TITLE:
Performance Evaluation and Design of RO Desalination Plant: Case Study
AUTHORS:
Mona A. Abdel-Fatah, Ayman El-Gendi, Fatma Ashour
KEYWORDS:
Desalination, Brackish Water, RO Design Unit, Energy Recovery Systems
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.4 No.2,
February
17,
2016
ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to design a water desalination plant using
Reverse Osmosis membrane to treat salt water to be usable for drinkable,
domestic, industrial or agricultural uses. RO unit is designed to conservative
standards for versatility in the event of feed water quality variations. The
design includes a feed water flush cycle to minimize membrane fouling and
piping corrosion during shutdown. The system will be all appropriate controls
and instrumentation for automatic operation. All system components are
available and of heavy duty industrial design and fabricated with the highest
quality workmanship. Quality control will be maintained throughout all
manufacturing processes. The system will produce permeate water minimum of 3600
m3/day with a quality of approximately 100 ppm total dissolved
solids (TDS) when operating on well feed water with a 10,000 ppm TDS and a
temperature of 25 - 30 degrees C. The design permeate recovery is 50%; and
energy recovery device which saves $30,556.28/year.