An operating agreement for a proposed desalination plant at Tianjin, the largest port city in northern China, was signed on November 8, 2016, by Xianda Seawater Resources Company of Malaysia, and Tianjin Administrative Commission.

Portage, Ind., steel mill saves $210,000 annually

Swiss technology and services company Sulzer is to provide a package of 49 pumping units to the new 250,000 m3/d desalination plant in Sohar, Oman.

Desalination capacity of 3.7 million m3/d was added globally in the year to June 30, 2016, representing a 16 per cent rise on 3.2 million m3/d of new capacity added the previous year.

The International Desalination Association (IDA) has extended the deadline for submitting abstracts for consideration in the technical programme for the 2017 IDA World Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new deadline is 11:59pm (EDT) next Tuesday, November 15, 2016.

The news that GE wants to sell its Water & Process Technologies business sent a ripple of surprise through the global desalination industry last week, with many at first asking: “Why?”

The EPA’s administrative order requires the tribe and Tribal Utility Authority to make improvements at their facilities throughout the reservations by September 30, 2018. 

US global science and technology company Danaher Corporation has been suggested as a potential buy for GE’s water business…

SCS Engineers was selected to provide on-call services for capital improvement projects at the Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant.

Texas Instruments has introduced what it claims are the industry’s first precision nano-power op amps. LPV811 consumes 450nA (typ) and offers 370µV (max, +/-60μV typ) offset, while offset in the dual LPV812 is 300µV. If more offset can be tolerated, there are even lower current versions – see below. The op-amp family is aimed at …

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