Water – The resource (Kopie 3)

Reverse osmosis systems are the trend in using water economically and efficiently. Previously so-called RO plants produce pure water only for some special applications. However, in future these plants will be used in many industrial and municipal facilities. This is because the water resource is becoming scarcer and more expensive.

Kurita, one of the market leaders in the chemical water treatment worldwide, is involved in the challenge and presents  as a new technology to reduce the energy consumption, to ensure a maximum availability of pure water and to extend the lifetime of membranes.

RO plants supply almost any water quality so that it can be used for various processes. The membrane technology purifies raw water of different quality: well water, surface water or drinking water, but also waste water and sea water.

The sophisticated concepts for water treatment with provide a customized product performance, increase the operational safety and reduce the costs. By means of system evaluations, membrane autopsies as well as performance tests, Kurita's own research laboratory establishes treatment concepts enabling smarter operations.

Applications already are to be found in the beverage and paper industry, for example in Germany's largest industrial reverse osmosis system.

For all the fascination for their innovative technology Kurita does not forget, that water is the most important nutritional component for the survival of the mankind. Particularly in regions with low amounts of water the basic service is not assured.

With it has been succeeded to operate large and complex RO plants more efficient and to save valuable drinking water. Within the Deutschen MeerwasserEntsalzung e.V. (DME) (German Seawater-Desalination Association) Kurita exchanges information for the optimization of membrane applications.

Some products of Kurita are awarded with the quality seal of NSF and are suitable for the conditioning of RO systems for drinking water treatment.

One of the stated objectives of Kurita is to save the available water resources by means of intelligent treatment concepts.