According to the “Water Services Industry Performance Report 2011” issued by SPAN (Suruhanjaya Pengurusan Air Negara), ten percent of residents in rural areas within Malaysia still lack access to a safe drinking water supply. Within Sarawak alone, there are 8,000 communities that require drinking water treatment solution. Supplying clean drinking water to remote locations is a logistical challenge. The UM team leaders, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua and Prof. Ir. Mohamed Azlan Hussain, from the Department of Chemical Engineering. Faculty of Engineering, UM identified maintenance and power supply as key obstacles to a solution. To overcome this, self-cleaning routines and solar power were incorporated into the design of the ultrafiltration system.
Saturday 16 April 2016
DEMONSTRATION OF ULTRAFILTRATION SYSTEM FOR DRINKING WATER TO MINISTER IN THE PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT
SELANGAU, April 15 (Bernama) -- Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, officiated the launch of an ultrafiltration system for drinking water developed by an engineering team from Universiti Malaya (UM) for Rumah Senabong in Selangau, Sarawak on 9 April 2016. The event, which was also attended by Associate Professor Dr. Arham Abdullah, Director of Industry Relations Division, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, was organized together with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and Malaysia Innovation Hub, which have been collaborating with UM on implementation of this system in Sarawak.
According to the “Water Services Industry Performance Report 2011” issued by SPAN (Suruhanjaya Pengurusan Air Negara), ten percent of residents in rural areas within Malaysia still lack access to a safe drinking water supply. Within Sarawak alone, there are 8,000 communities that require drinking water treatment solution. Supplying clean drinking water to remote locations is a logistical challenge. The UM team leaders, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua and Prof. Ir. Mohamed Azlan Hussain, from the Department of Chemical Engineering. Faculty of Engineering, UM identified maintenance and power supply as key obstacles to a solution. To overcome this, self-cleaning routines and solar power were incorporated into the design of the ultrafiltration system.
According to the “Water Services Industry Performance Report 2011” issued by SPAN (Suruhanjaya Pengurusan Air Negara), ten percent of residents in rural areas within Malaysia still lack access to a safe drinking water supply. Within Sarawak alone, there are 8,000 communities that require drinking water treatment solution. Supplying clean drinking water to remote locations is a logistical challenge. The UM team leaders, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua and Prof. Ir. Mohamed Azlan Hussain, from the Department of Chemical Engineering. Faculty of Engineering, UM identified maintenance and power supply as key obstacles to a solution. To overcome this, self-cleaning routines and solar power were incorporated into the design of the ultrafiltration system.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment