Qurayyat Desalination SAOC, a subsidiary of Hyflux, has secured non-recourse finance of $185 million for a seawater RO plant in Qurayyat, Oman.
Spiral scoops innovation award for its ‘disruptive’ automatic self-cleaning filter
Spiral Water has picked up an Innovation Award from BlueTech Research for its automatic self-cleaning water filter, a “disruptive” new filter technology according to Spiral chief executive Ashwin Gulati.
Borehole pump
Goulds Water Technology has introduced the e-GS 4-inch high-capacity borehole pump, specifically designed for use in 4-inch and larger wells.
Plug valves
The Flo-E-Centric® plug valves from Flomatic Corporation are round-port eccentric plug valves designed in compliance with ANSI/AWWA C517-09.
Flow meter with Modbus capabilities
Sparling Instruments has begun production on a Modbus-capable version of its TigermagEP™ electromagnetic flow meter.
HDPE pipe-joining system
Victaulic’s Refuse-to-Fuse™ Joining System for HDPE pipe enables the installation of HDPE pipe up to 10 times faster than fusing while meeting or exceeding the performance capabilities of fused joints.
US to take global lead on 5G spectrum
US telecoms commission, the FCC will decide next month (14 July) on which frequency bands in the radio spectrum will be used for 5G in the US. After considering spectrum population from low bands below 2.4GHz through mid-range Citizens Broadband Radio service in the 3.5GHz band it seems the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will go …
FTDI Chip adds to support for USB implementation
FTDI Chip has introduced two new board level products and a new IC to support engineers with comprehensive support when implementing USB into their embedded systems. The UMFTPD3A programmer module is designed specifically for use with the company’s development hardware and ICs containing either internal one-time programmable (OTP) memory or eFUSE logic (which are both …
Comment: Risks of buying off the internet
As purchases are increasingly made via the internet, never before has the packaging of electronic products and components, and their successful delivery through the supply chain, played such an important role in brand loyalty, writes Jean-Louis Evans of TÜV SÜD Product Service. As the delivery environment can be quite harsh, if a product or its packaging …
Enter the 1,000 core processor chip
KiloCore is a thousand core processor whose 621 million transistors execute 1.78 trillion instructions per second. Designed with an emphasis on low power operation by engineers at the University of California, the chip was fabricated by IBM on 32nm CMOS, and was revealed at the Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu. “To the best of …