Israel's Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO)

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Israel's top notch SWRO system helps the country by providing 13% of the country's domestic water needs.

The Seawater Reserve Osmosis is a system that is manufactured to desalinate water in water scarce regions. The SWRO is a system in place to dilute sea water so it can be used for domestic uses such as irrigation. Many countries like China, Australia, and many European countries all use an SWRO system. However, Israel's system out weighs every world's countries system 10 to 1. Distillation is one form of separating fresh water from a salt-water solution. When salt water is boiled, the dissolved salt remains behind as the fresh water vapor is boiled away. Also, the conversion of sali

Israel's Seawater Reserve Osmosis is official called the Ashkelon Desalination Plant, Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Plant.  This plant is the largest in the world. And, in recent news it was voted "Desalination Plant of the Year" in the Global Water Awards.

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The Ashkelon Desalination Plant consists of a membrane desalination units and facilities for seawater pumping, brine removal, raw water treatment, and product treatment. This facility also called for the construction of a gas turbine power station, workshop, and laboratory buildings.

This Desalination Master Plan began in 2000 so it can attempt to solve the water shortage in Israel. This plant has began constructed in a set of various plants along the Mediterranean coast. In a brief description of the plant it is built with high pressure pumps, energy recovery machines, and membrane banks so each facility can function efficiently and independently.

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The facility comprises two identical plants, each consisting of a pumping centre which feeds 16 RO banks. The complete installation holds 40,000 membrane elements and uses optimized, multi-stage RO and boron removal procedures (Water-Tech).

Goals and Achievements

Ashkelon Desalination Plant, Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Plant has a capacity of 320,000m3 per day therefore this plant produces 13% of Israel's domestic water needs. It is also amazing that Israel's system produces and sells the water at the lowest prices in the world for desalinated water. In 2006, the Ashkelon Desalination Plant, Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Plant achieved a mile stone when they produced 100 million m3 of water. Their goal is produce 750 million m3 by 2020 in an attempt to help Israel prevent the water crisis from escalating to a level that is resolvable in the future. 

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The plant uses a three-centre design to increase the amount of sufficient output , reliability and operational flexibility; the comprehensive mathematical modeling performed on the entire system during the design stage enabled commissioning to be fast and straightforward (water-tech).

The contract was formally awarded by the Israeli Ministries of National Infrastructure and Finance, on behalf of the Government of Israel. VID, the special-purpose JVC, comprises IDE Technologies (50% and lead partner), Veolia – Vivendi Water (25%) and Dankner-Ellern Infrastructure (25%) (Water-Tech).