Containerized desalination system
AssigneeFluence Water Israel Ltd.
InventorsAvraham Israel Amaral, Ravid Levy, Phil Elovic
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Abstract
A water desalination system includes a first set of ultrafiltration membranes, a second set of ultrafiltration membranes, a first backwashing system configured to treat at least one of the first set of ultrafiltration membranes or the second set of ultrafiltration membranes with brine generated by a reverse osmosis process, and a second backwashing system configured to treat at least one of the first set of ultrafiltration membranes or the second set of ultrafiltration membranes with one or more chemicals and reverse osmosis permeate water.
Claims21
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A method comprising:
- passing water through a reverse osmosis process;
- backwashing a first set of ultrafiltration membranes or a second set of ultrafiltration membranes with brine generated by the reverse osmosis process;
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- backwashing at least one of the first set of ultrafiltration membranes or the second set of ultrafiltration membranes with one or more chemicals and reverse osmosis permeate.
A water desalination system comprising:
- a first backwashing mechanism configured to treat one or more ultrafiltration membranes with brine generated by a reverse osmosis process;
- a second backwashing mechanism configured to treat one or more ultrafiltration membranes with one or more chemicals and reverse osmosis permeate water;
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- a plurality of ultrafiltration trains configured to operate parallel to one another.
A method for water desalination comprising:
- backwashing one or more ultrafiltration membranes with brine generated by a reverse osmosis process;
- backwashing one or more ultrafiltration membranes with one or more chemicals and reverse osmosis permeate water;
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- operating a plurality of ultrafiltration trains in parallel to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.