Key Elements to a Successful Membrane Plant Implementation

Original Broadcast Date:	Jun 23, 2009
Speakers:	Roger K. Noack, P.E., S.P.A., Desalination Practice Lead and Senior Project Manager/Senior Professional Associate, HDR Richard Stratton, P.E., West Region Drinking Water Business Class Lead and Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Professional Associate, HDR

Low pressure membranes are becoming the preferred drinking water treatment process to meet consumer demand and regulatory pressure for better quality drinking water along with tightening budgetary constraints. As a relatively new treatment process, the drinking water industry is learning that the old ways of doing things has to change to accommodate the use of low pressure membranes. This presentation will focus on the unique features and challenges that a municipality will face when choosing to use low pressure membranes for their water treatment plant. The topics to be discussed are as follows:

• Pilot testing
• Procurement
• Design & Coordination
• Membrane fouling management
• Membrane fiber breakage management
• Commissioning and Startup
• Operator Training
• Collecting and Recording Data to Maintain Operations
• Membrane Terms and Calculations

Low pressure membranes are becoming the preferred drinking water treatment process to meet consumer demand and regulatory pressure for better quality drinking water along with tightening budgetary constraints. As a relatively new treatment process, the drinking water industry is learning that the old ways of doing things has to change to accommodate the use of low pressure membranes. This presentation will focus on the unique features and challenges that a municipality will face when choosing to use low pressure membranes for their water treatment plant.

Roger K. Noack, P.E., S.P.A. Desalination Practice Lead and Senior Project Manager/Senior Professional Associate HDR
Richard Stratton, P.E. West Region Drinking Water Business Class Lead and Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Professional Associate HDR

Koch Membrane Systems :
Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. has been a global leader in separation and filtration products for more than 30 years. A designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art membrane cartridges and elements, as well as complete membrane systems, KMS products are specified for the most demanding applications. To enhance membrane performance, KMS offers a line of antiscalants and cleaning chemicals, and provides a wide range of maintenance and technical service programs. The company has supplied membranes for more than 15,000 systems installed around the world, serving the food processing, life sciences, and general manufacturing industries, as well as providing potable water and wastewater treatment technologies for communities of all sizes.
Based in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Koch Membrane Systems is a Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC company. For more information on Koch Membrane Systems and its full line of membranes and accessory products, visit www.kochmembrane.com, call +1-978-694-7000 or write to info@kochmembrane.com.