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Call for papers: renewable energy sources for desalination Lack of adequate supplies of fresh water is an issue facing many communities across the Earth. This is especially true for the countries surrounding the Mediterranean. Southern Mediterranean countries feel the problem most acutely. Many of these countries have rapidly expanding populations, lack a technical infrastructure and have much lower rainfall. Desalination is used to make naturally occurring water potable. Its use can range from the treatment of mildly contaminated brackish water to the desalination of seawater. Desalination is a relatively mature technology, with a variety of processes available. Unfortunately these processes are energy intensive and many countries with water shortages also suffer from energy shortages. One way of overcoming this is to use renewable energy sources. All of the Mediterranean countries have some renewable energy sources that could be used for this purpose. The European Commission, through various programmes has promoted the development of renewable energy sources. It may now be possible to combine these with desalination. The main focus of the conference, to be held in Santorini, Greece, lo-12 June 1996, will be on the problems of combining the technologies and describing the operational experience gained to date. Sessions include the use of wind energy, solar energy and other renewable energy sources, market opportunities and related social issues. Forfurther information, contact: Dr Platen Balms, CRJZS,19th Km Marathonos Avenue, GR-19009, Pikermi, Greece. Fax: +30 I 603 9905.
New CEO for Millipore The board of directors of the Millipore Corporation has elected C. William Zadel as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of the company. He succeeds John Gilmartin, who has decided to retire, and will take over the role on the 1st of April, 1996. Zadel, fifty-two, has been President and CEO of CIBA-Corning Diagnostics Corporation since 1986. Under his leadership, CIBA-Corning increased
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revenues from $160 million to more than $500 million, and pretax profits from 1.5% to almost 12%. Forfurther information, contact: Millipore Corporation, 80 Ashby Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA. Tel : +1 617 275 92OO;fax: +l 617 275 3110.
ESMST XIIIth summer school This year’s summer school will have the theme, membrane processes in food and biotechnological applications, and will be held 15- 19 September, in Lund, Sweden. The organisers aim the summer school primarily at younger postdoctoral and post graduate students who are interested in membrane science and technology. It is hoped that industrialists will also attend. Forfurther information, contact: Gun Tr&g&rdh, Lund University, Food Engineering, PO Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden. Tel : +46 46 222 9821; fau: +46 46 222 4622.
$5.9 million contract for Ballard Ballard Power Corporation, the US subsidiary of Canadian Ballard Power Systems has won an US $5.9 million contract for the development of a methanol fuel cell bus. The contract is part of a programme undertaken by Georgetown University in Washington DC, with a grant from the United States Department of Transportation. Work on the contract, starting immediately and continuing to mid 1998, will involve the development of a 135 HP (100 kw) methanol fuel cell engine. This engine could be used to power small buses or be used as part of a hybrid system powering heavy duty transit buses. Ballard believes the 135 HP methanol fuel cell engine developed under this contract will complement the 275 HP hydrogen fuel cell that it is are currently commercialising. The programme will enhance proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology for transportation applications. Forfurther
information,
contact: Ballard Power
Systems, 107-980 West 1st Street, North Vancouver; SC, V7P 3N4, Canada_ Tel :+f 604 986 9367; fax +1 604 986 3262.
Membrane
Technology
No. 71
Call for papers: renewable energy sources for desalination Lack of adequate supplies of fresh water is an issue facing many communities across the Earth. This is especially true for the countries surrounding the Mediterranean. Southern Mediterranean countries feel the problem most acutely. Many of these countries have rapidly expanding populations, lack a technical infrastructure and have much lower rainfall. Desalination is used to make naturally occurring water potable. Its use can range from the treatment of mildly contaminated brackish water to the desalination of seawater. Desalination is a relatively mature technology, with a variety of processes available. Unfortunately these processes are energy intensive and many countries with water shortages also suffer from energy shortages. One way of overcoming this is to use renewable energy sources. All of the Mediterranean countries have some renewable energy sources that could be used for this purpose. The European Commission, through various programmes has promoted the development of renewable energy sources. It may now be possible to combine these with desalination. The main focus of the conference, to be held in Santorini, Greece, lo-12 June 1996, will be on the problems of combining the technologies and describing the operational experience gained to date. Sessions include the use of wind energy, solar energy and other renewable energy sources, market opportunities and related social issues. Forfurther information, contact: Dr Platen Balms, CRJZS,19th Km Marathonos Avenue, GR-19009, Pikermi, Greece. Fax: +30 I 603 9905.
New CEO for Millipore The board of directors of the Millipore Corporation has elected C. William Zadel as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of the company. He succeeds John Gilmartin, who has decided to retire, and will take over the role on the 1st of April, 1996. Zadel, fifty-two, has been President and CEO of CIBA-Corning Diagnostics Corporation since 1986. Under his leadership, CIBA-Corning increased
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revenues from $160 million to more than $500 million, and pretax profits from 1.5% to almost 12%. Forfurther information, contact: Millipore Corporation, 80 Ashby Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA. Tel : +1 617 275 92OO;fax: +l 617 275 3110.
ESMST XIIIth summer school This year’s summer school will have the theme, membrane processes in food and biotechnological applications, and will be held 15- 19 September, in Lund, Sweden. The organisers aim the summer school primarily at younger postdoctoral and post graduate students who are interested in membrane science and technology. It is hoped that industrialists will also attend. Forfurther information, contact: Gun Tr&g&rdh, Lund University, Food Engineering, PO Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden. Tel : +46 46 222 9821; fau: +46 46 222 4622.
$5.9 million contract for Ballard Ballard Power Corporation, the US subsidiary of Canadian Ballard Power Systems has won an US $5.9 million contract for the development of a methanol fuel cell bus. The contract is part of a programme undertaken by Georgetown University in Washington DC, with a grant from the United States Department of Transportation. Work on the contract, starting immediately and continuing to mid 1998, will involve the development of a 135 HP (100 kw) methanol fuel cell engine. This engine could be used to power small buses or be used as part of a hybrid system powering heavy duty transit buses. Ballard believes the 135 HP methanol fuel cell engine developed under this contract will complement the 275 HP hydrogen fuel cell that it is are currently commercialising. The programme will enhance proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology for transportation applications. Forfurther
information,
contact: Ballard Power
Systems, 107-980 West 1st Street, North Vancouver; SC, V7P 3N4, Canada_ Tel :+f 604 986 9367; fax +1 604 986 3262.
Membrane
Technology
No. 71