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High recovery system in seawater reverse osmosis plants
Author(s) -
Fujiwara Nobuya,
Matsuyama Hideto
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.27943
Subject(s) - desalination , seawater , reverse osmosis , geothermal desalination , reverse osmosis plant , process engineering , environmental science , energy recovery , environmental engineering , engineering , chemistry , membrane , mathematics , energy (signal processing) , geology , statistics , biochemistry , oceanography
Seawater desalination by the reverse osmosis (RO) method is an energy‐saving system compared with the evaporating method, and can perform seawater desalination efficiently. Seawater RO desalination technology has been established and become a reliable system. Seawater desalination plants using RO technology have spread and the scale of the plants has increased significantly. More economical and efficient RO method seawater desalination systems have come to be required. A high recovery system, which offers reduction of plant construction cost and running cost was devised. Towards realization of this high recovery system, simulation and the field tests were done to confirm the practicality. Furthermore, a high recovery system was adopted for the biggest desalination plant in Japan, and it is performing favorably. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008