US-based water company AquaVenture has reported revenue growth of 14 per cent to $114 million in year ended 31 December 2016.

Desalination plant developer Poseidon Water received an apparent boost in January, when its proposed Huntington Beach, Orange County, desalination plant turned up on a list of infrastructure projects favoured by the new US president Donald Trump.

The untreated sewage entered a creek that feeds the Cedar River in Westside Jacksonville Monday night.

The Janey Ensminger Act of 2017 is named in honor of retired Marine Jerry Ensminger’s daughter, who was born on base and died from leukemia after being exposed to the water.

 

Local water districts recognized in 80th Annual Louisiana Conference on Water Supply, Sewerage, and Industrial Wastes, Inc.

 

The company and California Water Service have signed a system supply contract valued at $13.2 million.

Helix Semiconductors is sampling a two-chip set with a  conversion efficiency of more than 95% when converting AC mains voltage to 5VDC — especially at light load, no load or standby operating conditions. At full loads, the eMpower HS100 enables efficiency greater than 93%. The industry has set a target for power consumed by electronic …

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Hynix is in talks with Japanese investors about a plan to bid for Toshiba’s memory business, reports the Korea Economic Daily. Toshiba is said to value the business at $13 billion. A preliminary bid from Hynix bid is expected sometime today. A number of industry leaders like Micron, TSMC, Western Digital, Foxconn, Kingston and others …

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Fidus Power has introduced a range of single output, open frame AC-DC 40W power supplies. Convection cooled the power supplies, which measure only 76.2 x 38.1 x 23.5mm, have a peak rating of 50W for 60s. The range consists of seven different models from 5 to 48Vdc output. The operating temperature range is 0 – …

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Recent advances in polymer-cathode technology and improvements in tightening the tantalum supply-chain are allowing more designers to choose polymer tantalum capacitors as alternatives to traditional solid tantalum capacitors, writes Roger Tall In specifying the ideal capacitor most designers would start with high volumetric efficiency and then consider miniaturised packages and capacitance stability over applied voltage, …

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