WO2017010892A1 - Système de dessalement d'eau de mer et procédé permettant de fournir de l'eau ayant une salinité prédéterminée et de maintenir ladite salinité dans un réservoir d'eau ouvert - Google Patents

Système de dessalement d'eau de mer et procédé permettant de fournir de l'eau ayant une salinité prédéterminée et de maintenir ladite salinité dans un réservoir d'eau ouvert Download PDF

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WO2017010892A1
WO2017010892A1 PCT/NO2016/050156 NO2016050156W WO2017010892A1 WO 2017010892 A1 WO2017010892 A1 WO 2017010892A1 NO 2016050156 W NO2016050156 W NO 2016050156W WO 2017010892 A1 WO2017010892 A1 WO 2017010892A1
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Eirik DIRDAL
Terje Samuelsen
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Torbjørn HEGDAL
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  • the invention relates to a system for desalination of saline water from a water supply having a surface, the system comprising an Intake for feed water, such as seawater, from the water supply, and a desalination element for separating said feed water into permeate and concentrate.
  • the desalination element requires an applied pressure in order to drive said separation, and said desalination element is provided below the surface of the water supply such that at least a portion of said required applied pressure is provided from the hydrostatic pressure resulting from the height difference between the surface and the desalination element.
  • the invention further relates to a method for providing water of a predetermined, reduced salinity and to a method for maintenance of a predetermined reduced salinity in an open water reservoir.
  • RO reverse osmosis
  • Patent publication number WO 2006/006942 Al discloses a desalination plant that permits the gravitational flow of seawater to be pre-treated and subsequently to flow into a unit cell submerged below soil surface.
  • Reverse osmosis desalination units are maintained In each unit cell. Reverse osmosis takes place due to hydrostatic pressure difference In the unit cell and the storage reservoir into which the desalinated water flows.
  • a plurality of unit cells can be located In a large vertical shaft column.
  • the reverse osmosis desalination units are removable for maintenance works from the unit cell by hoisting the said RO from the unit cell.
  • RO-units have to be raised above sea level for maintenance purposes.
  • Another disadvantage Is that the prior art desalination systems are rather exposed and difficult to protect against outer influence, both natural and man-made.
  • Even another disadvantage Is that the prior art systems are wet systems, requiring all components to be built for use under water, Including the permeate export pump, which is an essential and vulnerable component of the system.
  • Such systems built for subsea use and resting on the seabed have to be made such that it is possible to pull the entire system onshore, or at least up above sea level, for maintenance.
  • ROVs remotely operated vehicles
  • the invention has for its object to remedy or to reduce at least one of the drawbacks of the prior art, or at least to provide a useful alternative to prior art.
  • the invention is defined by the independent patent claims.
  • the dependent claims define advantageous embodiments of the invention.
  • the invention relates more particularly to a system for desalination of saline water from a water supply having a surface.
  • the system comprises:
  • a desalination element for separating said feed water into permeate and concentrate, said desalination element requiring an applied pressure in order to drive said separa- tlon.
  • Said desalination element is provided below the surface of the water supply, such that at least a portion of said required applied pressure is provided from the hydrostatic pressure resulting from the height difference between said surface and said desalination element.
  • the desalination element is arranged in a dry housing having at least one dry access.
  • the water supply may be the sea or for Instance a saline lake.
  • One of the effects of keeping the desalination element in a dry housing is that it will be protected from the wear and tear of waves and currents, as well as from plants and animals living in the sea. This will again lead to longer lifetime of the components of the desalination element. It is also not necessary to build the equipment for use under water, which means the equipment can be easier to produce, less heavy and then consequently less expensive. Also, for instance pumps can be dry pumps instead of wet pumps. Wet pumps have the disadvantage that the engine must be protected from the surrounding water. The engine may be protected by use of a pressure container which keeps the water and the water pressure out, or the engine may be filled with a liquid, for instance water containing chemicals, for instance glycol, which will leak out to the surrounding water such that refilling is necessary.
  • the desalination elements and export pumps for permeate in the dry underground hall enables the operator to optimize the total system economy within a large span; from maximum capacity utilization of the various elements and consequently high maintenance costs, to low or medium capacity utilization and consequently low maintenance costs.
  • the total system may consist of several desalination elements and this enables adjusting the system export capacity to desalinated water demand.
  • Having at least one dry access to the dry housing makes maintenance of the equipment in the housing easier and less expensive than elevating the entire system to sea level or using ROVs for a wet system.
  • the dry access and the dry housing thus give easy access for performing planned maintenance and easy access for unforeseen maintenance or repair.
  • Any pumps which may be feed pumps upstream of the desalination unit, or export pumps downstream of the desalination unit, which are prone to periodic maintenance and replacement, can also easily be accessed. Pumps in a dry environment are less expensive and much easier to maintain than pumps in a wet environment. In a large-scale desalination facility there will be several desalination elements.
  • the dry housing allows for the various elements to be maintained one by one, such that the desalination process can continue, almost with the same capacity, despite maintenance work.
  • the system may also be designed such that it has a higher capacity than required and will then be able to produce the desired amount of desalinated water also during times of maintenance work.
  • the dry housing may be an underground hall.
  • An underground hall is one possible way of housing the desalination element.
  • An underground hall can be designed for housing large systems.
  • an underground hall is suitable for providing a good environment for people to enter in order to carry out maintenance work, inspection and any other kind of necessary procedures.
  • An underground hall is well suited for protecting the desalination element from wear and tear of waves and currents, from marine vegetation and animal life, as well as from any human interference, for instance sabotage or acts of war.
  • the dry housing may be a hall on the seabed.
  • the hall may be at least partly pre-bullt onshore before it is lowered into the sea.
  • the hall may be built from reinforced concrete or steel or from any other suitable material. The most important property of the building material of such a hall is the ability to withstand hydrostatic pressure. Also decommissioned fixed concrete oil platforms may serve as the subsea dry housing.
  • a hall on the seabed is well suited for protecting the equipment from wear and tear of waves and currents, and also from biological material from marine vegetation and animals.
  • the dry access may be a tunnel. Having access through a tunnel with entrance from above sea level, makes it easy to send in personnel and any necessary equipment, both for setting up the desalination system in the first place, for renewing and maintaining the system, and finally for inspecting the system.
  • the dry access may however also be in the form of transfer of personnel and equipment from a surface vessel.
  • the desalination element may be provided sufficiently far below the surface for providing the required applied pressure. Preferably all, or at least a significant portion, of the required applied pressure to be provided from said height difference. This has the effect of potentially reducing or removing the need for energy-consuming pumps normally needed to pump the seawater through the desalination element.
  • the desalination element may comprise a reverse osmosis membrane which is a well suitable embodiment of the invention.
  • Said membrane may be of any type known in the art, for instance membranes produced by companies like Hydronautlcs, Dow and General Electric. The choice of membrane will depend on the desired salinity of the permeate, and also different membranes may work differently due to for instance the temperature of the water to be desalinated.
  • the dry housing provides a simple solution for protection of reverse osmosis membranes. In order not to destroy the membranes, water has to be stopped from flowing in the wrong direction through the membranes.
  • the dry housing makes it possible to drain the entire system and thus prevent damage of the membranes.
  • the system may further be provided with other water treatment components up- stream of said desalination element.
  • the additional water treatment components may be components known from various SWIT (seawater intake and treatment) technologies, for instance technologies according to the applicant's granted Norwegian patents No. 333868 and No. 335691.
  • SWIT water intake and treatment
  • microfiltratlon technologies for example ceramic filter, or hollow fibre filters, may add valuable quali- ties to the system.
  • Said other water treatment components may be arranged either in the dry housing (together with the desalination element) or in a further dry housing separate from the dry housing. This may increase the system robustness and lower maintenance requirements.
  • the invention relates more particularly to a method for providing water of a predetermined, reduced salinity for a water reservoir, the water being produced by means of a system according to the first aspect of the invention, from a sa- line feed water, such as seawater.
  • the method comprises the steps of:
  • Water of a predetermined salinity may be produced by adjusting the desalination ele- ment in correspondence with the desired salinity. Examples of such adjustments may be changing of type of membrane, flow rate, pressure and flux rate.
  • the predetermined, reduced salinity may be any salinity lower than the salinity of the feed water, depending on what the use of the produced water, or permeate, Is supposed to be.
  • the method may further comprise to desalinate the feed water to a salinity of 0-2000 ppm such that the permeate is usable for irrigation purposes.
  • water used for irrigation should not have a salinity exceeding 2000 ppm.
  • the effect of producing water which may be used for this purpose is that In dry areas or in periods of draught, water for Irrigation may be produced from seawater and thus making food production more reliable.
  • the method may further comprise to desalinate the feed water to a salinity of 0-500 ppm, corresponding to fresh water.
  • fresh water Is a scarce resource many places and it is clear that people have a need for water for many purposes, for example hygiene purposes, and the production of such water from seawater may provide much needed water In areas where this is not so easily accessible.
  • the method may further comprise to desalinate the feed water to a salinity of 0-100 ppm such that the permeate Is usable as drinking water.
  • a salinity of 0-100 ppm such that the permeate Is usable as drinking water.
  • the water reservoir may comprise an open water reservoir, for example an artifldal lake.
  • open water reservoirs may also for instance be swimming pools, fish tanks or aquariums, or even ponds for animals to drink from. It is possible to Imagine the development of an oasis surrounding an artifldal pond.
  • open water reservoir is also induded water reservoirs covered or roofed over partly or completely by for Instance a dome, like a glass dome, or the like.
  • an open water reservoir is also meant multiple water reservoirs which may be provided with water from the same desalination system.
  • the invention relates more particularly to a method for maintenance of salinity level in an open water reservoir. The method comprises the steps of:
  • the excess water may be recycled through a local reverse osmosis plant for producing a permeate and a concentrate, and the concentrate may be returned to the saline water supply, for instance the sea.
  • the permeate may be used for other purposes, for instance reintroduced In the open water reservoir.
  • Produced water of reduced salinity is pumped from the level of the desalination element, which means at least from a level below the surface of the water supply, or more precisely from the ievel of the desalination element.
  • the removed excess water could be recycled by running It through a desalination system dose to the open water reservoir before returning the concentrate of high salinity to the sea and the permeate to the open water reservoir. This could reduce the volume of water needed to be pumped from the desalination system below sea level. This Is of course depending on the distance and difference In altitude between the open water reservoir and the location of the desalination element, since a "local" desalination system close to the open water reservoir also requires some energy.
  • the concentrate may not necessarily be returned to the sea, but may be collected in any other suitable location for instance a depleted water reservoir on the ground or underground.
  • the invention relates more particularly to a method for providing water of a predetermined, reduced salinity for a water reservoir, the water being produced by means of a water desalination system, from a saline feed water, such as seawater.
  • the method comprises the steps of:
  • the method in accordance with the second aspect of the invention is not necessarily limited to the system in accordance with the first aspect of the invention, I.e. It may be using other water desalination systems as well.
  • the invention covers such variants as well.
  • the Invention relates more particularly to a method for maintenance of salinity level in an open water reservoir.
  • the method comprises the steps of:
  • Fig. 1 shows a desalination system wherein the desalination element Is arranged in an underground hall
  • Fig. 2 shows a desalination system wherein the desalination element is arranged in a housing on the seabed;
  • Fig. 3 is a plane view seen from above of the mutual connections between the components in a system according to the invention.
  • Fig. 4 is the system of figure 3 with an additional desalination plant.
  • FIG 1 shows an example of a system 1 for desalination of saline water from a water supply 2, for Instance seawater, for producing water of lower salinity than the sea- water.
  • the water supply 2 having a surface 21 in the following referred to as sea level 21.
  • An intake 3 for feed water is in this embodiment placed at sea level 21 or at least close to the sea level 21.
  • Below sea level 21, in this case underground, a dry housing 7 is provided below sea level 21, in this case underground.
  • the dry housing 7 houses a desalination element 6 which for instance may be one or more reverse osmosis units comprising membranes.
  • the feed water entering the system through the intake 3 is led through for example a pipeline 31 from the Intake 3 to the desalination element 6 in the housing 7.
  • At least part of, preferably a considerable part of, the power required for the desalination process In the desalination element 6 is provided by the hydrostatic pressure resulting from the height difference between the surface 21 and the desalination element 6.
  • the desalination element 6 Is provided with an outlet 4 for permeate, which is water with a salinity lower than the salinity of the feed water.
  • the permeate Is pumped, by means of export pumps 10, through a pipeline 41 to a water reservoir 9. It must be understood that the two pumps 10 shown in the drawing are meant for illustrative purposes only, meaning that the location and number of pumps 10 may differ from what Is shown.
  • the pumps 10 and any other components in the system 1 which require added power, other than the already mentioned hydrostatic pressure, will typically be driven by electrical motors which may get their power from any kind of known power plants like fossil-fueled plants, biomass plants, nuclear plants, hydro-electric plants, wind power plants, geothermal plants, solar power plants and so on.
  • the desalination element 6 is provided with an outlet 5 for concentrate.
  • the concentrate will leave the system 1 through the outlet 5 at a pressure almost enabling return to feed water intake level through a pipeline 51.
  • a low-duty pump 101 is required for the concentrate to be returned to feed water Intake level, by compensating for the friction loss.
  • the concentrate need not necessarily be returned to the feed water intake level, but may be returned to the water supply 2, for instance the sea, at a different level than that of the feed water intake 3.
  • the concentrate may even not be returned to the sea, but may be led to a deposit, for instance an underground deposit or a land deposit (not shown).
  • the water reservoir 9 may be an open water reservoir, as shown here, or a closed water reservoir (fig. 2).
  • a dry access 71 for example a tunnel, connects the dry housing 7 to the surface and makes it possible for personnel and equipment to enter the dry housing 7.
  • FIG 2 shows an example of the system 1 according to the invention, where the dry housing 7 is located on the seabed and connected with the ground level through a dry access 71 in the form of a tunnel.
  • the tunnel may be an underground tunnel as shown, or a tunnel put on the seabed, a so-called immersed tube, or similar.
  • the dry access 71 may even be a combination of different elements, like for instance partly an underground tunnel and partly an immersed tube. Access to the housing 7 on the seabed may be from below the housing 7 If desired.
  • the system 1 is provided with other water treatment components 8 upstream of the desalination element 6.
  • the other water treatment components 8 are located in the same dry housing 7 as the desalination element 6.
  • the other water treatment components 8 may be located in a housing separate from the housing 7 of the desalination element 6 or even in connection with the intake 3 of feed water.
  • Such other water treatment components 8 may be components for disinfection and filtration of the feed water, or components for any other desired water treatment.
  • the feed water intake 3 may be located at the sea bed upstream of the dry housing 7.
  • the water reservoir 9 Is shown as a partly buried, closed water reservoir. It must be understood that the open water reservoir 9 (fig. 1) and the dosed water reservoir 9 (fig. 2) may take any suitable form.
  • the closed water reservoir 9 may also be completely burled or placed on the ground, or wherever else it is desired. As mentioned earlier, the open water reservoir 9 may also be roofed-over or the similar.
  • an open water reservoir 9 could be a saline lake in a desert-like inland area.
  • the seawater Intake 3 and desalination element 5 will naturally be located at the coast.
  • the permeate i.e. water with reduced salinity for the lake
  • the lake may be of any desired size, for example as large as 250 km 2 with a depth of 3-5 meters.
  • the evaporation from a lake of this size may be as much as 4 mm/day, which means that the maintenance volume, I.e. the volume of water which needs to be added, may exceed 1 million m 3 /day.
  • a saline water reservoir 2 for example the sea, is at its boarder or coast provided with a water intake 3 for feed water.
  • Said intake 3 could also be provided on the seabed.
  • the Intake 3 may be provided with water treatment components 8 like for Instance a disinfection unit, which may be an electrochlorinator wherein zodium hypochlorite is produced by electrolysis and mixed with the water entering in the water Intake 3.
  • the water may be exposed to the chlorine for a period of for instance 1-2 hours in a large still room in order to allow both particle sedimentation and accurate control of the chlorine concentration.
  • the intake 3 may be provided with a unit for secondary killing of any surviving microorganisms after the chlorine treatment.
  • Said other treatment components 8 are known from the applicant's SWIT technology and will not be described further herein. It must be understood that the intake 3 may also be merely an intake, without any further treatment components 8.
  • the feed water subsequently enters the desalination element 6 In the dry housing 7 through the pipeline 31.
  • a return line 51 for concentrate i.e. water of a higher salinity than the feed water, which runs back to the saline water reservoir 2.
  • a line 41 representing a pipeline for transport of permeate, i.e. water of lower salinity than the feed water, said lower salinity being a predetermined salinity adjusted to the desired salinity level of an open water reservoir 9 to which the line 41 runs. Since fresh water will evaporate from the open water reservoir 9, the water reservoir 9 needs to be refilled.
  • FIG 4 the other treatment components 8 are shown in the dry housing 7 together with the desalination element 6.
  • the pipeline 31 from the intake 3 consequently runs to the treatment components 8.
  • the water runs through a tube, a channel or any other suitable connecting means to the desalination element 6.
  • a concentrate is returned, by means of a low-duty pump 101 (see fig. 1) to the sea 2 through a pipeline 51, and a permeate is pumped to the open water reservoir 9 through a pipeline 41.
  • a return line 91 from the open water reservoir 9 said return line 91 having the purpose of draining the water reservoir 9 of at least some of the water having a salinity higher than the desired salinity, as mentioned above.
  • Said returned water may be led to a local desalination plant 11 for recycling before the permeate from this desalination plant 11 is either returned to the open water reservoir 9 or used for other purposes.
  • the concentrate from the desalination plant 11 will be returned to the sea through the pipeline 112. It must be understood that the local desalination plant 11 may be by-passed or only used for part of the returned water from the open water reservoir 9.

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L'invention concerne un système (1) de dessalement d'eau de mer, le système comprenant : - une admission (2) d'eau d'alimentation, telle que l'eau de mer, - une sortie (3) de perméat ; - une sortie (4) de concentré ; - un élément de dessalement (5) pour séparer ladite eau d'alimentation en perméat et concentré, ledit élément de dessalement (5) nécessitant une pression appliquée afin d'entraîner ladite séparation, et ledit élément de dessalement (5) étant disposé en dessous du niveau de ladite admission (2), de telle sorte qu'au moins une partie de ladite pression appliquée requise est fournie à partir de la pression hydrostatique résultant de la différence de hauteur entre ladite admission (2) et ledit élément de dessalement (5), l'élément de dessalement (5) étant disposé dans un boîtier sec (6) ayant au moins un accès sec (7). L'invention concerne également un procédé pour fournir de l'eau de salinité réduite prédéterminée pour un réservoir d'eau (6), et un procédé pour le maintien du niveau de salinité dans un réservoir d'eau ouvert.
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