Question: brackish groundwater desalination
Published on by sulabha kumar, dev crops - Manager in Business
Can any one give me some brief about brackish ground water desalination? and also tell me how many successful BGD plants are running in the world particularly in Asia?
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A brief overview of the desal industry reveals abundant evidence of successful brackish water desalination plants. The US total desal cpacity is dominated by RO brackish water desalination. Desal plant operators accross the US have accumulated a vast expertise with BWRO: conception, dimesioning, membrane selection, scaling prevention, brine deep well injection... BWRO is widely implemented globally- from small single RO module systems to very large plants. But the lower salinity of the water does not necessarily implies that BWRO is more straightforward than SWRO. One should not overlook the potential complexity of seasonal quality variations of underground brackish water. Water quality variations may have important consequences on scaling and anti-scalant dosage. Also experience in the Near East has shown that the salinity of underground water may increase during the lifetime of a plant. Therefore engineers should carefully consider when designing the plant. This may be less critical for very small plants. Agadir (Morocco) is a rather good exemple for extensive use of small scale low cost BWRO by farmers.
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Camp Dresser McGee (CDMSmith) operates several large desalt plants (50 mgd's) in Florida, USA, using brackish ground water.
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Brackish water desalination involves production of fresh water using saline water sources such as groundwater which have salinity (total dissolved solids) concentration of 1,000 to 15,000 mg/L. Most brackish water plants use low salinity sources - 1,000 to 3,000 mg/L of water. At this salinity brackish water desalination can be completed cost effectively with reverse osmosis and electrodialysis. Reverse osmosis is most popular. The cost of water production by brackish ground water reverse osmosis desalination is typically between 0.3 and 0.5 US$/m3