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Ionic& Czech partner to clean up water aquifer Ionics Incorporated has announced that Ionics-Mega sro, its joint venture company in the Czech Republic, has received a $5.6 million order from Diamo sp, the successor company to the Czech state uranium industry. Ionics-Mega will supply Diamo with a system to help remediate an underground water aquifer contaminated by the by-products of an acid leaching process for uranium mining. Approximately $4.0 million will involve equipment and services supplied by Ionics. The wastewater treatment system will use Ionics’ proprietary electrodialysis reversal membrane technology to remove and concentrate the contaminants, producing water of sufficient purity to allow discharge to a local river. The process stream containing the concentrated contaminants will be further treated by an evaporator and crystallizer wastewater treatment system. This is currently being installed by Ionics under an earlier contract from Diamo to remediate a large underground reservoir of sulphuric acid solution which was formed in the process of mining uranium ore. Both wastewater treatment systems will be located at the former uranium mining site approximately 100 km from Prague. Forfurther information contact: Zonics Incorporated, PO Box 9131, Watertown, MA 02272-9131, USA. Tel: +1 617 926 2500; fax: +l 617 926 4304.
Second Rumanian contract for Uhde Oltchim S.A. of RM V&lcea, Rumania, has awarded a contract to Uhde GmbH, of Dortmund, Germany for the conversion of a diaphragm electrolysis plant to the membrane-cell technology. With this second order for a membrane electrolysis plant, the overall capacity of the Uhdeconstructed plants in Rumania will be 240,000 tonnes of caustic soda solution per year. The new plant will utilise Hoechst /Uhde’s energy-saving and environmentally friendly membrane cells. The project, for which Uhde has assumed the overall responsibility, will be carried out with Uhde’s affiliate Intecsa Uhde Industrial S.A., Madrid, the Finnish company RAUMA Eco Planning Gy and in close cooperation with the Process Engineering and Design Institute PETRODESIGN S.A., Bucharest. The total contract is valued at DM76 million, with
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Uhde’s share of the contract valued at DM48 million. The capacity of the new plant will be 350 tonnes caustic soda solution per day. Commissioning is schedule for June 1997. Forfurther information contact: Uhde GmbH, Friedrich-Uhde-Strasse 15, D-441 41 Dortmund, Germany. Tel: +49 231 547O;fax: +49 231 547 3032.
Vaponics appoints new General Manager Osmonics has announced the appointment of Wil Pergande as Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of Vaponics, Inc., Osmonics’ business unit in Rockland, Massachusetts. Pergande will be responsible for all marketing management. In addition, he will enhance Vaponics’ business position in the pharmaceutical industry and provide sales and marketing support to the brackish and sea water conversion equipment production line. Vapor&s manufactures water and steam purification equipment for the pharmaceutical industry, as well as brackish and sea water reverse osmosis equipment. Pergande is a Director of the International Desalination Association (IDA), and serves as a Technical Committee Chairman as well as Poster Exhibit Coordinator for the 1995 World Congress in Abu Dhabi. Further informationfrom: Osmonics Inc., 5951 Clearwater Drive, Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343-8995, USA. Tel: +l 612 933 2277. Fax: +l 612 933 0141.
Microscopic honeycomb structures developed Japanese researchers have produced the worlds smallest honeycomb structure reports The NLkkel Weekly (7 August, 1995). Potential applications range from filters for very 6ne particles or viruses to the manufacture of advanced semiconductors. The cells of the honeycomb are 70 nm in diameter and are arranged at uniform intervals of 100 run. According to the report, the research project was inspired by a phenomenon in which the surface of an aluminium plate in an acid solution becomes porous aluminium oxide when an electric charge is passed through it. Researchers learned that the size of the Membrane Technology No. 65
Ionic& Czech partner to clean up water aquifer Ionics Incorporated has announced that Ionics-Mega sro, its joint venture company in the Czech Republic, has received a $5.6 million order from Diamo sp, the successor company to the Czech state uranium industry. Ionics-Mega will supply Diamo with a system to help remediate an underground water aquifer contaminated by the by-products of an acid leaching process for uranium mining. Approximately $4.0 million will involve equipment and services supplied by Ionics. The wastewater treatment system will use Ionics’ proprietary electrodialysis reversal membrane technology to remove and concentrate the contaminants, producing water of sufficient purity to allow discharge to a local river. The process stream containing the concentrated contaminants will be further treated by an evaporator and crystallizer wastewater treatment system. This is currently being installed by Ionics under an earlier contract from Diamo to remediate a large underground reservoir of sulphuric acid solution which was formed in the process of mining uranium ore. Both wastewater treatment systems will be located at the former uranium mining site approximately 100 km from Prague. Forfurther information contact: Zonics Incorporated, PO Box 9131, Watertown, MA 02272-9131, USA. Tel: +1 617 926 2500; fax: +l 617 926 4304.
Second Rumanian contract for Uhde Oltchim S.A. of RM V&lcea, Rumania, has awarded a contract to Uhde GmbH, of Dortmund, Germany for the conversion of a diaphragm electrolysis plant to the membrane-cell technology. With this second order for a membrane electrolysis plant, the overall capacity of the Uhdeconstructed plants in Rumania will be 240,000 tonnes of caustic soda solution per year. The new plant will utilise Hoechst /Uhde’s energy-saving and environmentally friendly membrane cells. The project, for which Uhde has assumed the overall responsibility, will be carried out with Uhde’s affiliate Intecsa Uhde Industrial S.A., Madrid, the Finnish company RAUMA Eco Planning Gy and in close cooperation with the Process Engineering and Design Institute PETRODESIGN S.A., Bucharest. The total contract is valued at DM76 million, with
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Uhde’s share of the contract valued at DM48 million. The capacity of the new plant will be 350 tonnes caustic soda solution per day. Commissioning is schedule for June 1997. Forfurther information contact: Uhde GmbH, Friedrich-Uhde-Strasse 15, D-441 41 Dortmund, Germany. Tel: +49 231 547O;fax: +49 231 547 3032.
Vaponics appoints new General Manager Osmonics has announced the appointment of Wil Pergande as Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of Vaponics, Inc., Osmonics’ business unit in Rockland, Massachusetts. Pergande will be responsible for all marketing management. In addition, he will enhance Vaponics’ business position in the pharmaceutical industry and provide sales and marketing support to the brackish and sea water conversion equipment production line. Vapor&s manufactures water and steam purification equipment for the pharmaceutical industry, as well as brackish and sea water reverse osmosis equipment. Pergande is a Director of the International Desalination Association (IDA), and serves as a Technical Committee Chairman as well as Poster Exhibit Coordinator for the 1995 World Congress in Abu Dhabi. Further informationfrom: Osmonics Inc., 5951 Clearwater Drive, Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343-8995, USA. Tel: +l 612 933 2277. Fax: +l 612 933 0141.
Microscopic honeycomb structures developed Japanese researchers have produced the worlds smallest honeycomb structure reports The NLkkel Weekly (7 August, 1995). Potential applications range from filters for very 6ne particles or viruses to the manufacture of advanced semiconductors. The cells of the honeycomb are 70 nm in diameter and are arranged at uniform intervals of 100 run. According to the report, the research project was inspired by a phenomenon in which the surface of an aluminium plate in an acid solution becomes porous aluminium oxide when an electric charge is passed through it. Researchers learned that the size of the Membrane Technology No. 65