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Dow for Southern Seawater Desalination Plant

  13/11/2009
Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS) announced that the Company's Filmtec reverse osmosis (RO) elements have been selected for the new Southern Seawater Desalination Plant (SSDP) outside Perth, Australia. The SSDP will use SWRO 440-series Dow Filmtec elements in a two-pass RO system for seawater and brackish water, producing 50 billion litres of drinking water annually (with the capacity to expand to 100 billion litres per year).

 

SSDP will be the second major seawater desalination plant in Western Australia, a state whose inland reservoirs today contain only one-quarter of the water available 30 years ago. By 2031, Perth expects to need an additional 150 billion litres of water to meet population demands.

 

"The new Southern Seawater Desalination Plant will utilize 440 square foot Dow Filmtec membrane elements," said Kai-Uwe Hoehn, senior account manager for large projects, DW&PS. "This project is also utilising a combination of advanced design features-internally staged design and a permeate split-to maximise performance of the desalination technologies."

 

Currently, the Perth Seawater Desalination Plant located off the coast of Cockburn Sound provides 17% of Perth's water needs. At the completion of the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant project in late 2011, more than 30% of Western Australia's water supply will come from climate-independent sources such as desalination.


Construction of the plant began in July 2009 and, upon completion, an intensive ocean monitoring program will analyse the plant's seawater discharge to ensure the ongoing health of marine environments.

For more information visit www.dowwatersolutions.com/sw.





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