UF in pretreatment for seawater desalination: annual capacity by supplier - CHART

This month’s chart comes from data collected by CH2M Hill on the growth of ultrafiltration as a pre-treatment method for seawater reverse osmosis.

It was a bit of a minority attraction until 2005, but the market has been growing steadily since, and 2008 looks set to be the breakthrough year. We would estimate that it has a share of around 30% of the seawater RO market so far this year, up from 4% in 2005. At the moment, it makes most sense where ...

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