Oman has unveiled a vision for the next phase of developing its independent water supply, with proposals for a new 100,000 m3/d desalination plant for which initial steps in procurement could begin this year.
Rajasthan boosts water supplies with three major reuse projects across 11 cities
SPML Infra and Tata Projects have won three contracts worth a total of INR 1,275 crores ($189 million) to supply sewerage and wastewater reuse systems to 11 cities in Rajasthan, India.
Acciona enters the Philippines with €90m reverse osmosis drinking water plant
Spanish water company Acciona Agua has secured its first project in the Philippines as part of a strategy to grow in South East Asia…
Pond Slime To Cure Heart Disease
Green slime from a stagnant pond may hold the answer to increased production of certain chemicals. So, 55 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 11th 1961 The story continues: The green matter, Chlorella, is a simple micro-organism, easy to grow in the laboratory. Chlorella produces a range of unsaturated acids …
Imec develops wireless EEG headset
Imec and Nihon Kohden have developed a wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring device for clinical applications. Imec partnered with Holst Centre and Nihon Kohden to design and develop the headset to monitor Emergency Room (ER) and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients. A systematic approach was used to tailor electronics design, circuit design and mechanical design to …
A Tragedy
If anyone wanted to know why the UK has few major tech companies we’ve had a great explanation this week. ARM was built by decent men – Robin Saxby, Hermann Hauser, Warren East and others of that ilk. It succeeded because of trust. ARM’s customers trusted these men to deliver microprocessors on an impartial basis …
Plextek unveils phased array GaN MMIC reference design
Cambridge design house Plextek RFI has announced a reference design for a GaN power amplifier (PA) MMIC for use in X-band active phased array radars. “Active phased arrays require numerous PAs,” said Liam Devlin, CEO of Plextek RFI. “Our design has a die size of 1.5 x 2mm, which means around 2,300 can be fabricated …
UK and French team up for smallest avionics computer
Essex-based e2v and French design firm Adeneo are to develop a pocket-sized avionics computer weighing under 300g. e2v is providing the processing expertise in the form of QT10A which combines an NXP QorIQ T1040 processor (four 64bit e5500 1.4GHz power architecture cores ) with 1Gbyte DDR3L memory on a custom substrate – it is the first product family called Qormino. …
Surrey firm sells satellite to Honeywell
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has signed a contract with Honeywell to supply a satellite to demonstrate the two-way VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) payload for the exactEarth maritime satellite constellation. Called the Vesta satellite, the deal is part of a memorandum of understanding Honeywell Aerospace and the UK Space Agency. It is a configuration of the SSTL-12 satellite …
TDK Lambda sponsors STEM award for kids
Devon-based TDK-Lambda UK helped bring electronics engineering to life for children and young adults at this year’s Big Bang Fair South West. Held at Exeter University, the one-day event attracted 1,800 students looking into careers in a science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) related subjects. “Many local businesses participated in the event,” said Anne Sutton, Training …