Filtration specialist Amiad has reported a revenue decline of 11.1 per cent to $105.6 million in the year to end-December 2016, owing partly to drought in California impacting on its largest segment, Irrigation.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has signed an EPC contract with Saline Water Conversion Corporation of Saudi Arabia to build a 400,000 m3/d seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant in Shuaibah.

Join Tom Freyberg for a wrap of the latest desalination news from around the world.

 

SUCCESSFUL tests conducted by Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd. on pulse-code-modulated speech in Madrid now show the way to an increase in capacity of existing telephone networks. So, 57 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’d edition of December 14th 1960. The story continues: These tests are with a system developed by engineers of …

Read full article: PCM Shows Way To Increase Telephone Network Capacity

Silicon Valley’s favourite form of recruitment – the H-1B visa for foreigners – could soon become a less productive source of cheap engineering talent. Yesterday, the US Department of Homeland Security said it would look more carefully at H-1B applications to “determine whether H-1B dependent employers are evading their obligation to make a good faith …

Read full article: US cracking down on H-1B visas

As reverse-osmosis desalination membranes already exist, I was keen to hear what was new about the Manchester University announcement that its researchers had made a graphene desalination membrane. Graphene oxide has been mooted as a filtering material, but it cannot filter out small molecules like dissolved sodium chloride because the ‘holes’ are too big – …

Read full article: Updated: Manchester graphene desalination filter

Osram has announced a ‘full white’ version of its SplitStar S32 multi-chip led for high-luminance spotlights, with tunable colour temp from 2,700 to 7,000K and “consistently high colour rendering index”, claimed the firm. It includes red, green, blue and amber leds, and is offered alongside a ‘cold white’ that can deliver 20,000 lm, and an RGBW …

Read full article: Osram shows high-power ‘full white’ and laser-based spotlights

With two years of hard negotiation about to begin, what will the tech sector be hoping the government can achieve from its Brexit deal? The main thing will be continuing access to Europe’s single market for digital products and services. But this also means being able to recruit much needed skills in engineering and science. …

Read full article: Comment: Hard Brexit must be well managed

Since graphene’s discovery 13 years ago, people have struggled to come up with transformational applications for the material, but now Manchester University researchers have come up with an application for graphene which could be a boon for mankind. Graphene oxide, which is readily-fabricated, can be used to purify water. A team led by Dr Rahul …

Read full article: Transformational Use Found For Graphene

French research lab Leti, has announced a European and South Korean project intended “to deliver the world’s first fully integrated and operational 5G prototype in conjunction with the 2018 Winter Olympics”. “Showcasing key enabling technologies for a proof-of-concept environment at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea, will allow maximum visibility for the available technology …

Read full article: 5G demo at the 2018 Winter Olympics