civil engineer

1. Reverse Osmosis (RO)
Plant- An overview
By; Saeed Muhammad
WPBG Sharjah

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

3. Water Treatment
• Electro-dialysis (ED)
• Ultra-filtration (UF)
• Reverse Osmosis (RO)

4. 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

5. 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

6. Summary

7. Project Example

8. 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
-
inj
ect
ion
W
ell
s
Treated Water
750 TDS
Brine/Reject
Water @ 45 K
TDS Average
REVERSE OSMOSIS PLANT

9. Tilal Golf Resort RAK

10. 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 SCALE
Ground
Level

11. An Exercise
• Click here