Feature

Issue No. 39 - February/March 2008

Industrial flow cut to a trickle

After revolutionising processes at one of SA’s biggest water consumers, water treatment and desalination firm OsmoFlo is challenging big business in SA to help reduce industry’s drain on mains water.

A desalination plant recently installed at Penrice Soda Holdings’ Osborne plant is saving SA one gigalitre of water per year - the equivalent of 10,000 households’ annual water usage.

“OsmoFlo’s desalination plant has exceeded our expectations,” says Roy Doveton, GM Chemical Operations at Penrice.

“The plant supplies 65% of our company’s total water needs, which saves the equivalent of 2.5 megalitres per day coming from the River Murray.

“We are now looking at expanding the RO plant to provide 100% of our water requirements.”

The Reverse Osmosis Plant, manufactured and installed by OsmoFlo, uses water from the Lower Port Willunga Formation Aquifer, which is extracted through two bores.

Extensive studies of the ...

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