Desalination
First desalinated water produced from Adelaide plant
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 14:30 Written by SA Water
The first desalinated water has been produced from the Adelaide Desalination Plant, signalling a historic milestone for the $1.83 billion project.
Minister for Water Paul Caica today visited the plant to taste, for the first time, the pure desalinated water now being produced from the reverse osmosis filtration system.
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The intake tunnel at the 83 billion Adelaide Desalination Project has been flooded with seawater, connecting ocean and land for the first time and signalling a major milestone for one of the State’s biggest infrastructure projects.
Minister for Water Paul Caica today toured the desal plant to inspect the intake…
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Rapidly increasing populations are also placing pressure on existing water sources, forcing governments to turn to inter alia desalination to provide additional water supplies when existing sources are fully extended. There is also potential for desalination to process already treated wastewater, normally returned to the environment, to a higher quality…
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Chlorination, one of the most commonly used disinfection methods, plays a vital role in advanced wastewater treatment applications. There are a number of methods to achieve chlorination, including chlorine gas, commercial sodium hypochlorite and on-site generated sodium hypochlorite.
The safety of chlorine gas has come under increased scrutiny worldwide in…
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The ISD unit offers significant advantages over traditional bore systems, and it’s all thanks to Mother Nature.
In a world-first, the ISD unit is totally submersed within the borehole, so the entire filtration process occurs underground which delivers a significant energy saving to the user. The ISD process is chemical…
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Increasing efficiencies and lowering energy costs for water utilities
Sunday, 10 April 2011 21:31 Written by Schneider Electric
Energy management represents five per cent of investment in water infrastructure, but makes up 30 per cent or more of the operating cost for most water utilities. In addition, water networks and treatment plants have a long life cycle and over a plant’s life, 70 per cent of the carbon…
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Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWithin the space of a decade, Australia will have created almost 500 billion litres (GL) of new annual urban water supply, thanks to the ‘miracle’ of seawater desalination. By 2013, all coastal capital cities, with the…
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