Seawater is the most
aggressive service there is.
Large-bore seawater systems, high-pressure RO trains, and materials engineering for plants that have to run for thirty years.
Texas is running out of water at the same time it is adding industrial and data center load faster than any state in the country. Desalination has moved from a study to a procurement, and the Gulf Coast is where it is happening.
A desalination plant is a piping and pressure problem. Thousands of feet of large-bore intake and outfall. High-pressure reverse osmosis trains. Brine handling in a service that destroys the wrong material in a matter of months.
What we design and engineer for Desalination.
- 01 Large-bore seawater intake and outfall piping
- 02 High-pressure RO train piping and pressure systems
- 03 Materials selection and corrosion engineering for seawater and brine
- 04 Pumping system mechanical and structural engineering
- 05 Support systems for thermal and dynamic loading
- 06 Process safety and code compliance
Why our background maps to this.
Corrosion engineering in seawater is not a new discipline for us. It is offshore engineering. Our people have specified materials for subsea tie-backs and offshore production systems in West Africa and Brazil, where the cost of a wrong material call is a platform shutdown.