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Innovator: Robert McGinnis of Oasys Water The former Navy diver was dismayed by how much energy it takes to desalinate seawater. So he developed a more efficient process.   |
Chemistry World
August 7, 2008 |
Making Seawater Easier to Swallow Researchers based in the US and Korea have developed a membrane that cuts the costs of filtering salt from seawater. |
Chemistry World
March 21, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Drinking water from sunlight and seawater A device that can 'push' the salt out of seawater has been developed by US researchers. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Sally Adee |
Eight Technologies for Drinkable Seawater Desalination takes too much energy, but emerging technologies will help |
Chemistry World
February 2012 |
Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth. |
Chemistry World
December 5, 2007
Jonathan Edwards |
Water Cleaning Membrane Shows Hybrid Vigour Scientists in the US have combined naturally-occurring channel proteins with a new polymer to create a membrane that could be used to deliver drugs or purify water. |
Popular Mechanics
February 5, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Plumbing the Planet: The 5 Biggest Projects Taking on the World's Water Supply Around the world, countries are trying to combat water supply problems with ever-more-clever engineering: bigger and badder treatment plants, pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Here are five projects hoping to be big and bad enough. |
Chemistry World
November 5, 2014
Elisabeth Bowley |
Energy positive treatment for fracking water Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a technique that can simultaneously remove organic pollutants and salinity from contaminated water while producing energy. |
Chemistry World
October 20, 2015
Philip Ball |
Nanotube desalination could be put back on track Computer simulations by researchers in China show what seems to be holding up this technology -- and suggest a way round the problem. |
Chemistry World
September 2009 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball looks at a new device that creates energy from salinity differences between fresh and sea water |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Sarah Adee |
New Water Technology Headed for Parched Places Capacitive deionization to debut in drought-struck Australia. |
Fast Company
Dec 2014/Jan 2015
Jon Gertner |
We're Running Out Of Water As California's drought worsened, just north of San Diego a massive seawater desalination plant-moved closer to completion. |
Chemistry World
June 10, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Electrode dip to freshen up saltwater Producing freshwater from brackish water could be cheaper and easier than previously thought, according to researchers who have developed a new technique for desalination. |
Chemistry World
April 18, 2012
Elinor Richards |
Homogeneous Catalyst Recovery Made Easier Scientists have now found a way to recover homogeneous catalysts at the end of a chemical reaction that doesn't suffer from the slow reaction rates that affect current catalyst recovery systems. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2013
Banholzer & Jones |
Possible versus practical Scientists and engineers must do a better job assessing and explaining the difference between the subset of discoveries that offers practical solutions and the set that is simply possible. |
Chemistry World
November 12, 2012
Holly Sheahan |
Oil loving membranes for oil spill clean-ups Researchers in China have made a new type of membrane that can separate oil from water and could potentially be used in oil spills, such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2011
Rebecca Lipman |
Desalination: China's Next Growth Industry? Do you think these names have something to gain from China's determination to grow the desalination industry? |
Chemistry World
June 18, 2015
David Bradley |
Ultra-thin membranes for solute separation Polymer membranes that are extremely thin, yet strong and stable, could cut the costs of separating organic molecules and reduce energy requirements in the chemical industry. |
Reactive Reports
December 2003
David Bradley |
The Virtual Rotarians Rotary evaporators are ubiquitous in organic synthesis laboratories. They provide a means to remove solvent from a product mixture in the least time and without damaging the product. But, what exactly goes on inside such a device? The answer comes from a Cambridge team in the form of a Java applet. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2011
Mike Brown |
Exfoliating layered materials Layered materials can be separated into individual sheets with enhanced electronic properties using a new quick and simple method, says an international team of researchers. |
National Defense
December 2012
Dan Parsons |
Water, Water Everywhere ... That Troops Can't Drink Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying that an army marches on its stomach. But an even more important tactical necessity than food is the availability of clean drinking water. |
IDB America
August 2005
Daniel Drossdoff |
From the Sea to the Kitchen How a new desalination technology is easing The Bahamas' age-old water problems. The plant was constructed on a build-own-operate contract and sells its entire production to The Bahamas Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC). |
Chemistry World
January 22, 2015
Katie Lian Hui Lim |
Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity. |
Scientific American
December 5, 2005
Graham P. Collins |
Cheaper Dots A new process slashes the cost of quantum dots (fluorescent nanoparticles of semiconducting material). |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Sally Adee |
Water Ship Up Firm gets $250 million to make oceangoing desalination vessels. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2012 |
Low Salt Diet to Flush Out Oil BP has announced the first deployment of a new technology that it says will lead to a 'step change' in the amount of oil recovered from reservoirs. |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2015
Andy Extance |
Espresso maker brews up tasty extraction Researchers in Australia have used an unmodified household espresso maker to get nearly pure shikimic acid -- a raw material for Roche's antiviral drug Tamiflu -- from the spice star anise. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
GE Aims to Make Waves Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination for GE. |
The Motley Fool
April 10, 2008
Kris Eddy |
It's a Wet World The water-purification industry presents many investing angles. |
