Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited

(A group company of Indian Oil )

DESAL PLANT OPERATION

DATE:
 PROJECT COST FOR
DESALINATION PLANT

• LSTK-1 & 2 - RS.240.0 CR

• 110 KV SWITCH YARD - RS.6.37 CR

 PLANT LOCATION

• DESALINATION PLANT LOCATED AT

URNAMEDU VILLAGE.
NEAR KATTUPALLY
APPROX. 22 KMS FROM CPCL
 PROCESS FLOW CHART

Sea Water 5.8 MGD DESALINATION PLANT

Coagulant &
Dosing of Chlorine aids dosed
(0.5 ppm TO 1.0 ppm)
Pump House to Desal
Plant – 16 Kms.
Travel time – 1 Hr.

Stilling Chamber Flash Mixer Flocculator

Sea Water Pump House

Lamella Type 14 Nos. Gravity Filter Water

clarifier Sand Filters Storage Tank

Cartridge
Filters
(4 Nos.)
Sludge bed Dosing of Anti-
Scalant

110 KV Yard
Degasser
Tank
Feed To Refinery - 17 Kms.
RO Pilo t
p la nt
RO High RO Banks Permeate Dosing of NaOH
Pressure Pumps (2324 Membranes Tank & Chlorination for
(4x275 m3/hr.) pH correction
 CAPACITY OF THE PLANT

• The plant is envisaged to desal 5.8 MGD.

i.e. 26366.8 CuM/day.
• The plant consists of four banks (skids).
• The capacity of each bank is 275 CuM/hr
• Total capacity of all banks = 1100 Cum/hr
 PROCESS DESCRIPTION
The entire Plant premises consists of four sections:

1. Pre- treatment

2. RO Plant Area

3. Post -treatment

4. Electrical Switch yard area

 PRE-TREATMENT PLANT
The Pre-treatment Plant consists of:
1. Stilling Chambers
2. Flash Mixer
3. Flocculator
4. Lamella Clarifier
5. Gravity Sand filters (GSF)
6. Chlorination System
7. Chemical Storage &Dosing System
8. Filter water (FW) and Permeate water tank
 STILLING CHAMBER

Water from sea water intake pump house is pumped to

stilling chamber at distance of 4 Kms. Sea water shall

enter stilling chamber from the bottom of all the

turbulence in water shall get removed in stilling chamber

and the water flow shall become laminar.

 FLASH MIXER

The outlet water of each parshall flume

shall be led to the down stream flash mixer.

Here Ferric chloride is dosed for

Coagulation or un-dissolved impurities.

 FLOCCULATOR

Sea water after coagulation overflows into

flocculator wherein polyelectrolyte is added

for flocculation of cogulated particles.

 LAMELLA CLARIFIER
The clarifier consists of a series of inclined over lapping plates which are

arranged to form a separate sedimentation chamber of adjacent plates. As

the feed stream moves upward, solid settle downward by the plates

descending a short distance onto the surface area provided by the plates.

The clarifier water then flows to Gravity sand filter and deposited

precipitate collected bottom of the lamella clarifier.

 GRAVITY SAND FILTERS

The out of lemella clarifier water

transferred to GSF by gravity flow through

RCC channel for further removal of residual

suspended and colloidal particles.

FILTERED WATER TANKS
Filtered water from GSF flow to filtered water
storage tank by gravity.
Water is pumped to cartridge filters by feed
pumps.
The feed water will be passed through a cartridge
filter, which removes fine suspended particles.
After cartridge filtration, water is pumped to
permeate tank for storage.
From permeate tank water is transferred to
CPCL.
 PARAMETERS
THE DETAILS OF PARAMETERS
DETAILS UNIT SEA WATER PRODUCT WATER
FLOW M3/HR 3284 1100
pH - 8.2 5.0 - 7.0
TDS ppm 38762 < 350
Turbidity NTU 25 - 50 <1
Sodium ppm 12082 < 150
Chlorides ppm 21199 < 220
 CHEMICAL DOSAGE
SL.NO. CHEMICAL DOSAGE
1 Gas Chlorination
2 Cl2 shock dosing
3 Ferric chloride
4 Polyelectrolyte
5 Hcl
6 Sodium Hexameta phospate
7 Sodium bisulphate
8 Sodium Hydroxide
DOSING LOCATION
Sea water intake
Sea water intake
Stilling chamber/post treatment
Flash mixer
Flocculator tank
Inlet of Cartridge filter
Inlet of Cartridge filter
Inlet of Cartridge filter
outlet of Degasser
 POTABLE WATER

• BORON REMOVAL FILTER ---> LINE

STONE FILTER ---> DRINKING
WATER

• DAILY PRODUCTION OF POTABLE

WATER IS 168 M3 / DAY
ELECTRICAL SWITCH YARD

 110 kv Power Supply for 5.8 MGD

Desalination plant has been derived
from Melur (Near Minjur) 110 kv TNEB
Sub-station.
 HT Service connection for the De-
salination Plant is sanctioned for 7700
kva as maximum Demand.
Thank You