Category: Your Daily News on Water

New technology for sewage treatment to boost lakes’ revival in Delhi

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NEW DELHI: To revive lakes in the city with quality treated water, Delhi government is adopting a new technology that does aeration and bacteria treatment of the sewage to augment efficiency of the sewage treatment plants (STPs).Officials said they aimed at treating over 500MGD sewage, and over 150MGD treated water would be infused into the lakes, including 25 acres of Sanjay Lake. The technology uses aeration machines and the integrated fixed film activated sludge (IFAS) process to quickly enhance dissolved oxygen (DO) and reduce biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). While the…

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Bentley Systems Announces Acquisition of EasyPower®, Leader in Power Systems Engineering Software

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Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced it has acquired EasyPower, a leading developer of design and analysis software tools, including arc flash solutions, for electrical engineering professionals. Since its founding in 1984, Portland, Oregon-based EasyPower has innovatively combined graphics-based modeling and analysis in order to make solving complex electrical engineering problems ever more straightforward and accessible. EasyPower products are primarily used for designing, analyzing, and monitoring power distribution systems serving industrial and commercial facilities, to ensure safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance. Bentley’s acquisition of…

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Bentley Systems and Genesys International Collaborate to Provide 3D Mapping Capabilities for Major Cities across India

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Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, and Genesys International, a pioneer in advanced mapping and geospatial content services, today announced that Genesys’ 3D City Digital Twin Solution for Urban India – the first city digital twin project launched by any Indian company – will be powered by OpenCities 365, Bentley’s infrastructure digital twin solution for cities and campuses. This massive mapping and surveying project has begun and will capture most of urban India.Genesys previously partnered with Bentley to successfully pilot an earlier digital twin solution that…

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Ocean Exchange Selects Semi-finalists for 2022 Awards: Receives record number of applications from around the world

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Ocean Exchange, a leader in supporting the acceleration of innovative solutions for healthy oceans and the sustainable blue economy, announces the selection of semi-finalists vying for the prestigious 2022 Neptune Award, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Orcelle® Award, and Ocean Exchange Innovation Award for Transportation and Logistics Hubs (Transportation Hub Award). Each of these three awards carries prize money of $100,000 and will be conferred at the organization’s upcoming event, which takes place October 23-25 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Ocean Exchange Solutions Review Team will now review the applications submitted by the…

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Inauguration of biological wastewater treatment plant at LANXESS

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LANXESS has commissioned a new wastewater treatment plant at its Belgium Kallo/Antwerp site. The special chemicals company invested around EUR 12 million in the plant, which has a treatment capacity of around 260,000 liters of wastewater per hour.LANXESS thoroughly modernized and expanded the existing water treatment plant to comply with the stricter environmental legislation. It was a challenging job because the plant had to remain operational throughout the renovation. The wastewater treatment plant not only processes the wastewater from the LANXESS plants on the site, for the production rubber chemicals…

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FUKUI COMPUTER Partners with Bentley Systems to Promote Digital Transformation in Japan’s Infrastructure Field

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FUKUI COMPUTER, Inc (Head Office: Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture; President: Tadashi Sugita), the CAD vendor for the construction industry, has entered into a strategic partnership with Bentley Systems (Head Office: Exton, Pennsylvania, USA; CEO: Greg Bentley), the infrastructure engineering software company, to accelerate the adoption of digital workflows in the Japanese construction industry and support the promotion of digital transformation (DX) in the infrastructure field.In Japan, there are concerns about the increasing shortage of labor in the infrastructure field, which is impacting the ability to take measures to mitigate aging…

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NX Filtration part of ACCIONA-led initiative to eliminate emerging pollutants from water sources

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NX Filtration, the global provider of breakthrough direct nanofiltration technology for pure and affordable water, announces its participation in the European innovation project LIFE PRISTINE, led by ACCIONA S.A. The project’s objective is to eliminate emerging contaminants in the integral water cycle, one of the essential measures to promote alternative water resources in the face of water scarcity, which affects more than 2.8 billion people worldwide.o The LIFE PRISTINE project has a budget of 4 million euros and is coordinated by ACCIONA, the Spanish sustainable infrastructure solutions group. Next to…

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Advent International and LANXESS announce future global business structure and designated management team members for envisaged High Performance Engineering Materials joint venture

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Following the announcement of Calum MacLean as CEO-designate, Advent International (“Advent”) and LANXESS AG (“LANXESS”) announce the envisaged global business structure and designated extended management team of the envisaged High Performance Engineering Materials joint venture (“JV”).Upon closing of the transaction, the JV will be organized into three global business divisions: Performance Materials (comprising DEM Performance Polymers and HPM Engineering Plastics), Specialty Materials (comprising DEM Specialties and HPM Tepex), and Intermediates (comprising HPM Intermediates and DEM Polymer & Films). This structure will take into consideration the specific market characteristics and management…

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STL becomes the world’s first optical manufacturer to be ‘Zero Liquid Discharge’ certified

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STL, one of the industry’s leading integrators of digital networks today announced that 100% of its Indian manufacturing facilities are now Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) certified by Deutsch Quality Systems (DQS India). This is a great milestone for STL in its UN SDG goal of attaining ‘Water Positivity by 2030’.While India only has 4% of the world’s freshwater reserves at present, the demand will rise by over 70% by 2025, stressing water supply chains like never before. For STL, water management is a top priority in its materiality matrix. This…

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Vitens and NX Filtration start pilot for testing Ijssel river water as potential source for drinking water

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Vitens, the largest drinking water utility in the Netherlands, is starting a pilot program with NX Filtration, the global provider of breakthrough direct nanofiltration (dNF) technology for pure and affordable water. In the pilot program, Vitens will use NX Filtration’s dNF membrane technology to produce drinking or industrial process water from the Dutch Ijssel river. The pilot program of Vitens is expected to run from October 2022 to Fall 2024.Today, groundwater is Vitens’ primary source for high quality and reliable drinking water production. As a response to growing demand for…

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