Presentation summarizes two large seawater/ocean RO facilities in Israel: 17 MGD Larnaca and 86 MGD Ashkelon, the largest one in the world. Discussion includes energy recovery and energy consumption, plant availability (99.27%), desalinated water quality for chloride and boron, and design issues....

The process of recovering gauge pressure from SWRO desalination plants is a well known. Till now the osmotic pressure present in SWRO brine stream was not recovered. This paper presents a way that allows simultaneous power recovery of gauge and osmotic pressure. Simultaneous power recovery of both power sources gives a higher power yield the two pr...

This paper talks about lessons learned fom operation of the Ashkelon plant. The “Pressure Center” design is suitable for large scale SWRO plants. For the next generation of SWRO plants, we are developing a list of ecologically friendly technologies: Multi frequency alarming system, for installation in intake structure to protect marine hab...

The main boost in desalination technology will come from new membranes currently in development, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, aquaporin, and others. The common feature of all these membranes is high flux operation, dozens of times higher than that of the present membranes. This dramatic increase in flux promises a list of technological a...