May 12, 2011
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Water & Wastewater Newsletter May 12, 2011 |
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ACCIONA Agua will build and operate a desalination plant in Chile’s Atacama Desert
ACCIONA has won a contract from the CAP group to build and operate for 20 years a plant for the group`s mining operations in the Copiapo Valley (Atacama Region III). The plant will have an initial capacity of 200 liters per second (17 million liters a day) which could be stepped up to a maximum 600 l/s (52 million liters/day). ACCIONA Agua has been selected by Grupo CAP to design, build, bring into service and operate for 20 years a seawater desalination plant in the Copiapó Valley in Chile`s Atacama Region III. The project represents an investment of US$63.5 ... |
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Remote water and power provision
Purdue University researchers have developed an aluminium alloy that could be used in a new type of mobile technology to convert non-potable water into drinking water while also extracting hydrogen to generate electricity. Such a technology might be used to provide power and drinking water to villages and also for military operations, said professor of electrical and computer engineering Jerry Woodall. The alloy contains aluminium, gallium, indium and tin. Immersing the alloy in freshwater or saltwater causes a spontaneous reaction, turning the water into steam and generating hydrogen ... |
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