Design and operation of a 5 ml/d RO desalination plant in arid Australia
✍ Scribed by Bobby Watson; Geoff Marks; Emilio Gabbrielli; Les Chapple
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 563 KB
- Volume
- 96
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-9164
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✦ Synopsis
This paper deals with the environmental features, design and operating experience of the largest brackish water reverse osmosis (RO) plant for fresh water production in Australia.
Optimization of plant performance has been achieved by the implementation of comprehensive daily plant monitoring, with operator involvement higher than anticipated as a result of the extensive cleaning required, especially during early plant operation. Conventional cleaning procedures were found to be ineffective when severe fouling problems occurred, and turbidity and SD1 values found not to adequately reflect fouling potential. During the majority of the operational life of the plant RO feed water turbidity has been less than 0.1 NTU and the SD1 value less than 2.5.
Average daily operational data during the first nine months of service of Hydranautics CPA2, Fluid System TFCL and Filmtec FT30 elements are also included.