Desal Data News | India

Befesa completes performance test of Chennai desalination plant

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00

Befesa’s Carlos Cosin has confirmed to WDR that the performance test for the 100,000 m³/d (26.4 MGD) Minjur SWRO Plant in Chennai, India, has been completed. An official inauguration ceremony is scheduled for 28 July.

IVRCL Assets set to start Chennai desalination unit

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00

After a delay of almost a year, IVRCL Assets, a subsidiary of infrastructure major IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects Ltd, is set to commence commercial operations at its desalination plant in
Believed to be the first ever commercial…

Industrial plant turns to membranes

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00

Four months after naming Chembond as its joint venture partner in India, H2O Innovation has announced that it has been awarded a contract from one of India’s largest engineering and construction companies to supply two membrane systems. Two separate…

Trial run of Minjur desalination plant support facilities inaugurated

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00

Chennai Metrowater on Wednesday launched the trial run of the support infrastructure that it has created for the 100 million litres per day capacity desalination plant at Kattupalli, near
Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated the…

M'rashtra CM clears setting up of desalination plant in Mumbai

Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00

Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has approved the proposal to set up a desalination plant in Mumbai to reduce the acute shortage of drinking water. Chavan, who on Sunday visited the Rs 231.34-crore desalination plant set up by the Chennai Petroleum…

Coastal power plants to use NIOT tech

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00

The ministry of environment and forests has stepped in to promote a “cheaper” and more “eco-friendly” desalination technology developed by the Chennai-based National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) that was not finding any…

Deora keen on oil PSU hand in desalination unit

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00

Mumbai’s first desalination plant might be set up by an oil public sector unit, with Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora and Chief Minister Ashok Chavan exploring this
The two leaders, along with Congress MLA Amin Patel and…

Nemili desalination plant hits new roadblock

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00

The work on the Rs 670-crore Nemili desalination plant has hit a new roadblock with fishermen taking up cudgels against the project alleging that it would affect their livelihood and has vowed to oppose it tooth and
Although the district and…

India's BARC develops small solar RO and UF units

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00

Domestic and community-level reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination units have been developed for producing safe drinking water by Saly T Panicker at the Desalination Division of India’s Bhabha Atomic Research
Small and community-level…

Norit X-flow to supply pretreatment system to India's SWRO plant

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00

Norit X-Flow has been awarded the contract to supply a Seaguard UF pretreatment system for the 100,000 m³/d SWRO plant in Nemmeli, India. The plant is being constructed under a DBO contract by VA Tech Wabag and IDE Technologies for Chennai’s…

Minjur desalination plant to be ready by June

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00

The desalination plant in Minjur will be ready by June and the city will get 100 million litres of drinking water a day, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said in the Assembly on
He made this announcement during a discussion on demands…

Desalination Plants in Chennai

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00

The Government proposes to set up a string of desalination plants in Chennai and coastal South Tamil Nadu considering the serious water shortage faced by people of the area. Ministry of Earth Sciences is working on Low Temperature Thermal…

Chennai II desalination to have Norit UF pretreatment

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00

Norit X-Flow is to supply, install, commission and start up the ultrafiltration (UF) pretreatment package for the Nemmeli seawater reverse osmosis plant in Chennai, India. It will be the first advanced membrane desalination pretreatment system in…

Shivsu Canadian Clear Launches Cost Effective Specialized Desalination Plants

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00

The Chennai based Shivsu Canadian Clear International Ltd., an internationally acclaimed water technology solution provider, has come out with improved technology desalination plants that offer best answers to pure water needs at low cost and…

BMC, Barc to study desalination feasibility

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will form a committee with officials from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) to conduct a feasibility study on desalination as an option to end the city’s water
The civic body has tied up…