Abstract
Kuwait has realised that in spite of the success which has been achieved in sea water desalination by Reverse Osmosis for normal sea water, still more has to be done in this field for the Arabian Gulf sea water which has different properties of high TDS, Silt Density Index and Temperature. Hence, a joint program in sea water Desalination by Reverse Osmosis between Water Resources Development Centre/Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research of Kuwait and GKSS of Federal Republic of Germany to carry out in Kuwait, under joint management the operation of three independent RO lines employing sea water membranes of Spiral Wound, Hollow Fine Fiber and Plate & Frame Configuration of capacity 1000 Cubic Metre per day each. These three RO lines are operated in parallel. The sea water membranes used in the first stage of three RO lines are: Spiral Wound UOP-1501 (PA), Hollow Fine Fiber DUPONT B-10 (PA) and Plate & Frame membranes of Enro (CA), Schleicher & Schull (RO 112) and Filmtec (FT-30). The membranes used in second stage are Spiral Wound UOP-8600 (PA), Hollow Fine Fiber DUPONT-B9(PA) and Spiral Wound Hydronautics 8040 B(CA) respectively. This paper discusses briefly, the operating parameters, membrane performance and availability of each line.
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