Producing Filters of Water Desalination Machines to Save Country $35m Annually
Head of Industrial Development and Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO) Mr. Mohsen Salehinia says producing each filter of water desalination machine will save the country some $500 and it will be totaled around $35m annually.
He said that the annual capacity of the project for producing membrane desalination filters is 70,000 module of one-meter filter with 8-inch diameter. He added that the total investment on this project is 9m euros as well as 750b rials with participation of the private sector and direct occupation for 75 people.
Meanwhile director for planning and development of IDRO Mr. Mohammad Nouri Amiri said that the main application of these filters is in water purification systems with using the reverse osmosis (RO) technology and it can also be used in desalination of drinking water, water required by the industries, petrochemical and food industries.
He added that the output of desalinated water of each filter equals to almost 50% of input salty and bitter water. He noted that desalination through membrane filters is the most advanced and cheapest method of getting healthy water from the saline and bitter water that in the past this technology was in the monopoly of a few countries like Japan, the U.S. South Korea and China.