Sentences with phrase «forward osmosis»
The UBE works by using a wastewater treatment process called forward osmosis to filter out contaminants from urine and shower wastewater, leaving clean water and urea separately.
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As a result, forward osmosis units can be installed on - farm such as dairy farms, not just in factories.
Preliminary estimates show that the capital costs of forward osmosis can be less than 70 per cent and operating costs less than 60 per cent of those for evaporation, its main competitor technology.
Jennifer Klare of Porifera with Australia's first forward osmosis unit for the food industry at CSIRO's food innovation centre in Werribee, Melbourne
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Given the advantages in energy and transport efficiency, high quality concentrates and product functionality, amongst others, we believe there is a bright future for forward osmosis technology in the food industry.
[Music plays and CSIRO logo and text appears on screen: CSIRO and Porifera demonstrate the first forward osmosis unit for the food industry in Australia]
Water technology company Modern Water opened the first commercial forward osmosis plan in Al Khaluf, Oman, in 2010, and they opened a second plant in Al Najdah in 2012.
So forward osmosis is a good way to get rid of a wide range of contaminants that might be in the water, since the membrane will weed them out — but you still end up with saltwater on the other side, meaning you must go through an additional desalination step at the end to totally purify the water.
Not exact matches
A tiny start - up in Boston is pioneering a revolution in the wastewater treatment industry that could turn it on its head: a forward - osmosis technology to purify the water used in fracking.
Since founding the company in 2009, Olgica has led Porifera, applying its unique, world - leading forward - osmosis technology to problems in ZLD, water reuse, and food and beverage processing around the world.