Watermakers & Spares

Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems, which have been in use for a long time all over the world, are one of the rapidly advancing technologies today. Freshwater is provided by filtering minerals from seawater, which is made to pass under high pressure (55-60 bar) through membranes, which are molecular sieves and contain holes with a diameter of one-thousandth of a micron.

The Minimal Properties Required for a Water Maker Should Be As Follows:

Protection against low and high pressure
System for monitoring product quality and rejecting bad product
Thermal protection of low and high pressure pumps against overload
Valve to gradually increase the pressure from zero to operating pressure at each start
Backwash to protect membranes
pH balancer
Correct design

The Right Design

It is important to use the right membrane with the right pump. For instance, using a 4 inch membrane with 11 or 15 l/min pumps is a design flaw and shortens the life of the membrane.

The features listed above are the minimum that every watermaker should have. These features allow the device to serve for a long time with as little trouble as possible, reducing medium and long-term costs. We recommend our customers to purchase automatic devices, although it is optional. It is forgotten to open and close the pressure valve mostly, as a result of this, the membranes may be damaged or the device does not perform a backwash.