Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plant- An overview

By; Saeed Muhammad WPBG Sharjah

Signposts

• Water Treatment• Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plant• Project Example• An exercise• Discussion-Comments-Questions

Water Treatment

• Electro-dialysis (ED)• Ultra-filtration (UF)• Reverse Osmosis (RO)

Reverse Osmosis

• This is reverse of natural process osmosis• Reverse osmosis is a separation process that

uses pressure to force a solvent through a membrane that retains the solute on one side and allow the pure solvent to pass to the other side.

• Treated water used for drinking, irrigation and other misc. uses

Reverse Osmosis

• Feed- Direct sea water, Beach wells, saline water from shallow and deep wells

• Permeate- Direct Human use • Concentrate- waste water known as

Brine

Summary

Project Example

Tilal Golf Resort RAK

Blended Water @ 3000 TDS for Golf course & Landscape area Irrigation

SALINE RAW WATER 20K TDS FROM ABSTRACTION BORE HOLES

To Re-injection Wells

Treated Water 750 TDS

Brine/Reject Water @ 45 K TDS Average

REVERSE OSMOSIS PLANT

Tilal Golf Resort RAK

Tilal Golf Resort RAK

Mud /clay Layer below @ about 125m

100-125 m

125-200m

Brine Re-Injection Well

Abstraction Well

Mean Sea Level

Underground Water Level

NOT TO SCALEGround Level

An Exercise

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