package desalination Articles
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High purity boiler make-up water for esso thailand
The Facility The Esso refinery is located in Sriracha, Thailand approximately 50 miles south of Bangkok. Due to increased refinery demands, Esso embarked on a facility expansion to more than double the refinery’s production capacity. The Problem The expansion plan required additional high purity water to be used for boiler make-up. With the existing desalination units in disrepair, Esso ...
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Sydney’s White Elephant Desalination Plant
An extensive pipeline to deliver fresh water from Sydney’s desalination plant at Kurnell accounted for a significant part of the project’s billion-dollar price tag. In Australia, Sydney’s giant desalination plant may be more a burden than a boon Around the turn of the century, Australia — particularly southern Australia — suffered what many consider to be the ...
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Drought hits capital of Philippines
Manila, with a population that has doubled since 1985, has no fallback as monsoon fails to materialize On July 11, the reservoir of the hydroelectric Angat Dam, which supplies Manila and other nearby areas with water, reached the critically low level of 160 m. Its normal minimum operating level is 180 m, and its normal high water level is 210 m. In the early part of March, water taps began to ...
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Water and Developing Island States
The United Nation’s SAMOA Pathway lays out goals for critical water management issues Islands share many challenges to development. They tend to be economically and geographic isolated, environmentally fragile, plagued with high energy and transportation costs, limited in resources, and vulnerable to weather and climate disasters. At the 1991 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the United ...
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Philippine Tourism Spurs Water Crises
Boracay Island’s beautiful white beaches drew tourism that damaged the island’s ecology to the point that Philippine President Duterte shut down the island for a six-month cleanup. Steep increase in island visitors has freshwater and wastewater infrastructures unable to keep up Tourism in the Philippines has burgeoned since 1990, when only a million tourists visited the nation. By ...
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Desalination in the Caribbean
Islands have long relied on the process to supplement natural water supplies More than 7,000 islands of the Caribbean Archipelago are scattered over a million-square-mile area between North and South America. Some smaller islands are naturally dry, but some volcanic islands — like Grenada and St. Lucia — are well forested and provide significant water catchment to support spring ...
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Desalination in the Caribbean
On Aruba and some other Caribbean islands, a lack of rainfall makes desalination a logical choice for ensuring potable water supplies. Islands have long relied on the process to supplement natural water supplies More than 7,000 islands of the Caribbean Archipelago are scattered over a million-square-mile area between North and South America. Some smaller islands are naturally dry, but ...
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Jamaica Weighs Decentralized Desalination
With a growing population and infrastructure woes, existing freshwater resources must be supplemented Jamaica was partially named for its water. Derived from a Taino word “Xaymaca,” Jamaica is literally the “land of wood and water.” But, like many regions gifted with rich water resources, the human population’s water requirements are quickly outgrowing the ...
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Desalination Provides Drinking Water for Egypt’s Nile Delta
Contracted $20 million, 40,000 m3/d plant will serve New Mansoura development Along the coast of Egypt’s Nile Delta, construction of the remarkable, visionary city of New Mansoura was decreed in 2017. Its design, which includes a vine-like peninsula with outcroppings, is reminiscent of Dubai’s Palm Islands, World, and Universe artificial archipelago developments. The first phase of ...
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A New Generation of Water and Wastewater Treatment for Workforce Housing
Modular solutions like Fluence’s Aspiral and NIROBOX allow treatment to move along with work sites The temporary workforce housing market has come a long way. Back in the early 1900s, construction workers at the Hoover Dam lived in an infamous shantytown of tents, cardboard boxes, and tin scraps. Nowadays, workers at oil and gas, construction, infrastructure, and mining sites expect ...
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Desalination in Mining
With improvements in technology, desalination is becoming more viable both to provide source water and to treat process water Water access is a problem that must be overcome when starting or enlarging any mining project, and a lack of sufficient water in arid regions can be a deal-killer. Another water problem associated with mining (especially coal mining) is that wastewater is often too saline ...
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The Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus
The water-energy-food security nexus recognizes the complex interplay among agriculture, power generation, and drinking water. Taking an integrated approach to resource management is used to address ‘vicious cycle of fragility’ Fresh water is a basic human need that’s enmeshed in every aspect of human existence, not just as drinking water. Large quantities of fresh water are ...
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Smart Packaged Treatment Key to Decentralization
Scalable, efficient Smart Packaged solutions bring treatment to exactly where it’s needed. Because of technical innovations, advanced wastewater treatment and desalination can be delivered to exactly where they’re needed The idea of decentralized wastewater treatment is nothing new if you think about it. Consider septic tanks in rural areas. Small-scale desalination was even ...
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Lessons Learned from Cape Town’s Day Zero Water Crisis
Climate change a major factor, but waste, infrastructure problems, and planning must be examined In early 2018, three years into an unprecedented drought, the South African city of Cape Town found itself facing the possibility that its water taps might simply run dry. Day Zero, the exact day on which that was predicted to happen, varied, but it was generally placed in March or April. The crisis ...
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