MISCOwater now has exclusive rights to sell Mazzei systems to the municipal water and wastewater markets in five states.

 

South Africa’s electricity utility Eskom is to install a desalination unit at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, as water shortages in Cape Town hit crisis levels, reports South Africa’s News24.com.

Aquabaero Environment Protection LTD to use company’s patented NanoClear™ water purification system in desal projects.

 

A renewables-fuelled desalination project aiming to produce water for $1/m3 is to be jointly developed by Qatar and Sweden, reports The Peninsular.

Imagination Technologies has agreed a deal to sell its SoC and software design business to UK-based design firm Sondrel. Design engineers employed in the IMGworks division will join with Sondrel’s existing engineering consultancy to create a combined IC design capability comprising more than 250 highly skilled employees. Imagination is in the middle of a major …

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Imec has made a prototype implantable chip that gives patients more intuitive control over their arm prosthetics. The thin-silicon chip is a world’s first for electrode density and was developed in collaboration with researchers at the University of Florida, as part of the IMPRESS project funded by the DARPA’s HAPTIX program to create a closed-loop system …

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Samsung is rolling out its Samsung Pay mobile payments system in the UK, following the launch of the Galaxy S8 and S8+.

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Microsemi has announced at PCIM exhibition in Nuremberg that its fast recovery DQ diode product family is now AEC-Q101 qualified for use in the automotive market. They are designed to offer higher switching speeds and lower switching loss compared to traditional diodes used as rectifiers in AC-DC/DC-DC converters. Likely automotive applications may include high frequency …

Read full article: PCIM: Fast charger tech for electric vehicles

LEM has unveiled at PCIM in Nuremberg a new design of current transducer which is notable for its high accuracy and low noise for non-intrusive and isolated measurement of DC, AC and pulsed nominal current of 2000A. The 2000-S model transducer also has an extended operating temperature range of -40 to +85°C. Specified accuracy with …

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At the PCIM exhibition taking place in Nuremberg this week, Diodes has introduced a range of gate drivers that feature a floating high-side driver to simplify the switching of two N-channel mosfets or two IGBTs in a half-bridge configuration. Designed for motor control and power supply applications that require AC and DC motor control boards …

Read full article: PCIM: half-bridge device has high and low side mosfet drivers