DOW™ Specialty Membranes

Ultra-High Pressure RO (UHP RO)

XUS180808
XUS180804
XUS180802

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Need for Brine Management

Driver Example

Strict government regulations for power plants in South

Regulatory
Africa, USA and China, mining in Australia

Limited or no options Surface water discharge not possible

Thermal brine treatment requires higher CAPEX and

Cost
OPEX

Water scarcity Remote locations like mines

Risk to run into disasters like Rio Doce (major mine

Public pressure
drainage flooding)
Market and Applications
Minimal Liquid Discharge (MLD, waste water)
 Coal to chemical waste water (China)
 Cooling tower blow down (China, South Africa)
 Flue gas desulfurization
 Land fill leachate
 Produced water in O&G
 Waste water in the chemical industry
 Mine drainage

Salt production
 From industrial processes or waste streams
 From seawater

Recovery of valuable compounds

 Glycols from deicing on airports
 Concentration of juice, wine and other food
constituents
 Acid concentration
 Typical Minimal Liquid Discharge (MLD) System

Industrial WW

Equalization basin Lime softening Sand filter UF IX

(optional) (optional) (Particle removal) Softening, hardness and COD
reduction *

BWRO SWRO A To discharge or reuse OPTIONAL

6-8% TDS
Evaporator Crystallizer

B 6 – 8% TDS to conventional
downstream treatment 20-25% H2O
0.5-2% 3-4% TDS
TDS TDS DOW™ UHPRO
NF direct to Crystallizer
10-20%
Permeate to Permeate to C TDS
reuse reuse

Max 6% NaCl Permeate to For Reuse Solids

for reuse reuse e.g. max
UHP RO replaces evaporator
10% NaCl
partially ( ) or
completely ( )
UHP RO: Ultra High Pressure Reverse Osmosis
* IX: alternatively also between RO/NF stages
Dow UHPRO: Addressing Unmet Needs

Minimizes cost of downstream processes

• Reduction of brine volume reduces size of downstream processes e.g. evaporator
Lower CAPEX
Lower OPEX (Energy and replacement cost)
Simplifies process
• Smaller or no evaporator
• UHP RO stage complements BW RO and SW RO in upstream stages

Provides a solution
UHPRO provides a comprehensive solution together with other DWPS technology like
Ultrafiltration, Self Cleaning Filters, Ion Exchange Resins, Brackish Water Reverse
Osmosis and Seawater Reverse Osmosis.
 DOW™ Specialty Membranes UHP RO Element
Key Features :

• max operation pressure: 120 bar / 1740 psi • Special element construction including polysulfone permeate
(@ max 30˚C); 83 bar @ 45C water tube
• Membrane area (8”): 285 sqft / 27m2 • High pressure DOW FILMTEC™ SW30 flat sheet
• 34 mil feed spacer • Pro-rated material and workmanship element warranty
• Flow*: 6,400 gpd / 1 m3/h • Available in 8040, 4040 and 2540 design
• Stabilized NaCl rejection: 99.7 % • Fits into standard size pressure vessels
* at SWRO std test conditions: 32,000 ppm NaCl, 5 ppm Boron, 800 psi (5.5 MPa), 77°F
(25°C), pH 8, 10% recovery. • Pressure vessels require a 120 bar specification.

Special
Trade Product Outer
GMID conditions / Length Tube Membrane Area
Name Diameter
Facts
inch inch inch sqft m2
XUS180808 99037884 120bar (30C) 7.9 40 1.125 (ID) 285 26.5

XUS180804 99037891 120bar (30C) 3.9 40 0.75 (OD) 60 5.6

XUS180802 99037890 120bar (30C) 2.4 40 0.75 (OD) 18 1.7

Operating and Cleaning Limits
Maximum Operating Temperature 113ºF (45ºC)
Maximum Operating Pressure at 30ºC 1,740 psig (120 bar)
Maximum Element Pressure Drop 15 psig (1.0bar)
Temperature Pressure
pH Range, Continuous Operation 2 – 11
degC bar psi
pH Range, Short-Term Cleaning (30 min) 1 – 13 5
Maximum Feed Silt Density Index (SDI) SDI 5 10
15
Free Chlorine Tolerance < 0.1 ppm 120 1,740
20
25
30
35 103 1,494
40 90 1,305
45 83 1,200
 Element Dimensions

Type A B C Type A B C D
(in.) (mm) (in.) (mm) (in.) (mm) (in.) (mm) (in.) (mm) (in.) (mm) (in.) (mm)
XUS180808 8040 40.0 1,01 1.125 ID 29 ID 7.9 201 XUS180804 4040 40.0 1,016 1.03 26 0.75 19 3.9 99
6 XUS180802 2540 40.0 1,016 1.03 26 0.75 19 2.5 63.5
1. Refer to Dow Water & Process Solutions Design Guidelines for multiple-element
applications. 1 inch = 25.4 mm 1. Refer to Dow Water & Process Solutions Design Guidelines for multiple-element
2. Element to fit nominal 8-inch (203-mm) I.D. pressure vessel. applications. 1 inch = 25.4 mm
2. Element to fit nominal 4-inch (102-mm) and 2.5-inch (63.5-mm) I.D. pressure vessel,
respectively.
3. 4040 and 2540 elements are not provided with couplers. Dow Water & Process
Solutions sells coupler part number 89048 for use in multiple element housings . Each
coupler includes two 2-210 o-rings, Part number 89255.
 Warranty
As per standard in specialty and
process applications:
• One year
• Element warranty
• Material and workmanship
warranty only
• No performance warranty
(neither initial nor long term)
• No system warranty

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 Treatment of Cooling Water Blowdown (CWBD)
Challenge
• Removing water from the cooling tower is required to prevent over concentration of salts (cooling water blowdown)
• Primarily in regions where water scarcity regulation requires zero liquid discharge treatment of CWBD to save water and avoid discharge
• CWBD is often saturated with CaSO4, Ca(HCO3)2 and silica
• Downstream evaporation is very CAPEX and OPEX intense
• A pre-concentration step can reduce the cost of evaporation significantly.

Solution
RO, in combination with UHP RO, can
Cooling
tower
Dow RO Products
concentrate CWBD water up to 10% of TDS Lime softening, UF
which is > 90% reduction in volume in most silica removal
DOW FILMTEC™ brackish water
cases. and seawater RO elements for
upstream ultra-high pressure RO
UHP RO, as the last step prior to evaporation, Max 83 bar, fouling resistant
can reduce the required size of an FILMTEC™ flat sheet
evaporator by > 50%.
Make DOW™ Specialty Membrane
up
Pretreatment is required to remove scalants water XUS1808 product line
UHPRO BWRO and
prior to the high recovery RO system. SWRO IX
Up to 120bar at 30ºC, 34mil feed
IX
(Polishing (Softening and spacer, DOW FILMTEC™ SW30 flat
To ZLD COD removal)
Key Benefits mixed
bed) (Evaporator and
sheet,
Crystallizer)

• Debottlenecking of existing plants

• Reuse water for boiler feed
• Significant reduction of OPEX and CAPEX
by downsizing evaporator
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 Reuse of a Battery Plant Waste Water
Challenge
• A key raw material for the lithium iron battery industry for cars is ferric sulfate
• Wastewater of battery factories not only contains sulfate but also a high concentration of NH3-N
• Following more and more stringent environmental protection in China, these compounds are strictly banned from discharge which requires
ZLD solutions.

Solution Dow RO products

Conventional UF
RO, in combination with UHP RO, can pretreatment
concentrate (NH4)2SO4 to up to 20% prior Waste Water DOW FILMTEC™ brackish water
to being fed into mechanical vapor from Battery and seawater RO elements for
recompression (MVR) thus reducing the Production upstream RO
size of MVR by > 50%. Max 83 bar, fouling resistant DOW
FILMTEC™ flat sheet
Make up
Key Benefits water DOW™ Specialty Membrane
back to XUS1808 product line
• Complying with regulatory requirements process
UHPRO BWRO and Up to 120bar at 30ºC, 34mil feed
by implementing a reliable and affordable SWRO spacer, DOW FILMTEC™ SW30 flat
technology sheet
To MVR and
• Recover (NH4)2SO4 as a fertilizer crystallizer 
• Reuse water for the process fertilizer

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 EXAMPLE: 60 m3/h UHPRO Plant

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3

BWRO SWRO UHPRO

Permeate
60m3/h 65% recovery 39 + 8 + 5 m3/h
30 bar
TDS: 1.5% 40% recovery 40% recovery
21 m3/h
75 bar 12.5 m3/h
TDS: 3.6% 120bar
TDS 6%

24 elements
36+24 elements 18 elements @ 8 L/m2/h
@ 18.6 L/m2/h @ 13 L/m2/h
Break
tank Concentrate/Brine
7.5 m3/h
Break Final TDS: 10%
tank (To thermal
1 vessel in the scheme stands for, 6 elements each treatment)
Thank
You
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Appendix

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 DOW™ Specialty Membranes – Portfolio
Product Features Applications Markets
• COAL TO CHEMICAL
PRESSURE RATING • ZLD – BRINE MANAGEMENT • INDUSTRIAL WW
UHP RO • FGD • TEXTILE
120 BAR / 1740 PSI
UP TO
• INDUSTRIAL/TEXTILE WW • O&G
(ultra-high pressure RO) UNIQUE •
• INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
• POWER

HT RO* TEMPERATURE RATING

• SUGAR CONCENTRATION
UP TO 80C AND 30BAR • CANE SUGAR
(high temperature RO, extra • VARIOUS PHARMA • PHARMA
wide feed spacer, sanitary HYPERSHELL APPLICATIONS
design, HyperShell) UNIQUE RATINGS

NF 245 WITH • VISCOUS STREAMS IN F&B •

NF 48 HYP 48 MIL SPACER • SOLIDS CARRYING WW AND •
FOOD AND BEVERAGE
INDUSTRIAL WW
(extra wide feed spacer NF, HYPERSHELL PROCESS STREAMS • MILK CONCENTRATION
sanitary design, HyperShell) • MILK CONCENTRATION • BIOPROCESSING
NF MWCO

TEMPERATURE RATING • SUGAR PURIFICATION

HT NF UP TO 70C (CANE/XYLOSE/GLUCOSE)
• SUGAR
• CHEMICAL PROCESS
(high temperature NF) NF MWCO • SULFATE REMOVAL

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 Dow Specialty Membranes - Specifications
Flow at
Active Min
Trade Element Element std. test Key Special
Element membrane rejection at
Product GMID diameter length in conditions operating design
Type area in sqft std. test
name1) in inch inch in gpd limits features
(m2) conditions
(m3/d)

XUS180808 99037884 8 40 8040 285 (27) 6,400 (24)

UHP RO XUS180804 99037891 4 40 4040 60 (5.6) 1,350 (5.1) 99.702) 120 bar Polysulfone tubes
(at max 30C)

XUS180802 99037890 2.5 40 2540 18 (1.7) 400 (1.5)

8 inch: full sanitary
XUS120308 99052649 8 38 8038 235 (22) n.a.3) design

HT RO 99.702) 80C 4 inch: end caps,

(at max 30 bar) no trimmed leaves
XUS120304 99052648 4 40 4040 42 (3.9) n.a.3) Both: HyperShell,
Polysulfone tubes

Identical
XUS290908 99037882 8 38 8038 270 (25) n.a.3) n.a. to DOW
Sanitary design
HYPERSH
NF 48 Mil (trimmed leaves,
ELL™ HyperShell)
XUS290904 99037883 4 38 3838 54 (5.0) n.a. n.a. NF245-
8038

XUS290508 99037892 8 40 8040 320 (30) n.a.3) n.a. Polysulfone tubes

HT NF 70C (8040 and 4040)

(at max 28 bar) and end caps
XUS290504 99037906 4 40 4040 70 (6.5) n.a. n.a. (8040)

1) The trade product names are temporarily and will be replaced by commercial names
2) 32,000mg/l NaCl, 25C, 8% recovery, 800 psi
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3) RO/NF Process elements are wet tested but min flow or rejection is typically not required