Case studies

In the middle of 2022, Kiribati's Government declared a national emergency in response to an ongoing drought and depleting water reserves in the Bonriki water lense. As such, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Green Climate Change Fund (GCCF), the World Bank and the Government of Kiribati (GoK) invited suitable companies to tender for the STWSP Desalination plant, to be known as ‘McKenzie’.

Pirate Life Brewing were restricted to batching their brew cycles due to insufficient permeate water supply from their reverse osmosis plant. Osmoflo were engaged to supply operation and maintenance to the RO plant to address the poor performance and reliability issues. During the assessment of the plant in the initial period of O&M activities, Osmoflo proposed an upgrade to the system to increase capacity and availability.

There may be oil and gas in the Cooper Basin, a remote area near the Qld and SA borders, but the only water source is both saline and heavily contaminated with hydrocarbons. In addition, the temperature fluctuates between 90 degrees Celsius and near freezing. For Santos to use the groundwater for process and drinking needs at its Moomba, Ballera, Jackson & Tarbat fields, extensive treatment was required.

As the capital city of the driest state in Australia, water is always a major talking point in Adelaide. With sometimes scarce drinking water supplies, it’s often left to proactive local industries to lead the way in adopting measures for conservation and Adelaide’s iconic Coopers Brewery is no exception. As part of their move to a substantially larger site, the team at Coopers actively sought out water-saving measures, including the replacement of mains water with groundwater. Due to the slightly saline groundwater source, Coopers' management turned to Osmoflo, who are committed to delivering a circular future for water, having previously provided a 200 kL/d reverse osmosis plant at their original Leabrook facility, for assistance with water treatment.

The South Pacific Community (SPC) identified several SWRO plants across the Outer Islands of Kiribati that were performing sub-optimally. As such, Osmoflo was asked to submit a bid and provide its expertise to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainability Environment (MISE), assessing the condition of the Outer Islands water treatment plants in place.

In the middle of 2022, Kiribati's Government declared a national emergency in response to an ongoing drought and depleting water reserves in the Betio township. To address this crisis, both New Zealand and Australia extended financial support for an emergency desalination unit aimed at supporting the water supply in South Tarawa.

Osmoflo was engaged as a water partner to process/purify mine-affected water for utilization in their underground coal mine on the state-of-the-art longwall operations. The feed water was changed without prior knowledge, causing irreparable damage to the reverse osmosis membranes in the "Osmoflo" water treatment system.The demand for purified water underground is critical. For the mine to continue operations the membranes needed to be replaced immediately.

With an existing Sea Water Reverse Osmosis plant that was becoming increasingly unreliable, this project was urgently needed at Ebeye to provide potable water to the island population.

Located 125km west of Sydney, Mt Piper Power Station provides 1,400MW of power into the NSW grid. The station relies on an evaporative cooling system through twin hyperbolic cooling towers to provide the necessary cooling capacity for steam condensate. To replace the water lost during the cooling process, the local river and repositories are drawn upon. The challenge was to pre-concentrate the draw-down water prior to treatment by the brine concentrators to deliver a sustainable water source to the station.

The Gorgon project is Australia’s largest energy related project, made up of a consortium of major energy players.

With its integrated Mine, Rail and Port facilities, Roy Hill has the capacity to deliver 55Mt of iron ore per annum. This must meet stringent quality standards and in particular the ore must be washed to remove chloride based salts before shipment. The water available to the project is suitable only for the first 4 years of mine life and is predicted to deteriorate over time with increasing chloride based salt levels. Because of this, Roy Hill require a water treatment solution to remove some of the chloride from the water coming from the aquifer to enable final ore washing.