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Experience in operating seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants has been accumulated mainly for warm seas with temperatures from 15 to 40 °C. There is insufficient information on the operation of installations located in arid and Arctic zones. The analysis of the results of long-term operation of reverse osmosis installations of the Caspiy Distillation Plant LLP (Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan) with a capacity of 20 thousand m3/day at temperatures from 0.2 to 10 °C was performed. The change in the temperature dependence of the specific permeability of membranes over time is presented. The drop in the productivity of the installations from the design value averaged 23.5 and 39%, over 3 years and 5 years of operation, respectively, which is in good agreement with the planned decrease in membrane permeability in the traditional pretreatment system. The quality of the desalinated water meets the requirements. Despite the problems in the preliminary treatment of seawater, the degradation of membranes does not go beyond the permissible design errors. The reverse osmosis method can be successfully used for desalination of seawater at temperatures close to freezing, which is important for the operation of desalination systems in the Arctic region and on ships.
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Baranov, A.E., Kazantseva, N.N., Erokhin, M.A., Baetova, Z.S. (2023). Features of Reverse Osmosis Membranes Operation in Conditions of Extremely Low Water Temperature. In: Rybnov, E., Nikolaev, A., Skotarenko, O. (eds) Proceedings of ARCTD 2021. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 206. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99626-0_35
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