Oman Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) has issued two tenders for desalination plants up to 10,000 m3/d in remote locations that are off the main water network, reports Oman Observer.

Two California projects will split the award.

Chennai Metrowater has extended the bidding deadline for its desalination plant project to September 15, reports Times of India.

Peru is to step up investment in potable water and sanitation projects in the coming year, reports BN Americas.

Poseidon’s Huntington Beach desalination plant project has passed a milestone in permitting after renewing and amending its ocean discharge permit.

The Nasdaq Helsinki-listed global engineering firm Poyry has won the owner’s engineer services contract for Shoaiba 4 desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.

If you are a novice to rotary encoders for human-machine interface, there is a potential pit-fall. Otherwise called quadrature encoders, they deliver two-bit gray-scale binary on rotation, with the phases of the two square-waves at 90° – hence quadrature. Being Gray, it is posible to determine which direction the shaft is being rotated by looking …

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Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, has announced three miniature TVS diodes.

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Western Digital has offered to withdraw from the bidding for Toshiba in return for a better deal in its existing jv arrangements, reports Reuters. The move also means, presumably, that WD will drop its legal objections to the sale to anyone else. WD had argued that its jv deal gave it the legal right to …

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A smart meter wireless comms device that supports both Sigfox and IEEE802.15.4k radio standards has been introduced by Lapis Semiconductor, part of the Rohm Group. Designated the ML7404, the chip will be supplied with the protocol stack for IEEE802.15.4k as open-source from partner stack vendors. Hardware BPSK modulation reduces load on the host microcontroller. The …

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