. Jiangxi province is home to rich resources 6.85 GW of hydropower reserves, accounting for approx 1% of China's total, including 5 ...

The Xayaburi hydropower project is on schedule to begin supplying electricity in 2019, as the Laotian government has given no written notice of its cancellation or postponement, said Norkun Sitthiphong, permanent secretary of the Thai Energy Ministry. The Xayaburi hydropower project is on schedule to begin supplying electricity in 2019, as the Laotian government has given no written notice of its cancellati ...

The Indonesian government has decided to reduce the amount that coal miners must sell in the domestic market this year by 18 percent due to lower consumption by power plants. Miners must allocate 67.3 million metric tons of coal under the so-called domestic market obligation, down from the previous requirement of 82.1 million tons, said Edi Prasodjo, the coal business director at the Energy and Mineral Reso ...

Consumers will have to pay twice as much for electricity by 2017 if power generation still relies on natural gas, and the options of nuclear or coal are not included in the National Energy Development Plan. To rectify this, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is revising its power development plan and will propose it to the government soon. The revised plan will increase the number of co ...