Performance and Cost Review of Desalination Plants

The successful operation of seawater reverse osmosis (RO) plants depends on the ability of the pretreatment system to consistently produce a high quality filtered water for the RO process. The goal of this project was to develop a knowledge-base to provide water utilities with a set of key criteria for the evaluation of conventional versus membrane-based pretreatment technologies. The researchers collected data from 10 existing seawater reverse osmosis plants to understand impacts of feed water quality and non-water quality related factors on the performance of pretreatment technologies and the downstream RO process. An Excel-based interactive tool was developed to assist water utilities in the selection of various seawater pretreatment systems for seawater reverse osmosis desalination. Published by WRF. 90 pages. Online PDF. (2018)

Originally funded as WERF project Desal-14-07.

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