Water. desalination + reuse

RESEARCH May-June 2014 | Desalination & Water Reuse | 37 | Desalination roadmap available to aid researchers Don't Compromise. Learn more: www.desalitech.com info@desalitech.com Next generation water treatment is here: ReFlex™ Reverse Osmosis featuring CCD™ technology. The industry has gotten used to compromises with RO: excess brine waste, too much energy consumption and not enough flexibility. Those days are over. ReFlex™ RO systems are built with standard components in a smart yet simple new way, reducing brine waste and energy use while increasing flexibility and reliability. Our products are saving costs in a multitude of industrial, agricultural and water reuse applications. Join us in changing the way the world treats water. The German non-profit organization Deutsche Meerwasser Entsalzung (DME) is to make available the results of the first two-year phase of its Global Desalination Roadmap project (GDR). DME set up a multinational network of professionals from the academic and business field to structure and execute the first phase of the GDR. More than 230,000 desalination publications since 1985 have been screened and reviewed, in particular international patents and science reports in English, Chinese and German languages. DME says that the data collection is a unique and up-to-date database of "unsurpassed dimension" enabling historic and regional clustering by desalination technology as well as identification of the major international innovation centers in desalination worldwide. Interested organizations have been invited to pre-register via dme-news@ dme-gmbh.de and request a printed version. MWH to lead WateReuse industrial reuse investigation The WateReuse Research Foundation has awarded a project to MWH Global, to investigate the onsite industrial water reuse sector. The Drivers, successes, challenges and opportunities for onsite industrial water reuse project seeks to develop a roadmap that will support the expansion of onsite industrial water reuse practices, which are recognized as a key component of industrial water footprint reduction. This study will bring together key players from a variety of industrial sectors in order to: • Understand the current state of industrial water reuse, including best practices, • Assess opportunities for future expansion of reuse applications • Identify potential impediments that hinder the growth of reuse practices, • Identify economic, technological or regulatory drivers that could enhance water reuse development. For this project, MWH will have many partners and participants from municipal, governmental and industrial sectors in the US and overseas. The study participants will share information about current and future water recycling practices in their sector, as well as insight into the research needs, necessary business cases and implementation constraints and barriers of their industrial sector classification. Dr Joseph Jacangelo, director of the Research Group at MWH, stated: "Today, we see many industries requiring substantial quantities of water to support their production processes and the promotion of environmental stewardship practices that reduce corporate water footprints can mitigate business risks considerably. This is why wastewater recovery and reuse is crucial to address water and energy scarcity issues". The Research Group at MWH is a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, engineers and technicians specializing in civil, chemical and environmental engineering, microbiology, chemistry, and environmental sciences.

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