Desalination and Water Reuse Quarterly
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Seawater Desalination Research Bradley Sessions has been with Carollo Engineers in Boise, Idaho for 2 years. Previously he worked throughout the Caribbean basin designing, building and operating SWRO facilities for Consolidated Water, Ltd. and was involved in the R&D of the DWEER energy recovery system with Desalco, Ltd. Figure 8. Energy Consumption vs System Size – Scaling the ADC kWh/m3 kWh/kgal 16.0 14.0 3.17 12.0 2.64 10.0 2.11 8.0 1.58 6.0 1.06 4.0 0.52 2.0 PEER REVIEW Gerry Filteau, Separation Processes, Inc. Paige Gourley, Hydranautics Membranes Phil Lauri, West Basin Municipal Water District Rick Lesson, Koch Membranes Victor Verbeek, Toray Membranes 0.0 mgd m3/day 0 10 20 38,000 76,000 30 40 114,000 151,000 50 189,000 60 227,000 Plant size to test new prefiltration, pump and energy-recovery technologies to measure the ability of these new technologies to reduce the overall cost to produce water. AUTHORS John P MacHarg is Managing DirectorCEO of The Affordable Desalination Collaboration and President of Ocean Pacific Technologies, Inc. Previously he was the General Manager of Energy Recovery Inc. where he was involved in the development, commercialization and marketing of pressure exchanger energy recovery technology for desalination systems. He was also a Vice President at Village Marine Technology where he worked in the design, manufacture and sales of packaged seawater desalination equipment. He has been working within the desalination industry for over 17 years. Tom Seacord is an Associate and Project Manager with Carollo Engineers, P.C. and has been specifically dedicated for the past 10 years in the area of desalination. He is a licensed professional engineer and has a B.S. and M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Clarkson University. Tom worked on planning, pilot testing, design, construction and start-up of desalination treatment plants in California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas and Utah. Tom is a current member of the AMTA Board of Directors and the current Chairperson of the Government Affairs Committee. He is a member of AMTA, SEDA, IDA, and AWWA. He sits on the Board of Directors for the ADC. REFERENCES 1. Seacord, T.F., J. MacHarg, and S. Coker. Affordable Desalination Collaboration 2005 Results. Proc. 2006 AMTA Conference. Anaheim, California. 2. Detailed NPV models can be found on the ADC Website Data Page. 3. MacHarg, J. 2001. Exchanger Tests Verify 2.0 kWh/m3 SWRO Energy Use. International Desalination and Water Reuse Quarterly. Vol 11/No. 1 4. Proto, T., E. Schoepke, L. Etchinson, T. O'Brien, B. Hernon, K. Perry, and M. Peterson. 2000. Production of High Purity Water from Seawater. Proc. 2000 North American Biennial Conference of the American Desalting Association. South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. 5. Seacord, T.F., S. Dundorf, and J. MacHarg. Affordable Desalination Collaboration 10 mgd Conceptual Case Study. Proc. 2007 AMTA Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. 6. Water Sources Powering Southern California, by Robert C. Wilkinson Ph.D., January 2004. 7. Water and Desalination Report, vol 41, #42, These prices represent the volumetric price of water, including taxes, for domestic consumers using less than 15 m3 per month. Desalination & Water Reuse Vol. 18/2 3.70 Total Treament Energy 4.22 39 © 2008 FAVERSHAM HOUSE GROUP