Product
Water Treatment
Desalination Technology
Desalination removes dissolved salts from a saline water source such as seawater, brackish water or wastewater.
Although various methods can be used to desalinate seawater, thermal (evaporative) and reverse osmosis (membrane based) methods are the two most commonly used and mature desalination technologies.
The reverse osmosis technology will be used desalination plant.
Fine particles are removed during initial screening before the water passes through the reverse osmosis membrane.
Turning seawater into drinking water
- Seawater enters the desalination plant through an intake system Water enters at a low speed to avoid impacts on marine life.
- Seawater passes through an initial screening to remove fine particles.
- Seawater is then filtered to remove finer particles.
- Filtered seawater passes through the reverse osmosis membranes.
- Drinking water is pumped into water supplies.
- Seawater concentrate will be about twice as salty and only about one degree warmer than the water drawn into the plant. Modelling work to date has shown that the salt content and temperature will return to normal seawater salinity and temperature around 100m from the discharge point.
