VA Tech Wabag will commission the Rs 1,033-crore seawater desalination plant it is building for Chennai Metrowater by the month end, according to an authorised source. The 100-million-litre-a-day project nearing completion on the East Coast Road about 35 km to the South of Chennai weathered the impact of Cyclone Nilam earlier this week. The facility is unscathed except for some water logging and debris that ...

KSB (Germany) are planning to launch their new compact unit for reverse osmosis with seawater desalination in early 2013.Called the SALINO Pressure Center, the unit will consist of an axial piston pump and an axial piston motor, arranged on a common shaft. Driven by the diaphragm return flow, the axial piston motor transfers its power directly to the pump shaft. These means three functions will be fulfilled ...

Biothane (Netherlands), specialists in anaerobic technologies and a part of Veolia, have announced they have been awarded a contract in Indonesia to provide a food & beverage (F&B) manufacturer with a wastewater treatment plant. The solution offered is the Biothane UASB (Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket). The Biothane UASB is a solution aimed at treating highly concentrated effluents, which can be a ...

Vietnam was awarded $50 million in funds from the World Bank for wastewater treatment plant improvements to help curb pollution at its industrial parks. At least eight wastewater systems in industrial parks in Nam Dinh, Ha Nam, Dong Nai and BaRiaVungTau, four of the country’s most industrialized provinces, will be constructed with the funding. Industrial parks discharge as much as 1 million cubic meters of ...

The government of China’s Jiangxi Province has just released the 12th Five-Year New Energy Development Plan spanning 2011 to 2015. It reveals that the province plans to focus on the development of non-fossil energy sources including hydraulic, wind, solar, biomass and geothermal. Jiangxi province is home to rich resources 6.85 GW of hydropower reserves, accounting for approx 1% of China's total, including 5 ...

The Xayaburi hydropower project is on schedule to begin supplying electricity in 2019, as the Laotian government has given no written notice of its cancellation or postponement, said Norkun Sitthiphong, permanent secretary of the Thai Energy Ministry. The Xayaburi hydropower project is on schedule to begin supplying electricity in 2019, as the Laotian government has given no written notice of its cancellati ...

The Indonesian government has decided to reduce the amount that coal miners must sell in the domestic market this year by 18 percent due to lower consumption by power plants. Miners must allocate 67.3 million metric tons of coal under the so-called domestic market obligation, down from the previous requirement of 82.1 million tons, said Edi Prasodjo, the coal business director at the Energy and Mineral Reso ...

Consumers will have to pay twice as much for electricity by 2017 if power generation still relies on natural gas, and the options of nuclear or coal are not included in the National Energy Development Plan. To rectify this, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is revising its power development plan and will propose it to the government soon. The revised plan will increase the number of co ...

The improved performance was mainly attributed to a RM750 million fuel cost compensation, a lower coal price and steady electricity demand. Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) has posted a net profit of RM1.0 billion for the fourth quarter ended August 2012, bettering a net loss of RM322.5 million in the comparable quarter a year ago. The improved performance was mainly attributed to a RM750 million fuel cost compens ...

The Japanese manufacturer Hitachi Ltd. Has agreed to buy Horizon Nuclear Power from Germany’s two largest utilities for £696 million ($1.1 billion), ensuring support for the U.K. government’s energy program. The transaction will be completed next month and secure financial backing for as many as six new nuclear reactors at two sites in Britain, according to a statement from Hitachi and the utilities, RWE AG ...