Solar-Powered Desalination Field Notes
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Lessons learned from Solar Oasis deployments — PV sizing, battery integration, and managing variable DC power for RO trains in off-grid installations.
Practical articles on desalination, energy recovery, and industrial water treatment from the ForeverPure engineering team.
ForeverPure has been engineering custom water treatment systems since 1997. This blog is where our application engineers share what they have learned in the field — honest comparisons of equipment, real numbers from real plants, and the kind of design guidance we wish we had had when we sized our first SWRO train. New articles publish monthly. If there is a topic you want covered, tell us.
Engineering
A practical engineering review of the FEDCO HPB-60 hydraulic pressure booster. RotorFlo technology, Super Duplex 2507 construction, installation pitfalls, and side-by-side comparison against the ERI PX and HPB-130.
November 4, 2026 · ForeverPure Engineering Team
Engineering
How energy recovery devices brought SWRO specific energy from 8 kWh/m³ down to under 3 kWh/m³. Pressure exchangers versus turbochargers, booster pump sizing, and a real-world economic case.
November 11, 2026 · ForeverPure Engineering Team
Technical Guide
Three serious choices for seawater service. Performance, fouling resistance, iLEC versus LD spacer trade-offs, and which membrane to specify when boron rejection, energy, or biofouling dominates.
November 18, 2026 · ForeverPure Engineering Team
Technical Guide
Ten steps from feed water analysis to a complete brackish water RO design. Recovery selection, antiscalant chemistry, array configuration, pump sizing, pretreatment, controls, and a worked 25,000 GPD example.
November 25, 2026 · ForeverPure Engineering Team
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Lessons learned from Solar Oasis deployments — PV sizing, battery integration, and managing variable DC power for RO trains in off-grid installations.
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The full timeline of a containerized SWRO project — specification, factory acceptance testing, shipping, site arrival, and first permeate.