Operation of the RO Kinetic ® energy recovery system: Description and real experiences

Orders & Contracts

A comprehensive review of energy consumption of seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants

Waste energy recovery in seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants. Part 1: Review

SWRO process simulator

Retrofits to improve desalination plants

Seawater reverse osmosis with isobaric energy recovery devices

Analysis of the influence of the configuration in ERD retrofit in two-stage SWRO trains

Energy consumption and membrane replacement cost for seawater RO desalination plants

Performance model for reverse osmosis

Technical review, evaluation and efficiency of energy recovery devices installed in the Canary Islands desalination plants

Consideration of energy savings in SWRO

In Republic of Korea, seawater engineering and architecture of high efficiency reverse osmosis (SEAHERO) research and development (R&D) program started from 2007 to lead the top seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant technologies for desalination with the fund of US $165 million for 6 years including test-bed plant construction. There are three technical strategies for SEAHERO R&D program called 3L, which represents large scale, low fouling, and low energy, respectively. Large scale means design, construction, and operation of the largest unit SWRO train [daily water production rate = 8 MIGD (36,000 m3/day)] in the world. Low-fouling strategy targets the decrease of RO membrane fouling by 50%. The specific target for low energy is total energy consumption of whole SWRO plant (including intake, pretreatment, SWRO systems, and so on) less than 4 kWh/m3. The core parts for SWRO plant, such as 16 in. diameter RO membrane and energy recovery device, were developed and will soon be introduced to a test-bed including the largest unit SWRO train. The next step of SEAHERO is real field scale test-bed application of the unit technologies developed for the past 4 years (2007–2010) such as strategic pretreatment, energy-saving technology, and reliable system monitoring.

The availability and security of water production using reliable energy recovery technologies

Influence of site-specific parameters on environmental impacts of desalination

Various bacterial growth potential (BGP) methods have been developed recently to monitor biofouling in seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) systems such as assimilable organic carbon and bacterial regrowth potential. However, the relationship between these methods and biofouling in SWRO desalination plants has not yet been demonstrated. In this research, an attempt is made to investigate if a correlation exists between BGP of SWRO feed water and the chemical cleaning frequency in SWRO plants using an ATP-based BGP method employing an indigenous microbial consortium. Using ATP-based BGP method at 5 different seawater locations showed low variations of bacterial yield.The BGP method was applied to assess the pretreatment performance of three full-scale SWRO plants with different pretreatment processes. Dual media filtration (DMF) showed the highest BGP removal (>50%) in two SWRO plants. Removal of BGP and hydrophilic organic carbon in dissolved air floatation combined with ultrafiltration was similar to the removal achieved with DMF in combination with inline coagulation. For the three SWRO plants investigated, a higher BGP in SWRO feed water corresponded to a higher chemical cleaning frequency. However, more data is required to confirm if a real correlation exists between BGP and biofouling in SWRO plants.