randyandy
Chemical
- Apr 14, 2004
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HI all. We are currently bidding for a big (at least for our company) size RO sea water desalination plant, 60.000 m3/day with 45% recovery i.e. the inlet sea water to the plant is 5555 m3/hr, and this water has to be disinfected before the filtration + RO membranes. We are used to dose NaOCl as disinfection method, but we are worried about the operating costs for such plant (running is also within our scope of work)and huge amounts of chemicals required. So i was fancying about UV sterilization. Apart from installation costs and power consumption, which is low compared to the other plant systems, do you have any feedback about existing plants, drawbacks, problems, etc. with using such technology instead of typical chemical dosing? Thank you in advance for support and wishes of happy new year to all!
Andrea
Andrea