Water treatment system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10434472-B2
Application number	US-201615164990-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 26, 2016
Priority date	May 29, 2015
Publication date	Oct 8, 2019
Grant date	Oct 8, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a seawater desalination system including reverse osmosis membrane modules each including: a reverse osmosis membrane; and a pressure vessel installing the reverse osmosis membrane, and configured to obtain permeated water and concentrated water using the reverse osmosis membranes housed in the reverse osmosis membrane modules by supplying seawater to the reverse osmosis membrane modules. The seawater desalination system includes a module group including the reverse osmosis membrane modules connected together in parallel. The seawater is supplied to each of the reverse osmosis membrane modules by being supplied to the module group through first and second seawater supply routes. The first and second seawater supply routes are each provided with a liquid transport pump configured to supply the seawater flowing through the seawater supply route to the module group.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A water treatment system comprising:
reverse osmosis membrane modules each including a reverse osmosis membrane and a pressure vessel installing the reverse osmosis membrane, the water treatment system configured to obtain permeated water and concentrated water using the reverse osmosis membranes housed in the reverse osmosis membrane modules by supplying raw water to the reverse osmosis membrane modules; and
a module group including the reverse osmosis membrane modules connected together in parallel, where inputs of ones of the reverse osmosis membrane modules of the module group are directly interconnected with each other via a connection flow passage, wherein
the raw water is supplied directly to each of the reverse osmosis membrane modules by being supplied to the connection flow passage of the module group through at least a first raw water passage and a second raw water passage coming from a raw water supply, where the first raw water passage is connected to a first end portion of the connection flow passage and the second raw water passage is connected to a second end portion of the connection flow passage, where the first end portion and the second end portion of the connection flow passage are at opposing ends of the connection flow passage; and
the first and second raw water passages are provided with first and second liquid transport pumps, respectively, configured to supply the raw water to the connection flow passage of the module group.

2. The water treatment system according to claim 1 , wherein
at least one of the first and second raw water passages includes an energy recovery device provided therein, and configured to be supplied with the concentrated water discharged from the module group,
the energy recovery device gives pressure energy of the concentrated water to the raw water supplied to the energy recovery device, and
the pressure of the raw water to which the pressure energy is given in the energy recovery device is supplied is raised by at least one of the first and second liquid transport pumps.

3. The water treatment system according to claim 2 , wherein the inputs of other ones of the reverse osmosis membrane modules of the module group are not interconnected with each other via the connection flow passage.

4. The water treatment system according to claim 3 , wherein the concentrated water in the module group is discharged from the module group through a plurality of flow passages.

5. The water treatment system according to claim 2 , wherein the concentrated water in the module group is discharged from the module group through a plurality of flow passages.

6. The water treatment system according to claim 1 , wherein the inputs of other ones of the reverse osmosis membrane modules of the module group are not interconnected with each other via the connection flow passage.

7. The water treatment system according to claim 6 , wherein the concentrated water in the module group is discharged from the module group through a plurality of flow passages.

8. The water treatment system according to claim 1 , wherein the concentrated water in the module group is discharged from the module group through a plurality of flow passages.

9. The water treatment system according to claim 1 , comprising:
a controller to control operation of the first and second liquid transport pumps so that output pressures of the raw water on output sides thereof, are substantially equal in pressure to each other.

10. The water treatment system according to claim 1 , wherein the inputs of other ones of the reverse osmosis membrane modules of the module group are not directly interconnected with each other via the connection flow passage, via at least one of: the connection flow passage being disconnected; and a valve provided in the connection flow passage.

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• Kitamura Kotaro
• Yoshikawa Shinichi
• Matsuura Masayuki
• Oshikiri Takanori
• Okawa Yusuke

Classifications

• B01D2317/04

  Elements in parallel · CPC title

• B01D2313/243

  Pumps · CPC title

• B01D61/10

  Accessories; Auxiliary operations · CPC title

• Y02A20/131

  Reverse-osmosis · CPC title

• B01D61/12

  Controlling or regulating · CPC title