Big is beautiful in Japanese desal

Japan’s research project to design a one million m3/d desal facility has reached the pilot stage.

 Hitachi’s water treatment R&D efforts include a leading role in the plant optimisation and energy recovery elements of Japan’s “Mega-Ton” project, which has now reached the pilot stage.

 
The idea is to radically reduce the cost and improve the environmental performance of desalination by scaling up to a system with a theoretical capacity of 1,000,000m3 ...

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