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Pilot filtration study to reduce fouling on Marbella seawater RO plant by Mike Jefferies; Miguel Esteban Martin; Mariana Vodnar; Stefan Rybar; Craig Bartels is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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The seawater RO plant at Marbella had operated intermittently, and at low flowrates, since its construction 10 years ago. This was because the plant had been designed to operate at times of water shortage, to provide water when the conventional supplies were not available. During the early part of the 21st century, the mode of the plant changed, and it was expected to operate at design capacity for most of the time. This brought two facts to light -that during high abstraction rates the intake water quality deteriorated significantly, and that the filtration system that had been installed was not capable of adequately filtering the feed water to make it suitable for feeding to a reverse osmosis plant. The plant was originally built using DuPont B10 permeators. Due to the unavailabilty of these permeators, the plant is currently being converted, stream by stream, to spiral wound membranes supplied by Hydranautics. At design flowrates, the DuPont system fouled rapidly, and required cleaning every two weeks. The spiral trains fouled more slowly, but still required cleaning at a higher frequency than would be considered normal for this type of plant. A pilot filtration plant was instal

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Author

Mike Jefferies; Miguel Esteban Martin; Mariana Vodnar; Stefan Rybar; Craig Bartels

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0011-9164)

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)