Desal Data News | Singapore

Singapore aims for 1 million m3/d of desal

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00

PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, has published its new vision for securing the country’s water resources over the next 50 years. The long-term plan was unveiled by Singapore’s deputy prime minister Teo Chee Hean at the Singapore…

Desal and NEWater capacity to increase

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00

PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, has unveiled its 50-year water plan on the first day of Singapore International Water Week (SIWW). In the plan, PUB said that it would increase its reliance on desalinated seawater from 10 percent of its…

New spiral wound EDI technology

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00

Dow Water & Process Solutions launched its new generation electrodeionization (EDI) module this week, at SIWW. The company says its new spiral wound module is an alternative to mixed bed demineralizer technology and can lower operating costs by up…

Membrane evaluation unit launched

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00

One of the most interesting new products debuting at SIWW is a bench-top instrument from Hyflux that allows users to evaluate and optimize the performance of various hollow fiber MF/UF membranes. The Membrane Evaluation System (MES) is furnished…

Other SIWW Announcements

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00

Toray Industries held inauguration ceremonies for the Toray Singapore Water Research Center at its booth at the Singapore International Water Week this Tuesday. The Center, which was established in August 2009, will enhance ongoing joint research…

GE Water appoints Koh Wai Keat as Commercial leader for engineered systems in ASEAN

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00

Koh Wai Keat, formerly with Veolia Water, has been appointed GE Power & Water’s commercial leader for engineered systems in ASEAN, Japan and Korea. He is based in Singapore and can be contacted at WaiKeat.Koh@ge.com.

Tender for desalination plant

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00

National water agency PUB is calling an open tender for the second and largest desalination plant to be built at
To be completed by 2013, the plant will add another 318,500 cubic metres of desalinated water a day to Singapore’s water…

Singapore funds more desalination research

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00

Desalination membrane improvements and a combined heating, cooling and desalination system are among six research proposals granted about Sing$ 1 million (US$ 710,000) in research funding on 30 June 2010 by Singapore’s Environment & Water Industry…

Singapore tenders 318,500 m³/d SWRO desalination plant

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00

A tender for a 70 MIGD (318,500 m³/d) desalination plant to be built at Tuas, Singapore, was launched on 30 June 2010 by the country’s national water agency
This is the second and largest municipal desalination plant to be built in Singapore…

Solar membrane distillation to be tested

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00

During a Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) workshop today, Memsys Clearwater Distribution director Florian Bollen announced that the company would be testing its solar-driven membrane distillation system at PUB’s Marina
The…

Membrane distillation product launched

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00

After spending five years developing and refining its technology in a small Bavarian village near Munich, Germany, Singapore-based memsys Clearwater is set to introduce a novel membrane distillation
First developed more than 45 years ago…

Landmark Project in Singapore

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00

The SingSpring Desalination Plant at Tuas is Singapore’s first seawater desalination plant and it meets some 10% of the nation’s water needs, supplying some 136,380 m³ of potable water per day. The plant adopts reverse osmosis technology that uses…

CitySpring Infrastructure earns $4.2million from Tuas SWRO plant

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00

CitySpring Infrastructure Trust, 70 percent owner of the 136,380 m³/d (36 MGD) SingSpring SWRO plant in Tuas, Singapore, said the plant had earnings of $4.2 million in the last fiscal quarter, up 5 percent from a year ago. Under a 20-year water…

Adil Dhalla appointed at NUS-GE Singapore

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00

GE Power & Water has announced the appointment of Adil Dhalla, the former technical director of the company’s polymer science and technology team in Bangalore, India, as the new co-chair and director for the NUS-GE Singapore Water Technology…

Another exercise in efficiency

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00

In less than one month, Singapore Public Utilities Board (PUB) has issued a request for proposals (RFP), received bids and awarded a consultancy services contract for a new 320,000 m³/d (84.5 MGD) seawater RO facility. The proposed plant is to be…