Wednesday
Feb292012
1500 ROWPU
Design Goals
- Maintain Military Requirements
- Reduce Footprint- Current 600 ROWPU 2 463 L Pallet Positions
- Produce More Water
- Enhance Operator Efficiency- Identify Key Constraints to safe and effective ops
- Retain BII commonality as much as possible
- Minimize operator training requirements
- Produce a "Comfortable Unit" for the operator and the maintainer
- Keep Price Point under 200K
1500 ROWPU Testing
- To date over 54,000 gallons of water produced with no failures
- Operated by USAF (49th MMS) as part of operation test on new water distribution system - produced in excess of 1800 gallons per hour for multiple days of 24 hour ops.
- Typical Seawater results
- Inlet TDS 27,000, 12.5 NTU Turbidity
- Outlet TDS 182
- 50 GPM Raw Water Flow
- 25 GPM Product Water Flow
- Operating Pressure 479 PSI
- RO Feed Turbidity 0.19 NTU
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