I visited El Paso Water‘s Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant in El Paso, TX on October 30th, 2019. This plant is the largest brackish groundwater desalination facility in the United States with a total capacity of 27.5 million gallons per day (MGD). There are five 2-stage RO skids, each of… Continue reading
I visited the City of Alamogordo Brackish Water Treatment Facility in Alamogordo, NM on October 29th, 2019. It is a brand-new brackish groundwater desalination facility with a capacity of 1 million gallons per day (MGD), which can be expanded to 4 MGD. There are two RO skids. An evaporation pond… Continue reading
I was invited to give a presentation at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility (BGNDRF)‘s 2nd Annual WIN Workshop on October 28th and 29th, 2019. BGNDRF is a research facility of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and is located in beautiful Alamogordo, NM. During my presentation, I gave an… Continue reading
Ikehata Lab @ Texas State is up & running!
A new article (in Japanese) on the water treatment plant in South Carolina using the ozone-hydrogen peroxide advanced oxidation process (AOP) has been published in the Suido Koron! Please contact me if you are interested in reading the article (& are able to read Japanese).
On August 26th, 2019, I visited the Carlsbad Desalination Plant in Carlsbad, CA as a technical tour offered during the American Chemical Society (ACS)’s National Meeting and Expo in San Diego, California. This event was organized by the ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement (CEI) as part of the meeting theme… Continue reading
On August 22nd, 2019, a new master’s student Ms. Han Gao and I visited San Antonio Water System (SAWA)‘s Brackish Groundwater Desalination Facility at H2Oaks Center (4588 Hardy Rd, Elmendorf, TX 78112) with my friend and collaborator Dr. Harshad Kulkarni (UT San Antonio). SAWS’s staff kindly gave us an excellent… Continue reading
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