DESALINATION CASE STUDIES AND WHITE PAPERS
AES Puerto Rico Cogeneration Plant (AESPR) is a cogeneration power plant that produces 454 MW of net electricity in its fluidized bed boiler plant in Guayama, which is sold to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).
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Seawater Desalination At Rabigh Refinery Saudi Aramco’s RABIGH Refinery in Saudi Arabia wanted to install facility for 10000 TPD Seawater Desalination for the industrial use. The facility was supposed to be a BOOT (Build Own Operate Transfer) basis. By Aquatech International Corporation
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Case Study: Seawater Desalination At Rabigh Refinery Saudi Aramco’s RABIGH Refinery in Saudi Arabia wanted to install facility for 10000 TPD Seawater Desalination for the industrial use. The facility was supposed to be a BOOT (Build Own Operate Transfer) basis. By Aquatech International Corporation
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Water Reuse Strategies: Steel Industry Case Studies Successful reuse of water back into industrial water applications requires a comprehensive understanding of process design, water chemistry, membrane systems, chemical treatment, instrumentation and control. By David Christophersen, Technical Support Manager, Crown Solutions -
Case Study: Steel Processor Wastewater Recycle
The reuse of industrial wastewater is becoming increasingly common because of water shortages, environmental necessities, economic incentives, government mandates, and societal desires. By David Christophersen, Technical Support Manager, Veolia Water Technologies
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Case Study: Aquatech Supplies One Of Most India's Largest Tertiary Treated Sewage Recycle Plants The water supply body in Mumbai having increased water charges to almost a dollar per cubic meter of water in year 1998-99, and the huge water quantities demanded for processing of fertilizers, RCF required a solution wherein it could effectively recycle the sewage water to be made available by the Municipal body. By Aquatech International Corporation
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Waste Water Recycle System Based On HERO™ Technology For Reliance IndustriesReliance Industries, the flagship company of the Reliance Group, is India's largest private sector company with a significant presence across the entire energy chain and a global leadership across key product segments. By Aquatech International Corporation
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White Paper: Understanding Differences Of Boiler Feedwater Pretreatment EquipmentAs a water treatment professional, there are several reasons for understanding the various types of boiler pretreatment equipment. It is helpful to grasp all selection criteria for the type of pretreatment. These factors are used for deciding what new equipment to install or why the existing equipment is appropriate or not appropriate. By Dave Christophersen, Veolia Water Technologies
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Understanding Differences Of Boiler Feedwater Pretreatment Equipment
As a water treatment professional, there are several reasons for understanding the various types of boiler pretreatment equipment. By Dave Christophersen,Veolia Water Technologies
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White Paper: Water Reuse Strategies: Steel Industry Case Studies
The steel industry has historically presented challenges for effective water treatment because it is a high water user and the applications may involve high heat, critical noncontact cooling, direct contact cooling, high suspended solids waters, oil and grease contamination, and complicated cascading. By Dave Christophersen, Veolia Water Technologies
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Water Reuse Strategies: Steel Industry Case Studies
The steel industry has historically presented challenges for effective water treatment because it is a high water user and the applications may involve high heat, critical noncontact cooling, direct contact cooling, high suspended solids waters, oil and grease contamination, and complicated cascading. By Dave Christophersen, Veolia Water Technologies
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Aquatech’s Seawater Reverse Osmosis Plant Succeeds In India India’s first Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) at Mundra in Coastal Gujarat, a 4,000 MW coal fired plant, is owned by Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL), a Tata Power group company.
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Case Study: Aquatech’s Seawater Reverse Osmosis Plant Succeeds In India India’s first Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) at Mundra in Coastal Gujarat, a 4,000 MW coal-fired plant, is owned by Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL). CGPL will draw seawater from the Mundra coast for various utilities and for their main boiler. Aquatech has been awarded the contract for executing the 4,622 GPM (permeate) capacity seawater reverse osmosis plant (SWRO). -
Saudi Arabian Airport Successfully Uses Aquatech’s Seawater Reverse Osmosis System India’s first Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) at Mundra in Coastal Gujarat, a 4,000 MW coal fired plant, is owned by Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL), a Tata Power group company.
DESALINATION PRODUCTS
Leopold® Desalination Pretreatment Systems by Xylem
Pretreatment Systems
Grundfos Booster Module Systems
The BMS range is a new range of booster modules for reverse osmosis and ultra-filtration applications that improve efficiency with a directly coupled pump powered by a permanent magnet motor and VFD.
OPUS® II Technology - a New Innovation for High Recovery of Water for Reuse
OPUS® II is a proprietary process for high recovery of complex wastewater streams. This new innovation uses CeraMem® ceramic membranes as pretreatment for reverse osmosis to reduce the system footprint. OPUS II can be delivered in modular, containerized units to minimize installation costs.
Like the original OPUS technology, OPUS II effectively removes silica, organics, hardness, boron, strontium and particulates. It generates high quality effluent at a high recovery rate, providing clean water for discharge, recycle or reuse.
Wastewater Recycle/Water Reuse
Aquatech provides wastewater recycle/water reuse systems that incorporate their experience with many technologies associated with wastewater treatment associated with industrial applications.
MECTAN® Grit Chamber
DESALINATION PODCASTS
Energy-Saving Desalination Technology
As water resources dwindle, more and more focus turns to desalination technologies. In this interview with Water Online Radio, Harland Pond and Thomas Morrison of Grundfos talk about the company’s commitment to innovation and their quest to solve the world’s water problems.
Closed Circuit Desalination Simplifies Reverse Osmosis To Drive Down Energy Costs
As industry, agriculture and residential consumers compete for available freshwater sources, desalination continues to evolve as a viable process for increasing the available water pool. Industrial water is perhaps most critical as it accounts for as much as sixty percent of the freshwater being withdrawn in the United States today. Rising wastewater disposal costs, sustainability initiatives, and higher water efficiency standards are all fueling interest from industry in onsite brackish water reuse. However, municipal interest in water-stressed areas of the world is also on the rise.
Low-Cost Desalination — The Promise Of Forward Osmosis
Utilizing low-pressure, low-energy membrane technology, Oasys Water is setting out to change the way people think about desalination. Lisa Marchewka, VP of strategy and marketing for Oasys, explains how forward osmosis is more energy- and cost-efficient than competing technologies.
The World Of Desalination, Opened
Avshalom Felber, president and CEO of IDE Technologies, talks to Water Online Radio about the advancement of desalination technologies worldwide, the applications for both municipal and industrial markets, and how to overcome the obstacles to widespread adoption.
Solving Water Scarcity
Rob Renner, executive director of the Water Research Foundation, describes how utilities are taking a holistic approach to managing their communities’ water supply including water reuse, desalination, brackish desalination and other sources of water supply
DESALINATION APPLICATION NOTES
- Membrane Degassing And Debubbling Of High Viscous Fluids With Liqui-Cel® And SuperPhobic® Membrane Contactors
- Desalination Plants: YSI Instruments Monitor Flow & Water Quality At Multiple Stages
- Chemical Cost Comparison Of A Conventional Deaerator Vs A Liqui-Cel® Membrane Contactor System
- Chinese Chemical Plant Optimizes Water Treatment By Replacing Double Pass RO With A Single Pass RO And Liqui-Cel® Contactor System
- Application Note: Desalination Plants: YSI Instruments Monitor Flow & Water Quality At Multiple Stages
DESALINATION VIDEOS
Smartrack Microfiltration and Ultrafiltration Water Treatment System: Video
Degremont's Smartrack Microfiltration and Ultrafiltration Water Treatment System is a universal rack with interchangeable MF/UF membranes. It's capable of handling the 4 principal module supplier brands found on the market -- ASAHI, DOW, GE, TORAY -- and inter-piping to allow switching the filtrate/concentrate exits.
DESALINATION NEWS
- New Tech May Make Desalination Cheaper, Greener
- First OriginOil Licensee Completes Demonstration System Incorporating OriginOil’s EWS For The Treatment Of Frack Water
- KSB Introduces The Most Efficient High-Pressure Pump Unit For RO Systems
- Promising Results Shown For California American Water’s Seawater Desalination Slant Wells
- Mitsubishi Corporation And Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Undertake Strategic Investment In Metito, The Leading Water Company In Emerging Markets
- Dow FILMTEC Goes Tankless
- First-Of-Its-Kind Desalination Plant Unveiled In Texas
- California Dives Into Desalination
- Desalination Plant Put On Hold In New York
- Dow TEQUATIC PLUS Fine Particle Filter Proves Effective In Multiple Customer Applications
DESALINATION SUPPLIERS
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Amiad Water Systems Leading supplier of automatic, self-cleaning filters, valves and accessories for municipal and industrial applications|Cost effective pre-filtration solution for membrane protection including surface water applications for RO, UV, UF and effluent water|Provide filtration degrees from 3 - 3500 microns and service any flow rate needed -
Aquatech International Corporation For over 2 decades, Aquatech has provided industry worldwide with proven water and wastewater treatment systems|We strive to enable our customers to maximize efficiency by concentrating on their core businesses while we provide the leadership and expertise necessary in water treatment|Our mission is to utilize innovation and performance excellence to drive toward the ultimate goal--a lower overall life cycle cost of treatment -
Filtronics, Inc.Filtronics has manufactured water and waste water treatment systems for industrial and municipal applications since 1974
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PEPCON Systems PEPCON Systems (PEPCON) designs, manufactures and services equipment that utilizes a proven electrochemical process to safely and economically treat water and control odor in a variety of applications. These systems are marketed under the names ChlorMaster® and OdorMaster® and are available worldwide. -
QUA GroupQUA® headquartered in USA, is a developer and manufacturer of leading-edge advanced membrane products used in the water, wastewater, and water reuse markets. Sold exclusively through a global network of qualified OEM's, QUA's product offering includes their innovative Fractional Electrodeionization (FEDI®) stack, which has superior hardness tolerance compared to the other electro-deionization products on the market and their NSF Certified Q-SEP® Ultrafiltration (UF) membranes.
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Severn Trent ServicesSevern Trent Services is a leading supplier of water and wastewater treatment solutions. We provide our clients with some of the industry’s brightest minds, advanced technologies, and quality products to provide you with truly efficient, cost-effective solutions to your water and wastewater challenges
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Evoqua Water TechnologiesEvoqua Water Technologies, formerly Siemens Water Technologies, is a leader in water and wastewater treatment products, systems and services for industrial and municipal customers. We offer a wide range of proven product brands and advanced water and wastewater treatment technologies, mobile and emergency water supply solutions and service contract options.
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Veolia Water TechnologiesVeolia Water Technologies offers comprehensive water and wastewater solutions for industrial and municipal customers. With unique technologies and process expertise, Veolia specializes in engineering, design, and project management, construction and execution.
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Leopold -- A Xylem Brand Leopold Universal Type S and SL Underdrain|Leopold IMS Cap|Leopold DAF - Dissolved Air Flotation|Leopold Clari-Trac (CT2) Submerged Sludge Collector|Leopold Clari-Vac Floating Sludge Collector|Leopold Engineered Filter Media Products|Leopold Instruments And Controls| Leopold Ultrafiltration Membrane Systems
ABOUT DESALINATION
Desalination is the process of removing salt and other minerals from saline water. In regions of the world where water is scarce, such as Saudi Arabia, desalination is seen as a viable alternative to more traditional potable water treatment. Desalination has also been used to produce a reliable water supply in tourist destinations such as Aruba. Desalination has also been gaining traction in areas of rapid population growth such as Singapore and Beijing.
Traditionally, desalination plants have been expensive in comparison to traditional drinking water plants due to the upfront financing costs, treated water transportation costs and ongoing energy and concentrate disposal costs. However, as technical innovation brings the energy cost of desalination down and populations continue to migrate to warm, arid climates such as Phoenix, AZ, desalination is starting to catch on as a viable alternative.
All desalination processes involve three liquid streams. The first stream is the saline feed water which is also called brackish water or seawater. The second stream is the low-salinity product or finished, treated water. The third stream is the byproduct of the desalination process, the very saline concentrate brine or reject water.
The primary desalination process being used commercially for drinking water treatment is reverse osmosis, where a semi-permeable membrane is used to separate the salt and other minerals from the pure water. A reverse osmosis desalination system consists of four major processes. During the pretreatment phase, the incoming brackish or seawater is pretreated to adjust its pH, remove suspended solids, and control scaling to avoid fouling the membranes.
During the second phase, pumps raise the pressure of the pretreated feed water to create the correct pressure differential between the pressurized feed water and the product water to move the permeate through the membrane. The pressurization phase is followed by the separation phase, creating a freshwater product stream and a concentrated brine reject stream. Two of the most popular reverse osmosis membranes used during this phase are the spiral wound and hollow fine fiber membranes.
The final phase of the desalination process is the stabilization phase that often requires a pH adjustment and degasification before being transferred into the drinking water distribution system.