Water Desalination & RO
Designing And Optimizing 10,000 m 3 /day Conventional SWRO Desalination plant
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Credit to: https://www.researchgate.net/
Author: Usama Ezzeghni
September 2018
ABSTRACT:
Desalination of seawater has been considered as one of the most promising techniques for supplying a fresh water in Libya. Reverse osmosis (RO) is one of the main technologies for big size desalination plants for the reason that it offers an ability of producing a high quality and quantity of fresh water
from seawater with a minor specific energy consumption compared to the other thermal evaporation processes. This paper aims to collect and apply the most useful mathematical equations and software of designing a seawater RO desalination plant with a capacity of 10,000 m3/day. Moreover, its
pretreatment equipment such as sedimentation tank, high-pressure pump, multimedia and cartridge filters. IMSdesign software developed by Nitto Hydranuatics Company used for designing and optimizing the membrane assembly of the suggested plant. Additionally, the energy recovery device (ERD)
specification accomplished by the same earlier software. In addition, the recommended antiscalant dose predicted by PWT ProDose software. The recovery of the plant increased to more than 40% with less number of membrane elements due to installing new advanced membranes (SWC6 MAX) developed by Nitto Hydranuatics Company. Moreover, pressure exchanger device recommended for the designed plant to decrease the specific pumping energy from 4.81 kWh/m3 to 2.09 kWh/m3, which saves more energy, thus, decreases the unit product cost of the plant.
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Note: The Composite Polyamide type of RO membrane elements may not be
exposed to chlorinated water under any circumstances. Any such exposure may
cause irreparable damage to the membrane. Absolute care must be taken
following any disinfection of piping or equipment or the preparation of cleaning or
storage solutions to ensure that no trace of chlorine is present in the feedwater to
the RO membrane elements. If there is any doubt about the presence of chlorine,
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appropriate storage tanks located within the project. Membrane concentrate will be disposed via an injection well to be constructed as part of this project.
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