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Drinking water treatment

Urban water management

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Aquaporin’s CLEAR reduces operating feed pressure by 13%

7. October 2024

Solution provider

Aquaporin

Aquaporin works to preserve the Earth’s most valuable resource – water – by combining advanced bioengineering, open innovation, and natural aquaporins, nature's own water purifiers, which they embed into water purification membranes and solutions.

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Challenge

emaser s.a., a joint venture majority owned by Aqualia operates a water treatment plant in a Spanish municipality in Ciudad Real where the local well water has high levels of sulfate and nitrate. To provide safe and high-quality water for human consumption and meet local drinking water requirements, emaser operates this brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) system to treat the well water and supply water to the municipality. In a continuous commitment to improve the treatment efficiency with innovative technologies, emaser is upgrading some facilities with Aquaporin Inside® CLEAR Ultra BWRO membranes.

Solution

The system is able to achieve a better rejection rate – 98.1% with CLEAR Ultra vs 94.6% with the replaced membranes – while operating with 13% lower feed pressure.

The system rejects sulfate, nitrate and several ions effectively.

The system shows a stable operation with moderate cleaning or maintenance

Result

emaser is satisfied with the overall improved system OPEX and the blended water
quality, which allows them to better fulfill the local drinking water requirements.

CLEAR reduces operating feed pressure by 13%.

Products in this solution

CLEAR Ultra BWRO