Fukuoka is urban areas have geographical-s-problems of the type not blessed with big water systems, such as a first grade river, and has been hit by the water shortages often in the past.Then there is the necessity for development of water resources which address demand, and it was determined that a Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination plant be used for the Fukuoka District Waterworks Agency. This plant is required to be “Low operating cost” and “High quality reliability”. The design conditions are to produce water of 50,000 m
3 per day with RO desalination system with a recovery is ratio of 60%. In addition, this plant is specified to produce low TDS (less than 200 ppm) permeate steadily. It is aimed at high recovery run of sea-water desalination system for “low cost”. Feed flow rate and brine flow rate can be reduced with high recovery run, and the quantity of pretreatment becomes less and the amount of electric-power consumption can also bereduced.
It is expected that the Fukuoka seawater desalination plant, when it goes on stream in 2005, will provide water actively as a trump card of the new development for water resources in the Fukuoka district.
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