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NEWS in brief
India’s NIOT prepares detailed report on offshore
desalination
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Wolverhampton, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1)
of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974.
Speaking after the hearing, HSE Inspector David Kivlin
said: “This is a heartbreaking story where a worker
suffered horrendous injuries.
“It is vital that organizations have proper risk management
in place when pedestrians and large industrial machinery
are working closely together.
“The waste and recycling sector, which is made up of
around 120,000 workers, has a statistically higher rate of
workplace injury and work-related ill health than other
sectors.
The desalination plant is proposed to be built 40 kilometres offshore of
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
The report covers a 10,000 m3/d facility 40 kilometres
off the coast of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, that will utilize
the difference in temperature between surface water and
deep sea water for desalination. The warmer surface water
evaporates at low pressures, and the vapour is condensed
using deeper, colder water to produce desalinated water.
NIOT is aiming to have the project considered as part of
India’s Union Minister of Earth Sciences (MoES) Deep
Sea Mission, scheduled for March 2018.
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