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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2011
Yoram Cohen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Panagiotis D. Christofides, Westwood, CA (US);
Anditya Rahardianto, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Alex R. Bartman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Aihua Zhu, Shoreline, WA (US);
Han Gu, Moorpark, CA (US);
Larry Xingming Gao, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yoram Cohen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Panagiotis D. Christofides, Westwood, CA (US);
Anditya Rahardianto, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Alex R. Bartman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Aihua Zhu, Shoreline, WA (US);
Han Gu, Moorpark, CA (US);
Larry Xingming Gao, Los Angeles, CA (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a filtration skid configured to generate a filtrate through at least one of microfiltration and ultrafiltration. The apparatus further includes a desalination skid fluidly connected to the filtration skid. The desalination skid is configured to perform reverse osmosis desalination on the filtrate to generate a permeate, where the filtrate travels from the filtration skid to the desalination skid without traversing a storage tank. In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a controller, where the filtration skid and the desalination skid are integrated to provide self-adaptive operation of the filtration skid and the desalination skid in response to control by at least one of a supervisory controller and a local controller. In one embodiment, the control responds to at least one of temporal variability of feed water quality, a permeate production capacity target, and a permeate quality target.