Treatment News
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From Sewer To Solution: Stanford Engineers Reinvent Wastewater Purification To Unlock Valuable Resources
4/21/2025
Wastewater isn’t just waste – it’s packed with hidden value. Stanford researchers are developing cutting-edge resins – porous beads that together act like a coffee filter – not only to remove contaminants but also to recover valuable products, like ammonia for fertilizer.
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High-Efficiency Ceramic Membrane For Oil-Water Separation Technology: Solving The Industry Challenge Of Low Industrial Wastewater Recovery Rates
6/24/2025
With the acceleration of global industrialization, emerging market countries such as Indonesia and Saudi Arabia face severe industrial wastewater treatment challenges.
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KBR And RMIT Rethink Wastewater Treatment With Innovative Partnership
11/25/2025
When it comes to designing wastewater treatment plants, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. To help improve wastewater treatment plant design, KBR recently partnered with RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) on a groundbreaking research project.
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Sunvapor's Pilot Desalination Facility Purifies Oilfield Water In The Permian Basin
3/16/2026
Sunvapor, Inc., a leading developer of low-carbon industrial process plants, and Southeast New Mexico College (SENMC) have commenced joint operations of the country's first solar desalination facility located at a commercial salt water disposal well.
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Innovative Three-Phase Separator Solutions For High Water-Cut Oilfields
10/10/2025
Across the globe, every ton of crude oil produced is accompanied by 3 to 6 tons of produced water. In China, with an annual crude oil output of about 4 billion tons, the volume of produced water requiring treatment is enormous. However, the national reuse rate remains below 70%.
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MLC Acquires Burnett, Expanding Mineral Solutions Portfolio And Operations
1/6/2026
MLC, an international producer of lime and calcium solutions, has completed the acquisition of Burnett, Inc., a technical leader in lime slurry, systems and services primarily utilized in water treatment. The financial terms of the transaction will not be released.
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Valicor Environmental Services Acquires Affordable Waste Management
4/2/2025
Valicor Environmental Services ("Valicor"), a leading provider of centralized waste treatment and recycling services in North America, today announced it has acquired Affordable Waste Management, Inc. ("Affordable Waste"), the Louisville-area wastewater and sludge-hauling operations of Grasslands Environmental Services.
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Berner Industrier Acquires Typhonix And Adds Cutting-Edge Expertise In Water Treatment
12/17/2025
Berner Industrier has today signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares in the Norwegian registered Typhonix AS.
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IIT Guwahati Scientists Use Fruit Waste To Treat Polluted Wastewater
3/25/2025
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati researchers have developed a sustainable and cost-effective method to remove toxic pollutants from industrial wastewater using biochar made from fruit waste.
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Climate Neutrality: Marine Fuel From Wastewater
3/24/2025
There are around 80,000 wastewater treatment plants in Europe – and thus considerable potential for a novel, climate-neutral process for producing the general-purpose chemical methanol.