Siemens Energy Service has been awarded long-term contracts for Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (DEWA) newest power station in operation, the Jebel Ali M-Station. The facility is a 2,000 megawatt (MW) combined-cycle power plant and a 140 MIGD (million imperial gallons per day) desalination plant and is located in the United Arab Emirates - Dubai. The power station began commercial operation in 2012 ...

THE Newman Government in Australia cannot find any customers for its drought-shielding water infrastructure because manufactured water is not being discounted for fear of political backlash. Industrial customers have no incentive to buy plant water because they would have to build their own pipelines and have no expectation of a price break. All southeast Queensland residents are currently paying higher pri ...

The UAE's water and energy security will receive a major boost if the desalination plants can be linked to nuclear power. Nuclear desalination is a well-known technology and the number of plants currently operating across the world strongly indicates the advantage, according to Dr. Youssef Shatilla, Dean of Academic Programs, and Professor - Mechanical Engineering, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology ...

US-based water technology provider Xylem today said it has bagged an order to develop wastewater treatment and recycling system for the Mumbai metro rail project. The system will cater to the entire wastewater treatment needs of the metro project. It incorporates a 1.2 million litre capacity sewage treatment plant with wastewater recycling capabilities, the company said in a statement here. Value of the con ...

Three water-reuse projects for oilfields in China that use Pentair X-Flow ultrafiltration (UF) membrane technology have been commissioned recently. Produced-water treatment systems that incorporate X- Flow membrane technology, followed by either reverse osmosis or ion exchange, offer the opportunity to produce low-salinity reinjection water for enhanced oil recovery. This lower salinity water can have a pos ...

International Finance Corp., a lending arm of the World Bank, is helping fight a water shortage problem in China with its first investment in the country’s desalination sector. The IFC has invested $12 million in Aqualyng Holding AS and the Norwegian company will use the funds to build desalination plants in areas of China experiencing water scarcity. “Our investment in Aqualyng underscores our commitment t ...

IBM has unveiled a water-cooled microchip that produces solar energy at greater efficiencies than most cells and the waste water can be used to power desalination facilities. This is an extension of technology currently used in Zurich to cool microchips in their computers. The Zurich-based SuperMUC computer contains the microchips, and when water travels through them, it carries away heat. This heat is used ...

The State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China has issued a Notification on Grant of Patent Right to Aquaporin A/S's patent application titled Membrane For Filtering Of Water, the company announced on 11 September 2012. This is Aquaporin's first Chinese patent application which has proceeded to grant in preparation for the Danish company's entry on the huge Chinese market. A number ...

Between now and 2030, China will be adding as much new power capacity as the US, UK, and Australia combined use today, according to calculations from HSBC. That is a staggering amount. But there is a catch: Generating electricity requires water, and Chinese supplies are increasingly running short. Whether it is water used to cool nuclear power stations, in coal-washing, steam turbines, or solar panel factor ...

A 200 m³/d desalination facility has been donated to An Binh Island in Vietnam by Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd of South Korea. A ceremony on 31 August 2012 on the island in Ly Son prefecture was attended by 300 people including several Vietnamese central government officials. The Doosan facility includes two seawater reverse-osmosis units, two generators, which will provide the island w ...