Archive for category Water Purifiers

Nano-structured Teabags Make Water Purifying Simpler Than Ever

Posted by Ovidiu in Water Purifiers on August 18, 2010

South Africa’s Stellenbosch University scientists led by Eugene Cloete invented a kind of teabag which, instead of filtering tea impurities, purifies water at the lowest price and energy consumption possible.

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High Pressure Desalination Process Used At Large Scale by Indian Company

Posted by Mike in Water Purifiers on August 3, 2010

IVRCL, a company from India, has finished a high-tech desalination plant in the city of Madras. According to officials, this plant is the biggest in South Asia, using seawater to generate 100 million liters of potable water a day for the city’s seven million residents. They also said it will supply 1,000 liters of drinking water for just over $1.

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Wetox Process Invented in New Zealand Breaks Waste Sludge Into Usable Chemicals and Energy

Posted by Ovidiu in Water Purifiers on June 10, 2010

Cleaning out the dirt that we leave behind is an important task for the well-being of a society. One of the biggest pollution sources is currently the disposal of organic materials coming from animal farms, wineries and dairy factories. Wetox is a clean technology project announced by Viclink, who commercializes products based on Victoria University of Wellington’s (New Zealand) theoretical works.

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Prickly Pear Cactus Mucilage Removes Bacteria and Dirt from Water, Acting as Purifier

Posted by Ovidiu in Water Purifiers on April 29, 2010

Norma Alcantar and her colleagues extracted the cactus’s mucilage – the thick gum that the plant uses to store water, and mixed it with water to which they had added dirt (sediments and bacteria – Bacillus cereus).

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Portable Desalination System Designed by MIT Could Save Lives

Posted by Ovidiu in Water Purifiers on March 26, 2010

Water desalination is very important in areas where earthquakes, tsunamis or other natural catastrophes occurred. Usually, these areas are located near the sea or the ocean, and desalinizing the water could definitely save lives.

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SunPower Helps Sewage Treatment Plants Get Self Sustaining

Posted by Cristi in Solar Power, Water Purifiers on January 11, 2010

Wastewater treatment plants are usually packed with industrial-sized aerators, pumps and other machines that usually use a lot of electricity from the grid. But SunPower Corp. developed a solar power system for the West Riverside Wastewater Treatment Plant in Corona, California that is able to generate one-megawatt of energy

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New Microbubble Production Making Biofuels and Wastewater Treatment More Efficient

Posted by Ovidiu in Biodiesel, Water Purifiers on January 11, 2010

I didn’t really actively realize that current biofuel production technologies imply the usage of fossil fuels at certain moments of the production process. This fact reduces the biofuels’ credibility as a cleaner source of energy and increases their carbon footprint.

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Hydrology Student Invents Solar Powered Mass Desalination System

Posted by Calin in Solar Power, Water Purifiers on January 8, 2010

Worldwide terminus lakes could benefit from a new system to desalinate water, using a low-cost solar pond and patented membrane distillation system powered by renewable energy.

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World’s First Osmotic Power Plant Goes Online in Norway

Posted by Mike in Energy news, Water Purifiers on November 25, 2009

The process, called osmotic power, is a harvesting the energy that appears when salt water and fresh water meet through an osmotic filter. For the moment, the project is small-scale but could prove the great potential of osmotic energy.

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Saltworks’ New Desalination Technology Uses 70% Less Energy

Posted by Cristi in Water Purifiers on November 16, 2009

Saltworks Technologies reported that they can produce 1 cubic meter of fresh water using just 1kWh compared to 3.7kWh per cubic meter achievable using reverse osmosis.