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FOR
COAL BASED THERMAL POWER
PLANT
NEAR SEA
1.0 PURPOSE
This write up describes the details of Water Treatment System required to
supply fresh water to meet plant service water requirements, potable water
requirements for plant and personnel usage and demineralized water for the
boiler cycle makeup for a Coal Based Thermal Power Plant. The Plant is
considered at Sea Shore and raw water is taken from the sea. The author is
having the hands on experience in detailed design of the various sea water
desalination plants. The details of RO based desalination plant described
here are of international standard and based upon the previous installed
and designed project for the Coal based thermal power project.
2.0 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
The source of water to the Power Plant is taken from the intake structure
which is located near sea shore. Considering the plant is near sea then Sea
water makeup pumps, which shall be located in the intake structure, supply
sea water to the Cooling Tower (as makeup), Hypo Chlorination Plant, Ash
Water Booster Pumps apart from the Water Treatment System.
In the intake structure, chlorine solution shall be dosed and hence
chlorinated sea water will be delivered to the inlet of Water Treatment
System from the common discharge header of the Sea Water Makeup
Pumps.
2.1 Pretreatment System
The sea water passes through the Pretreatment system consists of Dual
Media Filters (DMF) followed by Polishing Sand Filters (PSF) for the removal
of particulate organic and colloidal matter from the incoming sea water. The
upper layer of anthracite removes large suspended particles which
otherwise may blind the bottom layer of sand. Before the sea water is
passed through the Pressure Filters (DMF & PSF) it is dosed with coagulant
(FeCl3) and polymer so as to prevent colloidal fouling in the RO membrane
surface. Coagulant agglomerates small particles to form larger particles,
which are more easily removed in the Pressure Filters.
Figure: Dual Media Filters (DMF) & Pressure Sand Filters (PSF)
The filtered water will be collected in Filtered Water Basin. An
underground /above ground Pump House will be provided where the Filtered
Backwash Pumps and SWRO Feed Pumps will be located.
Backwashing of the Pressure Filters will be done with the Filter Backwash
Pump and the water will be supplied from Filtered Water Basin. The
backwash waste water of the Pressure Filters will be disposed off adequately
to the sea water outfall or some other discharge channel. Back wash waste
water can be disposed off to the seawater outfall by gravity or by using
Filtered Backwash Waste Water Sump and associated Filter Backwash
Waste Water Transfer Pumps.
Normally Pressure Filters will be operated simultaneously and one (1)
Pressure Filter will be on stand-by mode. The filtered sea water from the
Pretreatment System will be fed to the Desalination System for producing
treated water for various applications.
2.2 Desalination System
The prime purpose of Desalination System is to remove majority of the
dissolved solids from filtered sea water and make it fit for Potable Water
usage and feed for Demineralization System.
Filtered water from Filtered Water Basin shall be pumped to SWRO Unit via
SWRO Feed Pump. The water will be first passed through SWRO Micro Filters
where suspended solids above 5 micron (nominal) size will be removed.
These filters also protect SWRO High Pressure Pumps in event of media
carry over from Polishing Sand Filter.
Various chemicals such as acid (HCl), SHMP and sodium bi-sulphite will be
dosed prior to SWRO Micro Filters so as to optimize the water parameters
before feeding to SWRO membranes.
Acid (HCl) will be dosed so as to aid in pH control and ensure that calcium
carbonate does not precipitate in the reject brine stream within the
membranes. Acid converts carbonates to carbon dioxide gas thereby
reducing the carbonate concentration and the probability of precipitation of
calcium carbonate in the reject brine stream.
Anti-scalant sequestrates are used for maintaining anti-scalant property in
the RO system. Technical grade SHMP or any commercial inhibitor products
will be used.
Prior to the SWRO Micro Filter, the feed water is de-chlorinated by the
addition of SBS, thus preventing chlorine attack on the membranes, which
may otherwise cause irreversible damage to membranes. A residual
chlorine analyzer is located downstream of the cartridge filter to control of
SBS dosing rate.
After this, the water should meet the guidelines of feed to the RO
membranes such as SDI< 5, pH, residual chlorine, etc.
If the incoming sea water to SWRO Unit does not meet the guidelines of
feed to the RO Unit, the SWRO Units will be automatically shut down and
this off-spec water will be dumped to the seawater outfall/other discharge
channel until stable operation of the Pre-Treatment System produces feed
water of acceptable quality.
In SWRO Unit, the water is boosted up to the desired pressure by high-
pressure pumps and is delivered to the RO permeate and reject streams by
pressure. 35% of the feed sea water and a small quantity of total dissolved
solids are transported across the membranes to the permeate stream( In
some cases it may go up to 40%). The remaining 65% concentrated sea
water flows out through the brine out-fall line to the energy recovery
turbine, which is provided to recover the pressure energy available in the
reject brine stream.
The reject water of SWRO Unit can then be disposed directly to the sea
water outfall /discharge channel therefore the water coming out from
energy recovery turbine should have sufficient pressure (i.e. 6 kg/cm2 a),
which is required to dispose to the sea water outfall.
2 SWRO Inlet
3 SWRO Unit
4 BWRO Unit
pH 6.0 ~8.0