Process:Reverse Osmosis
Client:Kindasa Water Services Company
Country: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Site:Jeddah Port,
Contract Description:Design / Supply of a Sea Water Reverse Osmosis Plant
Contract Date:March 2003
Capacity:26,840 m³ / per day
Sea Water Conversion:47%
Sea Water Feed Quality:42,500mg/l (tds)
Fresh Water Output Quality:< 250 mg/l (tds)
Project Description:
26,840 m£/day Sea Water Reverse Osmosis Plant (3 x 8,947 m£/day trains) utilising a Hybrid pre-treatment system of Media Filtration and Membrane Filtration.
Process Description:
Seawater is delivered from the intake system seawater lift pumps, to the Hybrid pre-treatment system comprising 1st stage "roughing" media filtration and 2nd stage ultra-filtration.
The plant consists of a 2 pass RO system comprising of 1st pass SWRO trains followed by 2nd pass BWRO polishing trains.
The 1st pass train pressure is delivered in an energy efficient manner by a train dedicated feed pump / pelton wheel combination.
