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Environmental Sciences

2009

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Desalination

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Treatment Of Ro Concentrate Using Vsep Technology, Guillermo Guadalupe Delgado Jan 2009

Treatment Of Ro Concentrate Using Vsep Technology, Guillermo Guadalupe Delgado

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The city of El Paso has the largest inland brackish desalination plant in the world. The Kay Bailey Hutchison (KBH) Desalting plant produces 15 million of permeate water every day. Due to the excellent quality of the water, the permeate water is blended with brackish water producing a final volume of 27.5 million gallons of water every day. With an average recovery rate of 80%, the KBH plant produces an average of 3 million gallons of concentrated brackish water that is disposed of via injection wells 23 miles from the plant.

Conventional reverse osmosis (RO) systems are not capable of …