Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hideaki Yamagata

Futoshi Kurokawa

Takeshi Matsushiro

Katsuya Yokokawa

Ryo Namba

Koichi Matsui

Seiichi Murayama

Hiroyuki Tokimoto

Yuka Hiraga

According to one embodiment, a membrane filtration system includes a raw water tank, a pretreatment membrane module, a raw water feed line, a high-pressure RO membrane module, a high-pressure line, a preceding power recovery unit which pressurize the pretreated water by transmitting the pressure of the concentrate to the pretreated water, a succeeding power recovery unit which pressurize the raw water by transmitting a remaining pressure of the concentrate to the raw water, a concentrate discharge line, a first pressure transmission line communicating to the power recovery unit by being branched from the high-pressure line, a second pressure transmission line communicating to the power recovery unit by being branched from the raw water feed line, and a valve provided in the drain line to regulate a discharge of the concentrate from the power recovery unit in accordance with a pressure loss in the pretreatment membrane module.

Membrane filtration system

According to one embodiment, a seawater desalination apparatus includes a pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure of seawater which is supplied to a reverse osmosis membrane that is configured to separate seawater into fresh water and condensed seawater and to discharge the fresh water and the condensed seawater, a sensor configured to measure a flow amount of the fresh water which is discharged from the reverse osmosis membrane, a sensor configured to measure a flow amount of the condensed seawater discharged from the reverse osmosis membrane or a flow amount of the seawater discharged from a booster pump, a sensor configured to measure a flow amount of the seawater which is supplied to a power recovery device, and a controller configured to execute control based on values measured by the sensors.

Seawater desalination apparatus

According to one embodiment, a seawater desalination plant system includes a plant unit that produces fresh water from seawater. The seawater desalination plant system predicts quality of seawater for each predetermined time (for example, 1 hour) for a certain definite period (for example, 24 hours) based on a past actual measurement value of quality of seawater; creates a plurality of proposed plans of fresh water production quantity during the definite period in each of which fresh water production quantity required for the definite period is allotted to the each predetermined time; calculates, with respect to the proposed plans, electric power consumption rates for desalination using the predicted quality of seawater, the fresh water production quantity and a previously obtained recovery rate; and obtains an optimum plan of fresh water production quantity with a minimum electric power consumption rate from the proposed plans.

Seawater desalination plant system

According to one embodiment, a apparatus includes a controller configured to obtain values measured by a first sensor and a second sensor, receive pH target values at the entrance of a first reverse osmosis membrane and at the entrance of a second reverse osmosis membrane, and use a transfer function from the acid injection to pH at the entrance of the first reverse osmosis membrane, a transfer function from the alkaline injection to pH at the entrance of the first reverse osmosis membrane, a transfer function from the acid injection to pH at the entrance of the second reverse osmosis membrane, and a transfer function from the alkaline injection to pH at the entrance of the second reverse osmosis membrane, to control an injection rate of the acid injected from a first injection device and an injection rate of the alkali injected from a second injection device.

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Urayasu, Japan

Hideaki Yamagata