Industrial Reverse Osmosis Systems

AMPAC USA supplies turnkey industrial reverse osmosis systems for commercial and industrial installations in more than 150 countries.

Product ranges
4
Models
24
Rated output
150 – 100,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis

About Industrial Reverse Osmosis Systems

Sizing a system? Send your flow rate and a feed-water analysis, and an AMPAC engineer will work out the configuration with you.

Leading global organizations should not have to worry about the availability of steady, reliable, easy-to-maintain reverse osmosis systems for producing clean, potable water to cover their full range of requirements.

AMPAC USA supplies turnkey industrial reverse osmosis systems for commercial and industrial installations in more than 150 countries. Ask us for a quote and we will estimate the total cost of ownership for your application.


Industrial Reverse Osmosis solutions keep the manufacturing processes pure. For Industrial RO or Industrial Water Treatment, Call AMPAC USA on 909-548-4900

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Reviewed by Sammy Farag, VP of Engineering at AMPAC USA.

Industrial Reverse Osmosis Systems By Capacity

Industrial systems are specified by daily output first, then by feed chemistry. The range below is what is currently built and listed; anything between these points is a configuration question rather than a different product.

ModelSKURated output
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 6,000 GPD 22.7m3/DayAP6000-SM-LX6,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 8,000 GPD 30.2m3/DayAP8000-LX-18,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 10,000 GPD 1.6m3/hrAP10K-LX10,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 20,000 GPD 3.18m3/hrAP20K-LX20,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 25,000 GPD 4.0m3/hrAP25K-LX25,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 30,000 GPD 4.75m3/hrAP30K-LX30,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 60,000 GPD 9.5m3/hrAP60K-LX60,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 80,000 GPD 12.6m3/hrAP80K-LX80,000 GPD
Industrial Reverse Osmosis 100,000 GPD 15.8m3/hrAP100K-LX100,000 GPD

Listed capacities run from 6,000 to 100,000 GPD across 12 systems in this section. Feed TDS, required recovery and available footprint move the specification as much as output does. Send a recent water analysis with a quote request and sizing starts from the real feed. Request a quote.

How an industrial RO system is configured

Three decisions set the shape of an industrial plant: the array, the recovery target, and the pretreatment ahead of the membranes. Everything else follows from those.

Array and staging

Membranes sit in pressure vessels arranged in stages. A 2:1 array sends the concentrate from two first-stage vessels into a single second-stage vessel, so the water rejected by the first pass gets a second chance. Larger plants run 3:2:1. Staging is what lifts overall recovery without pushing any single vessel past its flux limit, and it is the reason two plants with identical membrane counts can behave very differently.

Recovery target

Recovery is the share of feed water that leaves as permeate. Brackish and well water plants usually run 50 to 75 percent. Seawater runs 35 to 45 percent, because the osmotic pressure of the concentrate rises steeply as you push further. Every point of extra recovery concentrates the scale-formers left behind, so the ceiling is set by the feed analysis, not by preference: silica, calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate each impose their own limit.

Pretreatment decides membrane life

Pretreatment is chosen against the feed water, not from a catalogue.

  • Turbidity and suspended solids - multimedia filtration, or ultrafiltration where SDI stays stubbornly high.
  • Hardness - a softener, or antiscalant dosing. Softening suits smaller flows and high hardness; antiscalant suits larger flows where salt regeneration becomes impractical.
  • Chlorine - carbon or sodium bisulfite. Chlorine oxidises polyamide membranes, and that damage is permanent.
  • Iron and manganese - oxidation and filtration upstream. Both foul membranes quickly once they precipitate.

When to clean

Plants are cleaned on normalised data, not on a calendar. A 10 to 15 percent fall in normalised permeate flow, a 10 to 15 percent rise in differential pressure across a stage, or a similar rise in salt passage each indicate that a clean is due. Waiting past those thresholds makes fouling harder to reverse.

What moves the capital cost

Feed TDS and the recovery target together set membrane area and pump duty. After that: materials of construction, stainless versus FRP vessels, the level of instrumentation and automation, redundancy such as duty and standby trains, and whether the plant needs to be skid-mounted or containerised for a site with no building.

AMPAC industrial systems run from 6,000 GPD to over 100,000 GPD. Send a feed water analysis and a target flow, and an engineer will work through the array, recovery and pretreatment with you. Request a quote.