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