4 The Quarterly December 2016 Water. desalination + reuse
The
Quarterly
IDA unveils winners of its inaugural Water Reuse and Conservation
Awards, and a new water reuse body springs up in Europe
UNITED KINGDOM
Father of desal
commemorated
The pioneer of desalination,
French chemist Dr Alphonse
Normandy, was honoured
with a commemorative
blue plaque on the home
in London, UK, where he
lived and worked from 1850
to 1859, in a ceremony in
September.
The Mayor of the London
borough of Camden (right,
above), unveiled the plaque
on Judd Street, with help from
(right to le ) Normandy's
great, great, great grandson
Niki Panourgias, IDA
president Emilio Gabbrielli,
and IDA lifetime achiever
Dr Jim Birkett. The plaque
was sponsored by IDA to
remember Normandy, who
invented the fi rst method for
desalting seawater.
3 years
Dow Water & Process
Solutions will demonstrate
a new treatment for
petrochemical wastewater at
its ethylene cracker facility in
Tarragona, Spain, from June
2017. The three-year project
is a partnership between
Dow, Veolia, and three non-
profi ts that aims to decrease
the environmental impact of
the petrochemical industry.
The system to be tested
combines physicochemical
pre-treatment, moving
bed biofi lm reactor,
ultrafi ltration, reverse
osmosis, and ion exchange
resins. It will use Veolia's
Actifl o technology, and
DOW IntegraFlux
ultrafi ltration
modules.
