This is a skill building course designed to teach participants what is Reverse Osmosis and how does it work, what are the main components of any RO plant, how can you run safely your plant and what are remedy action need to be taken to restore your plant efficiencies and performance. In addition the participants shall learn how to operate and maintain their plant in the most cost effective way.

O & M managers, production managers mechanical & electrical engineers, chemists, RO operators, maintenance engineers, maintenance technicians, QA & QC engineers.

Source of feed water.

Water desalination main processes:‐

• Reveres Osmosis.
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• Ion exchange.
• Electro dialysis.

Filtration process:‐

• Micro filtration.
• Ultra filtration.
• Nano filtration.
• Reveres Osmosis.

Theory of reverse Osmosis.

Reveres Osmosis terminology.

Definitions‐RO process.

Factors and parameters related to RO process.

Membranes:‐

• Membranes configurations and types.
• Spiral wound membrane.
• Overview.
• Construction.
• Separation.
• Fluid dynamics.

Reveres Osmosis plant:‐

• Feed water intake system.
• Pre‐treatment system.
• Desalination system.
• Post treatment system.
• Operating data.
• Operating procedures.
• Troubleshooting.

Fouling:‐

• Types of fouling.
• How to prevent fouling.

Scaling:‐

• Nature of scaling
• Prevention of scale formation.

Chemical cleaning:‐

• Timing for cleaning.
• Cleaning system.
• Types of cleaning.
• Cleaning procedure.
• Cleaning chemicals.

Main equipments & devises are using in water desalination R.O. Plants:‐

• Pumps , high pressure pump and centrifugal pump
• Air compressors and pneumatic valves.
• Meters /flow & quantity.
• PH, cond. & ORP devices.

Operation & Maintenance

• Introduction to Maintenance Strategy
• Operation procedures
• Daily parameters recording
• Establish KPI’s in your RO plant
• Daily parameters monitoring
• High Pressure pump problems & maintenance
• Energy recovery Device problems & maintenance
• Change cartridge filters procedure
• Change membranes procedure
• Feed Pump maintenance
• Submersible pump maintenance
• Pump Alignment
• How to calculate pump & ERD efficiencies
• RO plant normalization
• How to predict membranes’ fouling
• Brief of RO projection & normalization software

Administrative "OJT"

• How to maintain a proper & accurate daily log report
• Housekeeping
• Preparation of Material requisitions, work order, etc.
• Plant store inventory record, auditing, receiving, issuing
• Bi weekly plan

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing a minimum of 80% of the total course duration.