Operation and Maintenance of SWRO Plants
Date: 10 - 11 February 2020
Time: 9am - 5pm
Venue: e2i, 80 Jurong East Street 21, Singapore 609607
THIS COURSE IS ALREADY FULLY TAKEN UP ! NO MORE SLOTS
Course Participants:
Plant operators, supervisors, field managers, maintenance personnel.
Course Objectives:
To impart fundamental and practical knowledge of the operation and maintenance aspects of Sea Water RO plants with emphasis on plant troubleshooting.
Course Outcome:
Participants of this course will have a deeper understanding of the process requirements for successfully operating and maintaining a SWRO plant. Participants will acquire step-by-step knowledge on identifying, correcting and preventing operational problems in a typical SWRO plant. They will discuss the current case of a SWRO plant.
Learning methods: Classroom lectures, Q&A, discussions and case studies.
Course content with modules:
The course will contain following modules. Any specific requirement shall be incorporated.
Course Modules:
- What are the operating fundamentals?
- What are the SWRO Operating Parameters?
- How is performance of RO determined?
- How to Normalize the SWRO operating data?
- How to identify SWRO problems?
- Front end
- Tail end
- Throughout the system
- Quality
- Expected issues faced with SWRO membranes
- Organic fouling (Why, How to prevent, How to remove)
- Inorganic fouling (Why, How to prevent, How to remove)
- Biological fouling (Why, How to prevent, How to remove)
- How to identify membrane damage?
- Chemical
- Mechanical
- When and how to set right pre-treatment?
- What are the precautions required in engineering of SWRO?
- What is the role of Instrumentation and Controls?
- Typical cleaning requirements of SWRO
- When to clean?
- Steps to evaluate cleaning effectiveness?
- What should Operations look out for?
- What should Maintenance look out for?
- Membrane storage/preservation guidelines – short and long
- Other case studies
- Discussions, Q&A and Feedback